- Jacqueline Webster: There's a man coming, Papa.
- Bud Webster: Maybe another newspaper man.
- Jacqueline Webster: Willodean, Caroline, there's a man coming.
- Bud Webster: You keep your jaws lanced this time, hear!
- Paladin: Ladies, as Cicero once remarked, and I translate very freely, there can be too much even of a good thing. I think I better accompany your father into town. Excuse me.
- [And he makes a temporary escape]
- Doris Gulovan: See, you're just as stupid as you are ugly!
- Bud Webster: Listen who's talking. I've seen prettier creatures on a cobbler's bench!