The Lady Eve > Quotes

Jean: You see, Hopsi, you don’t know very much about girls. The best ones aren’t as good as you probably think they are and the bad ones aren’t as bad. Not nearly as bad.

Jean: Do you know Charles?
Sir Alfred: Oh, is he the tall backward boy who’s always toying with toads and things? Yes, I think I have seen him skulking about.
Jean: He isn’t backwards. He’s a scientist.
Sir Alfred: Oh, is that what it is? I knew he was… peculiar.

Jean: Boy, would I like to see you givin’ some old harpie the three in one!
Colonel’: Don’t be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.

Charles: And I have no right to be in your cabin.
Jean: Why?
Charles: I’m married.
Jean: But so am I, darling. So am I.