{"id":85015,"date":"2026-08-06T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/?page_id=85015"},"modified":"2026-10-04T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:26:02","slug":"his-girl-friday-quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/quotes\/his-girl-friday-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"His Girl Friday > Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><b>Walter<\/b>: He looks like that fellow in the movies &#8211; Ralph Bellamy!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Walter<\/b>: You&#8217;ve got an old-fashioned idea divorce is something that lasts forever, &#8217;til death do us part.&#8217; Why divorce doesn&#8217;t mean anything nowadays, Hildy, just a few words mumbled over you by a judge.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<b>Sheriff Hartwell<\/b>:: Aiding an escaped criminal and a little charge of kidnapping.<br \/>\n<b>The Mayor<\/b>: Well, looks like about ten years a piece for you two birds.<br \/>\n<b>Walter<\/b>: Does it?<br \/>\n<b>Hildy<\/b>: If you think you&#8217;ve got The Morning Post licked it&#8217;s time for you to get out of town.<br \/>\n<b>The Mayor<\/b>: Whistling in the dark. Well that isn&#8217;t going to help you this time. You&#8217;re through.<br \/>\n<b>Walter<\/b>: Listen the last man that said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat.\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Hildy<\/b>: Walter, you&#8217;re wonderful, in a loathsome sort of way.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Hildy<\/b>: Now, get this, you double-crossing chimpanzee: There ain&#8217;t gonna be an interview, and there ain&#8217;t gonna be a story. And that certified check of yours is leaving here with me in twenty minutes. I wouldn&#8217;t cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up. If I ever lay my two eyes on you again, I&#8217;m gonna walk right up to you and hammer on that monkey skull of yours &#8217;til it rings like a Chinese gong!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<b>Walter<\/b>: What do you think I am, a crook?<br \/>\n<b>Hildy<\/b>: Yes.\n<hr \/>\n<b>Walter<\/b>: There&#8217;s been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey&#8230; here.<br \/>\n<b>Hildy<\/b>: Oh, I jumped out that window a long time ago.\n<hr \/>\n<b>Walter<\/b>: Look, Hildy, I only acted like any husband that didn&#8217;t want to see his home broken up.<br \/>\n<b>Hildy<\/b>: What home?<br \/>\n<b>Walter<\/b>: &#8220;What home&#8221;? Don&#8217;t you remember the home I promised you?\n<hr \/>\n<b>Walter<\/b>: What were you when you came here five years ago &#8211; a little college girl from a school of journalism. I took a doll-faced hick&#8230;<br \/>\n<b>Hildy<\/b>: Well, you wouldn&#8217;t take me if I hadn&#8217;t been doll-faced.<br \/>\n<b>Walter<\/b>: Well, why should I? 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