Lady for a Day (1933)
Ned Sparks: Happy
Quotes
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Happy McGuire : That should be a cinch.
Butler : I beg your pardon, Sir.
Happy McGuire : I said that should be a leadpipe cinch!
Butler : If I had choice of weapons with you, Sir, I'd choose grammar!
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Happy McGuire : I'm goin' over to the insane asylum and hobnob with a few sensible people.
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Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : If we gotta dig up a husband for Annie, let's to it and get it over with.
Happy McGuire : Yeah, now you gotta dig up a husband for her.
Happy McGuire : [shouting] Where you gonna get a husband just like that?
Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : What about YOU, Happy?
Happy McGuire : Me?
Missouri Martin : Oh, that's a swell idea. I think you'd be just precious.
Happy McGuire : That's a wonderful idea; there's one thing stands in the way: I've got a wife that's very fussy. She don't like for me to go around marryin' people! I know how unreasonable that must sound to you, but she's very funny that way.
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John the Butler : Whom do you wish to see, sir?
Happy McGuire : Is this Rodney Kent's apartment?
John the Butler : Uh, yes, sir, but he's away...
Happy McGuire : Ah, what gave you the idea I'd give a hang where he is?
John the Butler : Well, I... I assumed...
Happy McGuire : Don't go around assuming so much. It'll get you into trouble.
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Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : For years Annie's been lucky to me, ain't she?
Happy McGuire : What?
Dave the Dude - 'Dave Manville' : Well, what kind of luck would I have if I passed her up at a time like this?
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Missouri Martin : [bringing in her entourage to work on Apple Annie] Say, when they get through with her, she's gonna look every bit as good as me.
Happy McGuire : The idea is to make her look like a lady.
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Happy McGuire : Say, listen, Babcock wore out the seats of two pair of pants just sitting around on his El Fideldo.
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Happy McGuire : Enough tears around here to float a battleship.
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Happy : Babcock wore out the seats of two pairs of pants just sittin' around on his "El Fideldo".
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Happy : Don't make me laugh.
Missouri Martin : If I could make you laugh, I'd go out and get drunk.
Happy : You couldn't make a hyena laugh!
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Happy McGuire : You probably talked them to death.
Judge Blake : In your own vernacular my dear friend Nertz to you!
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Happy : I'm a first class monkey if l can see how you can win pots by buying apples from old dames.
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Happy McGuire : [reading Rodney Kent's telegram in response to requesting the lending of his apartment] The whole thing sounds insane to me... but, go ahead, use the apartment. My only request is make certain no one puts mustaches on the paintings.
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Happy McGuire : You got a great racket Annie. You get a couple more suckers like the Duke, you can retire in a year.
Apple Annie : Aw, pull up your chin, Happy. You're liable to step on it.
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Happy McGuire : Well, I give up. When Louis the Lug becomes the ambassador to Turkey, I don't wanna be around anymore.