The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)

Madge Evans: Polaire Quinn

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• Polaire : Do my eyes deceive me or is she really alone?

  Schatzi : And without a man.

  Polaire : I should think she'd be afraid of catching cold.

• Polaire : I can always tell real pearls - even when they're such little ones!

• Jean Lawrence : You know that I'm for you and I know that you're for me and there's no friends like old friends.

  Polaire : It's the three of us.

  Jean Lawrence : Against the men.

  Schatzi : [singing]  Almost like old times...

• Dey Emery : Always together, thicker than thieves, and out for no good. I call them the three musketeers of riverside drive.

  Polaire : Faith.

  Schatzi : Hope.

  Jean Lawrence : Charity.

  Jean Lawrence , Polaire , Schatzi : Ta da!

  Boris Feldman : You should be on the stage.

  Jean Lawrence , Polaire , Schatzi : Oh, we've been.

  Polaire : Ladies of Follies.

• Jean Lawrence : What's Pops to you?

  Polaire : Well, he's my fiancé. Not that we're engaged or anything like that.

• Polaire : Have him bring along some nice friend of his who's fun who'd like to meet a nice girl who's fun too.

• Jean Lawrence : What's Pops to you?

  Polaire : Well, you wouldn't expect a nice girl like me to leave a kind, old gentleman like Pops sitting alone at the Metropolitan Club without a friend to call his own.

• Schatzi : It's not bad, this, huh?

  Polaire : I'll tell you more about it in the morning.

  Schatzi : What do you mean?

  Polaire : You can tell an awful lot about the liquor you drink the night before by where you find your hat the next morning.

• Polaire : All New York to pick from and you had to bring a piano player.

• Polaire : Take me down.

• Jean Lawrence : Well, anyhow.

  Schatzi , Polaire : Yeah, anyhow.

  Jean Lawrence : Anyhow.

• Polaire : Now, come on, Jean. You buck up.

• Jean Lawrence : When people have fun together, that's something, isn't it.

  Polaire : Sometimes I think that's all there is.

  Jean Lawrence : So do I... sometimes.

• Jean Lawrence : I'll change any habits of mine that don't suit you, the day you change your face for what I can stand.

  Polaire : You won't have to stand anything about me any more than I do about you, you poor blonde wop!

  Jean Lawrence : Don't you call me a blonde wop!

  Schatzi : Stop scrapping, both of you! She can't help it if she's Italian.

• Jean Lawrence : Say, whatta you do?

  Boris Feldman : I play the piano.

  Jean Lawrence : Is that all?

  Boris Feldman : Well, I took tambourine lessons, but I gave them up when I was very young.

  Jean Lawrence : Oh, dear - a comic as well.

  Polaire : He happens to play a little better than anyone else in the world.