Memorable lines from "HOLIDAY INN"

Memorable HOLIDAY INN quotes: 

1)      Listen honey when you flip ‘em those twinkle toes who’s going to be looking at my tie?

2)      Oh, he’s always had that look, it doesn’t mean anything emotionally. It has something to do with his liver.          

 

3)      I love Jim too but, after all, let’s not be too chummy.

 

4)      Ted if I’m not the best manager in the business I’ll eat a garage mechanic’s shirt.

 

5)      That little speech sounds like the crackle of Confederate money.

 

6)      Say- this is swell.  What is it? Homemade peach preserves, I put ’em up myself just before I went into the sanitarium.  Boy do I go for those, They’re great on—or even plain.

 

7)      I don’t think they like this nightclub air.

 

8)      Wait- wait you had better wait for Lila’s.

 

9)      Corsage? No no a dozen, loose, looking like they don’t care.

 

10)  Of course once you’ve told me I was no good I could probably get a job at a bargain basement and like it.

 

11)  This table’s reserved for the band- EXCUSE ME!

 

12)  We seem to be on the 40 cent tour.

 

13)  Well I’ve found that the size of a place doesn’t matter if one has sufficient personality.

 

14)  I’m LINDA MASON.

 

15)  Oh L I N D A Mason.

 

16)  You could probably buy a half interest in this place for a barrel of apples.

 

17)  That wasn’t exactly hay you were throwing either.

 

18)  Oh no I don’t want Ted Hanover I want you, this is New Year’s kid!

 

19)  Have a slug out of the mug.

 

20)  Her name was Conzewella Schlepkiss. She used to play the pinball a lot down at the corner drug store.

 

21)  I’ve got to go turn the roast.

 

22)  Say what is this? A Daisy chain?

 

23)  We were just looking for the back of a girl we don’t know.

 

24)  Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime, but when a man is surprised to hear that he’s going to be married, brother that’s when I go to work with a clear conscience.

 

25)  I’m a tired lone and unhappy man, but I could be happy here helping the two people I like the best.

 

26)  The world doesn’t change.  A gentle smile often breeds a kick in the pants.  But for your sake Linda I’ll be big.

 

27)  Oh that’ll be easy, like peeling a turtle.

Mamie: Why, you ain’t et a bite!

Jim: I’m poutin’ Mamie. Who is this? (pointing to the cooked turkey)

Mamie: That’s Mr. Jones

Jim: Jonesy? I’m sorry. I knew him too well.

Mamie: But you got to eat. The trouble ain’t with that turkey Mr. Jim. It’s you!

Jim: I feel all right. I’m ridin’ high, Mamie.

Mamie: Well, why you close the Inn and sit around like a jellyfish with the misery? Cuz a slicker stole your gal. And you ain’t got fight enough to get her back! Um, excuse me, Mr. Jim, but--

Jim: I tried to keep her here!

Mamie: What kind of keepin’ is that? Nothin’ but tricks! If you went to Hollywood and told Miss Linda how much you loves her and misses her, and told her that the way a lady likes to hear it told, I’ll betcha she’d be the quickest ex-movie star that ever ex’d.

Jim: You’re crazy, Mamie.

Mamie: I’m crazy?! I knows Miss Linda. I knows her like I knows my own kids. Why, she ain’t the fancy type no more ‘n you are. What she wants is what you got right here. But women has to have them things told to ‘em the right way. You could melt her heart right down to butter. . .  if you’d only turn on the heat.

Jim: Mamie, you don’t--you don’t try to take a fella’s gal away from him after he’s bought the ring... Or, as I recall, do you?

Mamie: Now YOU are talkin’.

Jim: Sure! Women has to be told things the right way.

Mamie: Yes sir!