Love Before Breakfast Quotes

Love Before Breakfast is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . Love Before Breakfast ended in 1970.

It features Edmund Grainger as producer, Arthur Morton (composer) in charge of musical score, and Ted Tetzlaff as head of cinematography.

Love Before Breakfast is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Love Before Breakfast is 70 minutes long. Love Before Breakfast is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Carole Lombard as Kay Colby, Preston Foster as Scott Miller, Janet Beecher as Mrs. Colby, Cesar Romero as Bill Wadsworth, Betty Lawford as Countess Campanella, and Richard Carle as Brinkerhoff.

Love Before Breakfast Quotes

Carole Lombard as Kay Colby

• (Carole Lombard) "You stop yelling at me. You, you; button pusher."
• (Preston Foster) "You bet I'm a button pusher and I'm gonna keep right on being a button pusher until the day I die and, what's more, you're going to like it."

• (Carole Lombard) "This isn't going to be any 'Taming of the Shrew', you know. I'm not gonna come crawling after you've broken my spirit."
• (Preston Foster) "I'll take my chance."
• (Carole Lombard) "It's a long one."

• (Carole Lombard) "Incidentally, what's happened to the Count? Where is he?"
• (Preston Foster) "Where are the snows of yesteryear?"
• (Carole Lombard) "Where the woodbine twineth."
• (Preston Foster) "That's where the Count is."

• (First College Boy) "Oh, come on Toots, have a drink with me. I crave companionship."
• (Carole Lombard) "You should join a sorority."

• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "You finishing the tea, please?"
• (Carole Lombard) "Yes, Yuki."
• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "Thank you, Miss Kay."

• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "When Japanese girl love Japanese man, she go to him and she say, "I love you, Mr. Miller." Then, everything right away fine."
• (Carole Lombard) "Yes, then everything right away great. Little Japanese girl gets shoved around the rest of her life."
• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "Japanese girls liking to be shoved around."
• (Carole Lombard) "Not this Japanese girl."

• (Charles) "Mademoiselle. Where'd you get this blue eye?"
• (Carole Lombard) "I got the blue one from my mother's side of the family. The black one is a present from a gentleman who's crazy about me."
• (Charles) "Ah, c'est l'amour."
• (Carole Lombard) "Mmm -- What can you do about it?"
• (Charles) "We fix it perfect. If Mademoiselle will sit, please."
• (Carole Lombard) "Yeah."
• (Charles) "First of all, we put on the cold towel. Some astringent maybe. Then some raw beef. Just a small piece."
• (Carole Lombard) "Put the whole cow on if it'll help any."

• (Carole Lombard) "And on top of everything else, you're a hyperthyroid."

• (Carole Lombard) "What do you see Yuki?"
• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "Oh, you going to party, big party, lots of people."
• (Carole Lombard) "Who takes me? Who am I with?"
• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "Lots of people. Many people."
• (Carole Lombard) "Yes, but who's next to me?"
• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "Lady, maybe fat lady."
• (Carole Lombard) "But, what gentleman?"
• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "No gentleman. All ladies. Card party. Oh, you lose money."
• (Carole Lombard) "Isn't there one man in that cup?"
• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "Man? No. No see no man. Oh, you get present."
• (Carole Lombard) "Yes? From whom?"
• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "Lovely present. Jewelry present."
• (Carole Lombard) "Who gives it to me? What is he like? Is he a big man?"
• (Yuki - Kay's Maid) "I not I can say for sure. Always the same eyes. Same; Yes, I sure. Present come from your mother."
• (Carole Lombard) "Yuki, you tell the dullest fortunes."

• (Carole Lombard) "Let me tell you something little Napoleon, this is one time your button pushing isn't going to do you any good."

• (Carole Lombard) "Have you ever been hit with a slot machine?"

• (Carole Lombard) "You're not planning on coming with me, by any chance?"
• (Janet Beecher) "Certainly not. I have better ways to spend my declining weekends, dear."

• (Carole Lombard) "Do you mean to tell me you'd take anything from Scott Miller?"
• (Cesar Romero) "Well, why not? He's my boss, isn't he? Just because you got tight one night and promised to marry him."
• (Carole Lombard) "I wasn't tight."

Preston Foster as Scott Miller

• (Preston Foster) "I've come to take you to the ball."
• (Carole Lombard) "Oh, you have? Well, I hope you can bear up on it, but I'm going with Stuart Farnum."
• (Preston Foster) "I'm sorry, but you're going with me."
• (Carole Lombard) "I told you I was going with Stu."
• (Preston Foster) "Stu? How vulgar. Is that a name or a condition?"
• (Carole Lombard) "That's his name."
• (Preston Foster) "Strange. It's also his condition."
• (Carole Lombard) "He's gonna take me if he has to go on a stretcher."

• (Preston Foster) "I wish you wouldn't go. I wanted to take you to the dog show; and showing the cutest little animals you ever saw. Pekingese you'd be mad about. Oh, you don't like Pekingese. That's right. I remember now. You're definitely not the Pekingese type. You know, the first time I saw you, I said to myself: now, there's a girl who's definitely --"
• (Carole Lombard) "Not the Pekingese type."
• (Preston Foster) "Bulldog, maybe; but, not Pekingese."

• (Preston Foster) "It's a funny world, isn't it?"
• (Carole Lombard) "What's funny about it?"
• (Preston Foster) "Well, the Countess wants to marry me."
• (Carole Lombard) "You're afraid?"
• (Preston Foster) "You want to marry Bill and I want to marry you. Quite a problem, isn't it?"

• (Preston Foster) "Are you actually smiling?"
• (Carole Lombard) "No. I'm only giving my face a rest."

• (Preston Foster) "How do you know so much about women?"
• (Richard Carle) "I'm a bachelor."

• (Preston Foster) "How do I look?"
• (Carole Lombard) "Like a street cleaner."
• (Preston Foster) "Come, come, come now. You can't win me with flattery."

• (Unnamed) "I've been getting the information you asked for on William Wadsworth."
• (Preston Foster) "Oh, well, let's have it."
• (Unnamed) "He's been working for Amalgamated, here, two years as Field Assistant. He's supposed to be engaged to Miss Kay Colby; but, I find that he's also rather; involved; with a lady on 78th Street."

• (Preston Foster) "Is this youngster annoying you?"
• (Carole Lombard) "Not at all."
• (Preston Foster) "Be a good Scout, sonny, and toddle back to your table."
• (Carole Lombard) "I wish you'd stop interfering with my affairs."
• (Preston Foster) "Oh, I didn't know this was an affair."
• (Carole Lombard) "Well, whatever it is, I can do without you nicely."
• (First College Boy) "Madam, is this old gentleman annoying you?"
• (Carole Lombard) "Yes. Very decidedly."
• (First College Boy) "So maybe you'd better totter back to your table."

• (Preston Foster) "Well, Brinkie's off on one of his short stories again. Probably last an hour. He doesn't even know I left him. Still talking."
• (Janet Beecher) "That's cruel, Scott."
• (Preston Foster) "He doesn't care. The other day while he was spinning his favorite yarn at the club his audience changed three times. He never knew the difference."

• (Preston Foster) "You're getting right into that bed, as soon as you get out of that mustard bath."
• (Carole Lombard) "Who do you think you're talking to?"
• (Preston Foster) "You heard what I said. You get into that bed and stay there. I don't want any more annoyance from you."

• (Preston Foster) "Now that we're engaged, I hope we'll see each other occasionally."
• (Carole Lombard) "Whatever is customary, Mr. Miller."

Janet Beecher as Mrs. Colby

• (Janet Beecher) "Kay. Put your feet right back in that mustard. Do you want to catch pneumonia?"
• (Carole Lombard) "I don't care what I catch."
• (Janet Beecher) "Do I have to tie you in this tub?"

• (Janet Beecher) "I've got to get over there. We can't leave them unchaperoned all night."
• (Preston Foster) "Why not? That's what she wants, isn't it?"

• (Janet Beecher) "Scott. Hurry up with the cocktails. I need something to steady my hand."

• (Janet Beecher) "I don't see why I have to tell you everything. I'm free, white and; eh; in my early 40s."

Cesar Romero as Bill Wadsworth

• (Cesar Romero) "Cozy, isn't it."
• (Carole Lombard) "Compact, that's what I like about it."

• (Cesar Romero) "I'm gonna get drunk. Then, maybe I'll know what's going on around here."

• (Waiter) "With Mr. Miller's compliments."
• (Cesar Romero) "Well."
• (Carole Lombard) "Is that so? You can send it back to Mr. Miller with our compliments."
• (Cesar Romero) "No, wait. We can't do that, Kay. He's my boss."
• (Carole Lombard) "Well, he's not my boss."

• (Cesar Romero) "Oh. Be careful, honey. You'll take my cold."
• (Betty Lawford) "I'll take anything from you, darling. My mother used to say, "You'll never get poor from taking.""

• (Cesar Romero) "Be kind of fun if they didn't show up, wouldn't it? Then we could be alone sort of."
• (Carole Lombard) "What do you mean sort of ?"

• (Cesar Romero) "All right, honey, anything you say. From now on, I'm off water and nothing but champagne."

• (Cesar Romero) "It would be kinda fun if they didn't show up, wouldn't it? Then we could, be alone, sort of."
• (Carole Lombard) "What do you mean: sort of?"
• (Cesar Romero) "Well, you know, we're engaged, aren't we?"

Richard Carle as Brinkerhoff

• (Richard Carle) "I tell you, the girl loves you. You don't think she cares anything about this Wadsworth, do you? Now the smart thing to do is just what she doesn't expect. Instead of being sore about him, uh, take the opposite tact. Make him your pal. Build him up. Give him a better job. Take every obstacle out of their way so she can't have the slightest excuse not to marry him. And then, watch her squirm."
• (Preston Foster) "How do you know so much about women?"
• (Richard Carle) "I'm a bachelor."

Betty Lawford as Countess Campanella

• (Betty Lawford) "Poor lamb, I know it hurts."
• (Cesar Romero) "Oh, be careful, honey, you'll take my cold."
• (Betty Lawford) "I'll take anything from you, darling. As my mother used to say, "You will never get poor from taking." Oh, there, baby."

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