Only Angels Have Wings Quotes

Only Angels Have Wings is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Only Angels Have Wings stopped airing in 1970.

It features Howard Hawks as producer, Dimitri Tiomkin in charge of musical score, and Joseph Walker (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

Only Angels Have Wings is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Only Angels Have Wings is 121 minutes long. Only Angels Have Wings is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

The cast includes: Jean Arthur as Bonnie Lee, Thomas Mitchell as Kid Dabb, Cary Grant as Geoff Carter, Allyn Joslyn as Les Peters, Victor Kilian as Sparks, Pat Flaherty as Mike, and Don "Red" Barry as Tex Gordon.

Only Angels Have Wings Quotes

Allyn Joslyn as Les Peters

• (Allyn Joslyn) "Do you mind, Elena? We're going to move. Coming Geoff?"
• (Cary Grant) "No, this is good enough for me."
• (Bat Kilgallen - MacPherson) "Not so particular, huh?"
• (Cary Grant) "I don't think even you can spoil good liquor."

Jean Arthur as Bonnie Lee

• (Jean Arthur) "You love him, don't you, Kid?"
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Yes, I guess I do."
• (Jean Arthur) "Why can't I love him the way you do? Why couldn't I sneer when he tries to kill himself, feel proud when he doesn't? Why couldn't I be there to meet him when he gets back? Why couldn't I -- What do you do when he doesn't come back when you expect him to?"
• (Thomas Mitchell) "I go nuts."
• (Jean Arthur) "Gee whiz, you're a great help."

• (Jean Arthur) "They must love it. Flying, I mean."
• (Sparks, radioman) "Why do you think they come down to this kind of a place?"
• (Jean Arthur) "It's like being in love with a buzz saw."
• (Sparks, radioman) "Not much future in it."
• (Jean Arthur) "What is there about it that gets them?"
• (Sparks, radioman) "I'm not a flier myself. Hey, you'd better ask the Kid. Miss Lee. Mr. Dabb."
• (Jean Arthur) "How'd you do?"
• (Sparks, radioman) "She wants to know why you like flying."
• (Thomas Mitchell) "I've been in it 22 years, Miss Lee. I couldn't give you an answer that would make any sense. What's so funny about that?"
• (Jean Arthur) "That's what my dad used to say."
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Flier?"
• (Jean Arthur) "No, trapeze. High stuff. He wouldn't use a net."
• (Sparks, radioman) "Not much future in that, either."
• (Jean Arthur) "Yes. We found that out."

• (Jean Arthur) "How can you eat that?"
• (Cary Grant) "What?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Eat that steak."
• (Cary Grant) "Well, what's the matter with it?"
• (Jean Arthur) "It was his."
• (Cary Grant) "Well, what do you want me to do, have it stuffed?"

• (Jean Arthur) "Say, things happen awful fast around here."

• (Jean Arthur) "Mr. Carter? Mr. Carter? Do you really think -- I mean -- Do you really think it was my fault, what happened out there?"
• (Cary Grant) "Sure it was your fault. You were gonna have dinner with him, the Dutchman hired him, I sent him up on schedule, the fog came in, a tree got in the way. All your fault. Forget it, unless you want the honor."

• (Jean Arthur) "I know, I know, you'd never ask any woman to do anything."

• (Jean Arthur) "I'm hard to get, Geoff. All you have to do is ask me."

• (Jean Arthur) "Say, isn't that girl the one he used to be in love with?"
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Bonnie, when it rains, every third drop falls on one of them."

Thomas Mitchell as Kid Dabb

• (Thomas Mitchell) "He's gonna try to land."
• (Pat Flaherty) "He can't make it."
• (Allyn Joslyn) "Not with that tail all smashed up. Not in a million years."
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Get set for the crash, Mike."
• (Jean Arthur) "Why doesn't he jump?"
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Why? Why should he? He's made of rubber, he is. He wants to hit the ground to see how high he can bounce."

• (Thomas Mitchell) "The only thing I can tell you about him, he's a good guy for gals to stay away from."

• (Thomas Mitchell) "Someday I'll get a straight answer from you, and I won't know what to do with it."

• (Thomas Mitchell) "The boat doesn't stop at Santa Maria this trip."
• (Cary Grant) "Why not?"
• (Thomas Mitchell) "They have no bananas."
• (Cary Grant) "They have no bananas?"
• (Thomas Mitchell) "Yes, they have no bananas."

Cary Grant as Geoff Carter

• (Cary Grant) "You'd better be good."
• (Jean Arthur) "I won't be as corny as you."

• (Cary Grant) "How about a light?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Isn't it about time you started carrying some of those?"

• (Cary Grant) "Did you ever hear of the word "trust"?"
• (Judith 'Judy' MacPherson) "I did once, but I forgot it."

• (Cary Grant) "You got the job."
• (Bat Kilgallen - MacPherson) "Maybe I ought you pat you on the back."
• (Cary Grant) "You don't have to. Just do what I tell you to do."
• (Bat Kilgallen - MacPherson) "You mean anything that's a little too tough for somebody else, huh?"
• (Cary Grant) "Yeah, that's about it. Look, fella, I'm knee-deep in friends around here, but you're one guy I can send out in any kind of weather on any kind of job, and only worry about the ship getting back."
• (Bat Kilgallen - MacPherson) "I see."
• (Cary Grant) "On those terms, you still want the job?"
• (Bat Kilgallen - MacPherson) "I don't know any other way I'd want it."

• (Cary Grant) "Wait a minute, you little fool, why don't you use your --"
• (Cary Grant) "Oh, come on. Stop it."
• (Jean Arthur) "I don't know how you can act like this when that poor kid, he's --"
• (Cary Grant) "Yeah, I know, he's dead."
• (Jean Arthur) "Yes, he's dead."
• (Cary Grant) "That's right. And he's been dead about 20 minutes, and all the weeping and wailing in the world won't make him any deader 20 years from now. If you feel like bawling, how do you think we feel?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, I'm sorry --"
• (Cary Grant) "Oh, come on. Go outside and walk around; and stay there until you put all that together."

• (Cary Grant) "Tell you what, I'll toss a coin, heads you stay, tails you go."

• (Cary Grant) "What's all this?"
• (Jean Arthur) "What?"
• (Cary Grant) "All this cooking."
• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, that's coffee."
• (Cary Grant) "Look at this mess --"
• (Jean Arthur) "Don't touch it, it's hot. You'll burn yourself."
• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, I told you."
• (Cary Grant) "Ah, ah. Go away, go away."
• (Jean Arthur) "Ooh, that is a burn. Here, I'll put some butter on it."
• (Cary Grant) "I don't want any butter on it."
• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, but it'll make you feel better."
• (Cary Grant) "I told you, I don't want any butter on it."
• (Jean Arthur) "My grandmother always used butter --"
• (Cary Grant) "I don't care what your grandmother did."
• (Cary Grant) "It's still boiling. What's all this about?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, I just thought I'd like to have a nice cup of coffee. It's so cold and rainy outside and nice and cozy in here."
• (Cary Grant) "Oh --"
• (Jean Arthur) "Wouldn't you like to have one, too?"
• (Cary Grant) "No, I wouldn't, and get out of here and stop making a mess and stay out of my room, and take this with you --"
• (Jean Arthur) "Oh, don't --"
• (Jean Arthur) "I thought you never did that."
• (Cary Grant) "Did what?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Got burned twice in the same place."

• (Cary Grant) "Got a match?"
• (Jean Arthur) "Say, don't you ever have any?"
• (Cary Grant) "No; don't believe in laying in a supply of anything."
• (Cary Grant) "Thanks."
• (Jean Arthur) "Matches, marbles, money or women, huh?"
• (Cary Grant) "That's right."
• (Jean Arthur) "No looking ahead; no tomorrows; just today."
• (Cary Grant) "That's right."

Don "Red" Barry as Tex Gordon

• (Don "Red" Barry) "Calling Baranca. Calling Baranca."

Victor Kilian as Sparks

• (Victor Kilian) "He was quoting Shakespeare, "Henry the 4th" I think, he said. "We owe God a death, if we pay it today, then we don't owe it tomorrow"."
• (Bat Kilgallen) "He's no fool."

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