The Lady Eve Quotes

The Lady Eve is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . The Lady Eve ended its run in 1970.

It features Paul Jones (film producer) as producer, Phil Boutelje in charge of musical score, and Victor Milner as head of cinematography.

The Lady Eve is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Lady Eve is 94 minutes long. The Lady Eve is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Henry Fonda as Charles Pike, Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington, Eric Blore as Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith, William Demarest as Muggsy, Melville Cooper as Gerald, and Eugene Pallette as Horace Pike.

The Lady Eve Quotes

Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Boy, would I like to see you givin' some old harpie the three in one."
• (Unnamed) "Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "See anything you like?"

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Oh, there he is."
• (Henry Fonda) "I had to change my coat."
• (Eugene Pallette) "Well, don't knock the table over."

• (Unnamed) "Are you really in love with this mug?"
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Uh-huh."
• (Unnamed) "Don't you think it a little bit dangerous? I don't mean for us, I mean for your heart. They're apt to be slightly narrow-minded, the righteous people."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Do you know Charles?"
• (Eric Blore) "Oh, is he the tall backward boy who's always toying with toads and things? Yes, I think I have seen him skulking about."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "He isn't backwards. He's a scientist."
• (Eric Blore) "Oh, is that what it is? I knew he was -- peculiar."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "You see, Hopsi, you don't know very much about girls. The best ones aren't as good as you probably think they are and the bad ones aren't as bad. Not nearly as bad."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Naturally I was frightfully anxious to see Unlce Alfred, and as I didn't know just where Connecticut was, I took the tube."
• (Eugene Pallette) "The subway."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "And to the official, I said, "Be so good as to let me off at Connecticut." You see, I thought we'd have the boxes sent up in a dray later that afternoon."
• (Eugene Pallette) "The what?"
• (Unnamed) "Trunks on a truck."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "So he said, "Lady, I don't know where Connecticut is, but this train goes to Harlem.""
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "But I don't know how he knew I was a Lady."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "I don't see why I have to do all the dirty work. There must be plenty of rich old dames just waiting for you to push 'em around."
• (Unnamed) "You find 'em, I'll push 'em."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Oh, you don't know what you've done to me."
• (Henry Fonda) "Terribly sorry."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Oh, that's all right."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Don't you like my perfume?"
• (Henry Fonda) "Like it? I'm cockeyed on it."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Why, Hopsi, you aught to be kept in a cage."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "I need him like the ax needs the turkey."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "You go upstairs and take a bath and I'll like you just as much as ever."

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "What were you doing up the Amazon?"
• (Henry Fonda) "Looking for snakes. I'm an ophiologist."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "I thought you were in the beer business."
• (Henry Fonda) "Beer? Ale."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "What's the difference?"
• (Henry Fonda) "Between beer and ale?"
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Yes."
• (Henry Fonda) "My father'd burst a blood vessel if he heard you say that. There's a big difference. Ale's sort of fermented on the top or something, and beer's fermented on the bottom, or maybe it's the other way around. There's no similarity at all. You see, the trouble with being descended from a brewer, no matter how long ago he brewed it, or whatever you call it, you're supposed to know all about something you don't give a hoot about."

• (Unnamed) "What's 'e matter?"
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Oh, I'm sorry. That slimy snake. I've been dreaming about him all night."
• (Unnamed) "You mean Pike?"

• (Barbara Stanwyck) "They say a moonlit deck is a woman's business office."

William Demarest as Muggsy

• (William Demarest) "Positively the same dame."

• (Unnamed) "Good morning, sir. Fruit, cereal, bacon and eggs, eggs and sausage, sausage and hot cakes, hot cakes and ham, ham and eggs, eggs and bacon, bacon and --"
• (William Demarest) "Gimme a spoonful of milk, a raw pigeon's egg, and four houseflies. If you can't catch any, I'll settle for a cockroach."

• (William Demarest) "You don't happen to be a mouthpiece, do you? You talk like a law school."

• (William Demarest) "I wanna ask you a hypo-thermical question."
• (Unnamed) "Maybe that would be better to ask the doctor."
• (William Demarest) "Never mind the wisecracks."

Henry Fonda as Charles Pike

• (Henry Fonda) "Do you think they're dancing anyplace on board?"
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Don't you think we ought to go to bed?"
• (Henry Fonda) "You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Good thing you weren't up there two years."

• (Henry Fonda) "Have you seen this one?"
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Look, he does card tricks."

• (Henry Fonda) "There's just one thing. I feel it's only fair to tell you. It'd never of happened except she looked so exactly like you."

• (Henry Fonda) "Holy Moses."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "What's the matter?"
• (Henry Fonda) "That perfume."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "What's the matter with it?"
• (Henry Fonda) "Well, it's just that I've been up the Amazon for a year and they don't use perfume."

• (Henry Fonda) "A girl of sixteen's practically an idiot anyway, so I can't very well blame you for something that was practically done by somebody else."

• (Steward) "Breakfast, sir?"
• (Henry Fonda) "What'd you say?"
• (Steward) "I said, "Breakfast, sir?""
• (Henry Fonda) "Two scotch and sodas with plain water. You take it plain, don't you?"
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Don't you take cream and sugar?"
• (Henry Fonda) "No, I always drink it black."
• (Henry Fonda) "Say, what am I talking about?"
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "That's what I was wondering."
• (Steward) "How about a nice bicarbonate of soda with an egg in it? It does wonders."

• (Henry Fonda) "They look too much alike to be the same."

• (Henry Fonda) "Now you, on the other hand, with a little coaching you could be terrific."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Do you really think so?"
• (Henry Fonda) "Yes, you have a definite nose."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Well, I'm glad you like it. Do you like any of the rest of me?"

• (Henry Fonda) "And I have no right to be in your cabin."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "Why?"
• (Henry Fonda) "I'm married."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "But so am I, darling. So am I."

• (Henry Fonda) "Snakes are my life, in a way."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "What a life."

• (Henry Fonda) "What I am trying to say is; only I'm not a poet, I'm an ophiologist; I've always loved you. I mean, I've never loved anyone but you."

Melville Cooper as Gerald

• (Melville Cooper) "What I can't understand is how he finished fifth."
• (Barbara Stanwyck) "There were only five horses in the race. What do you expect when you bet on a goat called "After You?""

• (Melville Cooper) "D'you want the strippers on the right or the left"
• (Unnamed) "I hardly need them, Gerald. I can take this boy with a deck of visiting cards."

Eugene Pallette as Horace Pike

• (Unnamed) "But he says she says she won't have anything to do with lawyers."
• (Unnamed) "That's entirely irregular."
• (Eugene Pallette) "Well, it's a thought."

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