- Barry Holmes: You don't think I'm sentimental, do you?
- Ruth Morgan: Oh, no. I know a guy who talks like that about his Buick.
- Barry Holmes: Its a good thing your sweetheart didn't bring those flowers himself - and find you here in my room.
- Ruth Morgan: My sweetheart?
- Barry Holmes: Well, if I sent a girl some flowers, she'd be my sweetheart.
- Ruth Morgan: They're from Mr. Klucke - the guy I work for. He's been on the make for months.
- Barry Holmes: On the make?
- Ruth Morgan: Yeah, on the make, on the make.
- Barry Holmes: I don't understand?
- Ruth Morgan: On the make means he's been tryin' to date me up - take me out.
- Barry Holmes: You don't mean he's annoying you?
- Ruth Morgan: He don't annoy me - I won't let 'em.
- Barry Holmes: Do you think they'll buy my song?
- Ruth Morgan: Reverse your English, kid, we're gonna sell it to them!
- Herman Kemple: If you want to take a girl to the opening of the Follies, for 27 dollars and 50 cents a seat, that's all right. That's your business. But, it's got to come from your own pocket. You can't chuck this firm's money around like that!
- Walter Klucke: But, it's business!
- Herman Kemple: Aw! Business? What kind of business?
- Herman Kemple: That ain't good business, that's makin' whoopee with the firm's money!
- Walter Klucke: That don't mean makin' whoopee.
- Herman Kemple: Is that so? Say, listen, any time a man pays 55 dollars for two seats in a theater, if that don't mean makin' whoopee! - well, then he's a schiemel. That's all I gotta say.
- Walter Klucke: Say, listen, you must not be seen at the Follies. If you, eh, if you want to be seen at places, you've got to look smart.
- Herman Kemple: Oh, I've got to look smart, now, heh? It ain't enough for me to be smart, now I got to look smart, heh!
- Walter Klucke: Who ever said you were smart? I am smarter than you ever was.
- Herman Kemple: Listen, the only time you was ever smarter than me, was when I took you for a partner!
- Ruth Morgan: Pat that boy on the back and he'll be writing rhapsodies.
- Herman Kemple: Yes and I suppose if you hit him on the head he'd write you a grand opera!
- Ruth Morgan: Aw, don't be cute!
- Barry Holmes: There's one thing that will make me work mighty hard.
- Ruth Morgan: What's that, big boy?
- Barry Holmes: If I know I'm gonna see you tonight.
- Ruth Morgan: It's a date!
- Barry Holmes: I thought you said you weren't going to let Mr. Klucke annoy you?
- Ruth Morgan: And I don't.
- Barry Holmes: So I noticed. You apparently enjoy him very much.
- Ruth Morgan: Oh, so that's why you're singing the blues.
- Barry Holmes: I should say not.
- Ruth Morgan: You funny boy! I was just walking out of the restaurant when I bumped into him and he was kind enough to drive me home. Say, I want you to understand, I wouldn't go out with Walter Klucke if he bought me a yacht as big as a leviathan!
- Walter Klucke: She might go with me if I told her I'd take her to the Starlight Gardens.
- Herman Kemple: She wouldn't go with you if you told her you'd take her to the Garden of Eden.