- Claudius King: [laughing] So, not content with ruining your life, Willie also ruined your speech, eh?
- Claire Landin, aka Miss Claire King: Willie did *not* ruin my speech; after he got out, I really outdid myself. I'll bet half the married women in that room went directly home and beat up their husbands.
- Claudius King: [sniggering] Wouldn't surprise me. I've always contended that modern civilization wrecked itself when we separated women from goats and moved them into the house.
- Bill Landin: He's got about as much imagination as a duck.
- Claire Landin, aka Miss Claire King: Why a duck?
- Bill Landin: Women are funny.
- Bill Landin: A good advertising campaign has got to have the soul of a Gehrig and the wit of a Shaw presented in such a fashion that any moron could understand it.
- Bill Landin: [to George Dunlap, after George had offered him a job] You know something? I like you. If it was oyster season I'd eat you. If I had a lot of Tabasco sauce to put on you, I'd eat you.