The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)

Jean Arthur: Mary Jones

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• Mary Jones : You... Benedict Arnold in sheep's clothing!

• Mary Jones : Just forget all about it.

  Merrick : I'm an elephant, Miss Jones, a veritable elephant. I never forget a good deed done me or an *ill* one. I consider myself a kind of divine justice. Other people in this world have to forget things. I do not.

  Mary Jones : Now, don't talk like your out of your mind and don't be blasphemous about 'divine justice'.

• Joe O'Brien : A woman's place in the world is to tend the male.

  Mary Jones : Not this woman and not this male.

• Mary Jones : Don't you feel badly. He'll get his just desserts one of these days.

  Merrick : I'd like to be as certain of the hereafter, Miss Jones.

• Mary Jones : I can't understand how you've never eaten in an automat before.

  Merrick : I never thought of it. I could sue them, getting my finger caught like that.

  Mary Jones : Well, I don't know. I've been eating there for years. I never heard of anybody getting their fingers caught before. Say, tell me the truth, was the manager right, did you try to get that blueberry pie without putting in a nickel?

  Merrick : You too. I tell you I *did* put in a nickel. But, I went to get coffee and somebody must have sneaked the pie out.

• Merrick : Now, look around us. There's a couple over there. They think they were made for each other. He's biting her ear. Now, she's biting his ear. Very touching.

  Mary Jones : I think so.

  Merrick : They've found each other, haven't they? Out of this whole wide world, these two were lucky enough to come together. But, don't you think, if she hadn't met him, there wouldn't be somebody else biting her ear now? And don't you think he would be at some other girl's ear - probably 10 feee away?

  Mary Jones : Maybe. But that doesn't prove anything.

• Mary Jones : I don't say Joe's the greatest thing that ever lived. I probably wouldn't love him if he was. I'd just want to look at him. But, you see, I'm not the greatest girl in the world either. Two people look at each other and they see something way deep inside, that nobody else can. And that's it. I wouldn't be surprised if the greatest love affair in the world was between a Chinaman wearing a pigtail and a girl whose missing two front teeth. If you could measure it. If they feel it, they feel it.

  Merrick : Do you?

  Mary Jones : Not the way you see in the movies or hear in those songs, you know, about the touch of your hand, you set me on fire. I guess I'm not the combustible type.

• Mary Jones : I wish you'd marry me, just like it is. I'm not afraid.

  Joe O'Brien : Marriage? You're not afraid? Women are never afraid. How long do you think you'd be in love with me living off your salary?

  Mary Jones : That's nothing to be ashamed of. You can't help it.

  Joe O'Brien : Not to you; but, it is to me.

• Mary Jones : We've got 'em licked!

• Mary Jones : Gee, this is wonderful. I can't believe we're really going to Honolulu.

• Mary Jones : Elizabeth, you know, you've lived a very sheltered life. Now, men aren't exactly what they seem to be. Some men are wonderful. Other men are *beasts*.

• Mary Jones : Scientists can write all the books they like about love being a trap of nature. I remember reading that. That it's biology and the chemistry inside a woman that fools her. But, all the scientists are going to convince the other scientists; but, not women in love.