The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Lou Costello: Horatio Prim

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Quotes 

• Horatio Prim : [he and Melody collide and are wearing each other's clothes]  Odds bodkins, we're all mixed up!

  [they run into each other again and get back into their own clothes] 

  Horatio Prim : Melody, don't ever do that again, I'm a boy!

• Melody Allen : Here's a horse pistol.

  [Gives him the gun. Horatio turns to the horse behind him] 

  Horatio Prim : Here, this is for you. Now what do I shoot with?

• Horatio Prim : Cuthbert, Melody, it's Cuthbert! He's still alive!

  Melody Allen : How can that be?

  Horatio Prim : I don't know, they say only the good die young.

• Horatio Prim : [Horatio and Nora are laying in the hay, Nora kisses him, he gasps and stutters]  Nora!

  Nora O'Leary : Oh Horatio, do my kisses thrill you that much?

  Horatio Prim : I'm sitting on a pitchfork!

• Horatio Prim : [after seeing Emily for the first time]  Zounds! What well did she come out of?

• Melody Allen : Horatio, be patient.

  Horatio Prim : Be patient? Melody, do you realize that my Nora has been waiting on me for 165 years? And a girl will only wait so long, and no longer!

• Melody Allen : I need help.

  Horatio Prim : [With his head sticking out of a trunk]  What do you think I need? Would you please me get out of this overcoat?

• Telephone operator : [Horatio picks up the phone receiver]  Number please.

  Horatio Prim : Spooks!

  [runs over to Melody] 

  Horatio Prim : That thing just talked to me!

• Melody Allen : [Tom's voice is coming through Emily]  Horatio, why can't I see him?

  Horatio Prim : You can't, you poor kid. You see, he's got his wings, and we're still grounded.

• Cuthbert Greenway : If he had a letter from George Washington, then he couldn't have been a traitor.

  Horatio Prim : [raps on the table]  That's right!

  Mildred Dean : Now don't tell me we're going to stay up the rest of the night contacting George Washington!

• Melody Allen : You know no self-respecting ghosts do any haunting before midnight.

  Horatio Prim : Alright, I'll wait. But tonight, I haunt!

• Horatio Prim : I don't want those people coming around here saying,

  [singing] 

  Horatio Prim : Here lie the dirty traitors! Here lie the dirty traitors!

  [crying] 

  Horatio Prim : Here lie the dirty traitors.

• Melody Allen : [picks up a book]  Tom Danbury's memoirs.

  Horatio Prim : His grandmas?

• Horatio Prim : Odds, bodkins, and copper pots!