Born Yesterday (1950)

Howard St. John: Jim Devery

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• Harry Brock : Don't you feel good? You want a aspirin?

  Jim Devery : No, no, I'm fine. In fact, considering I've been dead for sixteen years I'm in remarkable health.

• Harry Brock : How d'ya like that! He could've had a hundred grand. She could've had me. Both wind up with nothin'... Dumb chump!... Crazy broad!

  Jim Devery : [raises a glass as a toast]  To all the dumb chumps and all the crazy broads, past, present, and future, who thirst for knowledge and search for truth... who fight for justice and civilize each other... and make it so tough for crooks like you...

  [Harry stares at him angrily] 

  Jim Devery : ...*and* me.

• Harry Brock : WHAT'S GOIN' ON AROUND HERE?

  Jim Devery : A revolution.

• Jim Devery : Anyway you've been engaged for seven years, I've never understood why you waited this long.

  Harry Brock : I didn't wanna to be rushed. Look, this way I give her somethin', I'm a swell fella. We get married, she's got it coming, she thinks.

• Jim Devery : How are you, Billie?

  Billie : Superb. A new word.

• Harry Brock : I don't like the way things are goin' around here, you stewed all the time, and that broad out of line. And some fine congressman you bought me.

  Jim Devery : I think he's cute.

  Harry Brock : Yeah, well, I've got to trade him in. No kiddin'.

  Jim Devery : On what, for instance?

  Harry Brock : For instance, on a senator!

• Jim Devery : Just because I'm a lawyer does not mean I own the law.

• Jim Devery : All you have to do is be nice - and no rough language.

  Billie : I won't open my mush.

• Jim Devery : Billie's not like that.

  Harry Brock : A broad's a broad!

• Jim Devery : Send her home.

  Harry Brock : No!

  Jim Devery : Why not?

  Harry Brock : I'm nuts about her.

  Jim Devery : Can't have your cake and eat it.

  Harry Brock : What?

  Jim Devery : Just a saying.

  Harry Brock : That don't make any sense.

  Jim Devery : All right.

  Harry Brock : What's cakes got to do with it?

  Jim Devery : Nothing, Harry.

• Jim Devery : He won't like it.

  Billie : Why not?

  Jim Devery : Well, he just won't, that's all. He doesn't like people butting in.

  Billie : I'm not people!

• Jim Devery : Listen to me. Be smart.

  Billie : How can I be smart if nobody ever tells me anything?

• Jim Devery : I really think you've pulled a boner, friend.