Another Thin Man (1939)

William Powell: Nick

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• Barney - MacFay's Bodyguard : What's the idea of the kid?

  Nick Charles : Well, we have a dog, and he was lonesome. That was the idea, wasn't it, Mummy?

• Nora Charles : How did you know I was here?

  Nick Charles : I saw a great group of men standing around a table. I knew there was only one woman in the world who could attract men like that - a woman with a lot of money.

• Nora Charles : [Reading phone messages]  Here's another one of those "Call Long Island Operator #15." Don't you think you ought to call her?

  Nick Charles : Certainly not; she knows better than that! I told her I was bringing the wife along this time.

  Nora Charles : I don't know why I always take it for granted that you're kidding.

• Nora Charles : I got rid of all those reporters.

  Nick Charles : What did you tell them?

  Nora Charles : I told them we were out of scotch.

  Nick Charles : What a gruesome thought!

• [to their waiter] 

  Nick Charles : Two Bacardis.

  Nora Charles : The same.

• Detective : What were you shooting at him for?

  Nick Charles : I wasn't shooting at him. He was shooting at me. Why were you shooting at him?

  Detective : Well, everybody else was.

• Nick Charles : [Nick finds Nora at a table surrounded by a crowd of suitors]  Now Mommy, you know better than to come to place like this, your first day out of bed. What if the health officers find out? They'll put you right back in quarantine.

  Nora Charles : I won't stay in quarantine! I don't care who catches it.

  [the suitors quickly leave] 

• Policeman with flashlight : We're going to have to shoot that mutt. We'll never find him like this.

  Nick Charles : Wait a minute. He's not going to come running up to a lot of strange men with lights. What do you think he is? A moth?

• Nick Charles : You won't be alone long. Wait till the news of your five million hits the front pages. You'll find you've got relatives all over the world.

• Nora Charles : You're suspicious of everything.

  Nick Charles : Well, I hate to wake up some morning and find the fortune I married you for was gone.

• 'Creeps' Binder : Nick sent me up the river.

  Nora Charles : It's nice you don't feel bad about it.

  'Creeps' Binder : Why should I? Gee! It took a genius to outsmart me.

  Nick Charles : You wanna touch me?

  Nora Charles : Really, Creeps, you shouldn't run him down like that.

• Colonel MacFay : He wants a lot of money, and when you won't give it to him, he says you won't be pigheaded, because he dreamed twice about your dying, and the third time he dreams things, they come true. Now, what do you think?

  Nick Charles : I wouldn't think I have to hurry up my dying on his account.

• [last lines] 

  Nick Charles : Let's sit down.

  Nora Charles : Sit down? What for?

  Nick Charles : Just to get a little rest after our quiet weekend in the country.

• Nick Charles : Now you know why I retired. Good luck.

  Van Slack : You're not walking out on me, are you?

  Nick Charles : I'm not walking out, I'm running out. Mind you, if there were any reasonable chance of me to help you, it would be different, but during this quiet little weekend in the country, my family's been threatened, I've had a knife thrown at me, I've been shot at, and I've been suspected of murder. From now on, this is your case. You can handle it. I'm going back to New York!

• Mrs. Bellam : I heard the noise.

  Dudley Horn : MacFay's been murdered.

  Mrs. Bellam : Well, we all have to go some day. Shall I call the Sheriff?

  Nick Charles : Yes.

• Nick Charles : You didn't have a heavy set man with thick glasses watching Church?

  Van Slack : No.

  Nick Charles : No, I thought not. I'd never seen a country cop with a six thousand dollar coupé before.

• Nick Charles : Does she have noisy parties?

  Mrs. Dolley : You know how girls are.

  Nick Charles : No, how are they?

  Mrs. Dolley : Oh, go on! Don't kid me.

• Nora Charles : [Talking on the phone]  Oh, we had a lovely trip. Nick was sober in Kansas City.

  Nick Charles : [Talking to a stuffed Panda bear]  That's a very bitter woman.

• Nick Charles : Thanks for not shooting me.

  Smitty : Oh, well that'd only of made things worse.

• Dudley Horn : That's a mean way to die.

  Nick Charles : Do you know any good ways?

• West Indies Club Headwaiter : You are alone?

  Nick Charles : The good are often alone.

  West Indies Club Headwaiter : I fix it so you will not be good long.

• Nick Charles : Madame, how long have you been leading this double life?

  Nora Charles : Just since we've been married.

• Nick Charles : I'd like to go in there by myself.

  Nora Charles : You go everywhere alone. I'd like to have some fun too!

• Nick Charles : What does she look like?

  Mrs. Dolley : The way she slaps that make-up on, you'd think she's an old timer, but she don't need to. She's real pretty.

  Nick Charles : Young?

  Mrs. Dolley : Yeah, She's fears, she knows all all the answers. I wished I knew as much when I was her age!

• Nick Charles : You know, she wouldn't be a bad looker if she took her specs off.

  Nora Charles : I'll speak to her.

  Nick Charles : Oh, don't get her hopes up.

• Lois MacFay : Do you think the police are going to be enough or should...

  Dudley Horn : I should say they were more than enough!

  Nick Charles : Son, you better take a bromide.

  Lois MacFay : You're shaking like a leaf.

• Nick Charles : There goes Dum-Dum.

• Nora Charles : Give me fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents.

  Nick Charles : Fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents? What for?

  Nora Charles : Men.

  Nick Charles : Another one?

• Nick Charles : You didn't have any money until I showed up.

  Nora Charles : I was doing all right. I'd have gotten it.

• Nick Charles : Oh, Linda Mills. A young girl, very pretty.

  West Indies Club Drunk : That's the one. Cute lookin' doll, I guess, under all that warpaint, but plenty tough.

• Nora Charles : [reading a report]  Production of lumber seasonally adjusted. Good heavens, do you understand that?

  Nick Charles : Oh, sure, sure. That's, uh... that's the indirect ratio between the sales depreciation and the unrealized inventory losses. Understand?

  Nora Charles : Oh, yes.

  Nick Charles : But, uh, naturally allowance has to be made for the major cyclical downswing. You, uh, get that of course?

  Nora Charles : Naturally.

  Nick Charles : Oh, do you? Of course, you have to have a degree of accuracy by a reference to a straight line correlation formula.