Albert: Nobody's too old for anything, but unhappiness!


--Harry Davenport (as ) in She Wouldn't Say Yes

Confederate Veteran: [to his fellow Confederate veterans] On your feet now. Go on and look sharp. The whole town's wwatching. This is the one day out of the year that belongs to us.


--Harry Davenport (as ) in Deep South

Grandpa: [moaning] Ohhhhhhh.
Katie the Maid: What was that?
Grandpa: Here are your sacks of flour.
[Hand them to Tootie and Agnes]
Grandpa: You couldn't get me out on a night like this for a million dollars!
Agnes Smith: Did anyone here a noise just now?
Grandpa: Did it sound like this?
[moans again]
Grandpa: Ohhhhhh?
Agnes Smith: Uh-huh.
Grandpa: [Shakes his head] I didn't hear it.
Grandpa: If you wet the flour before you throw it, it makes it harder for the victim to remove it.


--Harry Davenport (as Grandpa Prophater) in Meet Me in St. Louis

Grandpa: Excuse me, young man, but in the great country of China, when a stranger admires one of your possessions, it's common courtesy to offer it to him.
Kid at the ball: That's very interesting...
Grandpa: Well I spent many years in China, and if you want me to feel thoroughly at home, you might offer me your partner.
Kid at the ball: Huh?
Grandpa: Spoken like a true gentleman.


--Harry Davenport (as Grandpa Prophater) in Meet Me in St. Louis

Grandpa: You'll all be safe with me; I've got twelve guns in my room!


--Harry Davenport (as Grandpa Prophater) in Meet Me in St. Louis

Judge: I've never heard that celebrities are to be trusted in their relationships with women more than anybody else.


--Harry Davenport (as ) in Lucky Partners

Pierre: There on the left, the lights in her rooms are burning, and there on the right, the lights in his room are burning and between them is that long passage where the lights never burn. Suppose some night you saw that passage lighted? Would you share your feeling then with all the world?
Henriette Deluzy-Desportes: You'd better go now, Pierre.
Pierre: I'll go. I'll go, because I see it's too late to give you any warning. Your caught in the net and you don't even wish to escape. Goodnight mademoiselle.


--Harry Davenport (as Pierre) in All This and Heaven Too

Pop Tolliver: How do you want your eggs, up or over?
Steve Collins: Up.
Joan Winfield: Over.
Pop Tolliver: Okay, I'll make them all up so we don't get confused.


--Harry Davenport (as Pop Tolliver) in The Bride Came C.O.D.

Pop Tolliver: Remember that bullet I whizzed right past your head?
Steve Collins: Yeah, for a minute I thought you trying to hit me.
Pop Tolliver: I was.


--Harry Davenport (as Pop Tolliver) in The Bride Came C.O.D.

Pop Tolliver: Well, ain't much difference 'tween kidnapping and marriage. You get snatched from your parents, but in marriage nobody offers a reward.


--Harry Davenport (as Pop Tolliver) in The Bride Came C.O.D.