Col. Hector Phyffe: [seeing his wife appear unexpectedly as he is kissing another woman] My wife! Stand by to render first aid!


--Adolphe Menjou (as Col. Hector Phyffe) in Hi Diddle Diddle

Louis Easton: [to Eva] Please, Eva, you must put me out of your heart. I don't belong there, and you don't belong in mine. I'm not the man for you. I never was. You don't belong to any man now. You belong to Broadway, theater, lights.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Louis) in Morning Glory

Monsieur Victor Lobard: That's the trouble with a flawless plan! There's always a flaw in it!


--Adolphe Menjou (as ) in Café Metropole

Nicoleff: This place is very good for my liver.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Nicoleff) in Gold Diggers of 1935

Oliver Merlin: I'm a producer of movies. I get my wagonloads of poets and dramatists, but I can't buy common sense - I cannot buy humanity!
Hazel Dawes: Well, I don't know why, Mr. Merlin. There's an awful lot of it.
Oliver Merlin: Yes, I know, but the moment I buy it, it turns into something else, usually genius, and it isn't worth a dime. Now, if you could stay just as simple as your are, you'd be invaluable to me. I'll put you on my staff. I'll give you a title, "Miss Humanity". Don't rush, you can finish your ice cream soda.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Oliver Merlin) in The Goldwyn Follies

Oliver Niles: Now, I'm going to turn you over to our demon press agent, Libby. Don't let him frighten you. He has a heart of gold... only harder.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Oliver Niles) in A Star Is Born

Pancho Gomez: It isn't his leg; it's his spine. He's yellow.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez) in The Trumpet Blows

Pancho Gomez: What I do and say at that grave is my affair. It's my grave, isn't it? Isn't it me who's buried there?


--Adolphe Menjou (as Pancho Montes / Pancho Gomez) in The Trumpet Blows

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Dizzy, when that guy comes back for the little doll, don't you turn her over to him until you get that twenty bucks.
Dizzy Memphis: But she's gone, boss.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: So he sneaked her out, eh? Serves me right. Every time I get big-hearted -
Regret: When was the other time?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Why didn't you watch her?
Regret: What am I, a nursemaid? What'd you take her as a marker for, anyway?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I don't know.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Sorrowful Jones) in Little Miss Marker

Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Talking like that ain't nice.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: What's nice?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Being a good girl is nice.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I'm a bad girl. Nurse says so.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Why?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Nurse says there's somebody named God, and a girl's bad if she does't pray to Him every night. Daddy says there's nobody named God.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: When did he say that?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: When my mommy went away.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I guess your daddy got a bad break.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Sorrowful Jones) in Little Miss Marker