Sir Simon Flaquer: [about Mrs. Paradine] You'll find her a strange woman with an almost mystical charm.


--Charles Coburn (as Sir Simon Flaquer) in The Paradine Case

Max W. Wharton: Is that what you're concerned about? Your two million bucks?
Robert Drexel Gow: To a degree, yes. Is that vulgar?


--Charles Coburn (as Robert Drexel Gow) in Over 21

Gay Keane: Have you ever realized what a lot you can learn from photographs?
Sir Simon Flaquer: The social footsteps of time.


--Charles Coburn (as Sir Simon Flaquer) in The Paradine Case

Judy Flaquer: [about Mrs. Paradine] What's she really like?
Sir Simon Flaquer: Fascinating, fascinating. I'm an old ruin, but she certainly brings my pulse up a beat or two.


--Charles Coburn (as Sir Simon Flaquer) in The Paradine Case

Albert 'Al' Marbury: Well, you're not going to see the mayor right now, are you?
Col. Will Seaborn Effingham: Soon as I can change my clothes.
Albert 'Al' Marbury: Well, there's no hurry, cousin Willie. Any old time will do.
Col. Will Seaborn Effingham: Son, when you get to be sixty-five it's a good time to hurry!


--Charles Coburn (as Col. Will Seaborn Effingham) in Colonel Effingham's Raid

[first lines]
Robert Drexel Gow: My editor! My paper! And this is how he tells me!


--Charles Coburn (as Robert Drexel Gow) in Over 21

[last lines]
Max W. Wharton: Just call her: boss!
Robert Drexel Gow: [to Polly] Okay, boss!


--Charles Coburn (as Robert Drexel Gow) in Over 21

[pouring coffee but there is very little left because he accidently spilled most of it out a few minutes earlier]
Benjamin Dingle: There's a war going on Ms. Milligan!


--Charles Coburn (as Benjamin Dingle) in The More the Merrier

Constance 'Connie' Milligan: ...I've made up my mind to rent to nobody but a woman.
Benjamin Dingle: So, let me ask you something. Would I ever want to wear your stockings?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: No.
Benjamin Dingle: Well, all right. Would I ever want to borrow your girdle, or your red and yellow dancing slippers?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Of course not.
Benjamin Dingle: Well, any woman, no matter who, would insist upon borrowing that dress you got on right now. You know why? Because it's so pretty.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: I made it myself.
Benjamin Dingle: And how would you like it if she spilled a cocktail all over it... at a party you couldn't go with her to because she borrowed it to go to it... in?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: She might have something that I could wear.
Benjamin Dingle: Not her.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Why not?
Benjamin Dingle: Because she's so dumpy looking. Never has anything clean. That's why she's always borrowing your dresses.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: How do I know you'd be any better?
Benjamin Dingle: Well, look at me. I'm neat, like a pin. Ah, let me stay.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Well, look, I...
Benjamin Dingle: I tell you what. We'll try it out for a week. End of the week comes, if you're not happy, we'll flip a coin to see who moves out.


--Charles Coburn (as Benjamin Dingle) in The More the Merrier

Benjamin Dingle: [singing] In love or war, with people like us, we've got to work fast or we'll miss the bus. If you straddle a fence and you sit and wait, you get too little and you get it too late. What'll you say if we see it through, you stick by me and I'll stick by you. And our 18 children will be glad we said...
Benjamin Dingle, Men bunking in the apartment building lobby: [singing] "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. And our 18 children will be glad we said, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"


--Charles Coburn (as Benjamin Dingle) in The More the Merrier