Waco: Love is the best thing there is, I guess, but you're barking up the wrong cowboy.


--Charles Winninger (as Waco) in A Lady Takes a Chance

Waco: Remember what you told me? "Women is like socks... you gotta change 'em regular."


--Charles Winninger (as Waco) in A Lady Takes a Chance

Washington Dimsdale: Frenchy, am I really Sheriff?
Frenchy: Sure you are!
Washington Dimsdale: Then I'm off the liquor. A man's got to choose between the bottle and the badge.


--Charles Winninger (as Washington Dimsdale) in Destry Rides Again

Mrs. Minerva Alsop Morgan: Margaud's upset about something.
D. Rutherford Morgan: You don't say?
Mrs. Minerva Alsop Morgan: She very definitely has something on her mind.
D. Rutherford Morgan: If she has anything on her mind it's a step in the right direction.


--Charles Winninger (as ) in Living in a Big Way

[Having sworn in his new deputy]
Washington Dimsdale: Here's your badge. Don't let anybody see it.


--Charles Winninger (as Washington Dimsdale) in Destry Rides Again

[last lines]
Dr. Enoch Downer: Hazel! Hazel!
Hazel Flagg: Yes, Enoch? What is it?
Dr. Enoch Downer: Hazel! Hazel! Run for your life! Run for your life! The hotel is flooded!


--Charles Winninger (as Dr. Enoch Downer) in Nothing Sacred

[Wash announces he will send for Tom Destry to be his Deputy Sheriff]
Frenchy: But Destry's dead!
Bugs Watson: That makes him the right man for the job.
Gyp Watson: Save us a lot of trouble.
Washington Dimsdale: Is that so? Well, young Tom ain't dead and his father brought him up to be the toughest and fightin'est man that ever growed up in the West! He ain't got as big a name as his pa, but he cleaned up Tombstone and I'm sendin' for him to be my deputy and when he gets here, Destry will ride again!


--Charles Winninger (as Washington Dimsdale) in Destry Rides Again