Jerry Travers: Are you afraid of thunder?
Dale Tremont: Oh, no. It's just the noise.
Jerry Travers: You know what thunder is, don't you?
Dale Tremont: Of course. It's something about the air.
Jerry Travers: No, no. When a clumsy cloud from here meets a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away and he scuds right up to her. She cries a little and there you have you showers. He comforts her. They spark. That's the lightning. They kiss. Thunder.


--Fred Astaire (as Jerry Travers) in Top Hat

Jerry Travers: I think I feel an attack coming on. There's only one thing that can stop me.
Dale Tremont: Why, you must tell me what it is!
Jerry Travers: My nurses always put their arms around me.


--Fred Astaire (as Jerry Travers) in Top Hat

Jerry Travers: In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.


--Fred Astaire (as Jerry Travers) in Top Hat

Egbert Fitzgerald: Guy, you're not pining for that girl!
Guy Holden: Pining? Men don't pine. Girls pine. Men just... suffer.


--Fred Astaire (as Guy Holden) in The Gay Divorcee

Horace Hardwick: You know how wives are.
Jerry Travers: No I don't. How are they?


--Fred Astaire (as Jerry Travers) in Top Hat

Horace Hardwick: You mean to sit there and tell me that that girl slapped your face in front of all those people for nothing?
Jerry Travers: Well, what would you have done? Sold tickets?


--Fred Astaire (as Jerry Travers) in Top Hat

John Kent: You don't appreciate her. I know she seems a little hard and sophisticated, but underneath she's a pearl.
Huckleberry Haines: And a pearl so I'm told, is the result of a chronic irritation on an oyster.


--Fred Astaire (as Huckleberry Haines) in Roberta

[talking about the horse]
Dale Treemont: Who was his dam?
Jerry Travers: What?
Dale Treemont: I said, who was his dam?
Jerry Travers: I don't know miss, he didn't give a...


--Fred Astaire (as Jerry Travers) in Top Hat

Bake Baker: [singing] I've been a roaming Romeo. My Juliet's have been many. But now my roaming days have gone. Too many irons in the fire is worse than not having any. I've had my share and from now on... I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. I'm betting everything I've got on you. I'm giving all my love to one baby. Heaven help me if my baby don't come through. I've got a great big amount saved up in my love account. Honey, and I've decided, love divided in two won't do. So I'm putting all my eggs in one basket. I'm betting everything I've got on you.


--Fred Astaire (as Bake Baker) in Follow the Fleet

Guy Holden: [singing] It's just like looking for a needle in a haystack. Searching for a moonbeam in the moon. Still I've gotta find you. It's just like looking for a raindrop in the ocean. Searching for a dewdrop in the dew. Still I've gotta find you. I'll roam the town in hope that we'll meet. Look at each face I pass on the street. Sometimes I feel the beat of your feet. But it's just imagination. Though it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Still I'll follow every little clue 'cause I've gotta find you.


--Fred Astaire (as Guy Holden) in The Gay Divorcee