Geoff Carter: What's all this?
Bonnie Lee: What?
Geoff Carter: All this cooking!
Bonnie Lee: Oh, that's coffee.
Geoff Carter: Look at this mess...
Bonnie Lee: Don't touch it, it's hot! You'll burn yourself.
[he touches it]
Bonnie Lee: Oh, I told you!
Geoff Carter: Ah, ah. Go away, go away!
Bonnie Lee: Ooh, that is a burn. Here, I'll put some butter on it.
Geoff Carter: I don't want any butter on it.
Bonnie Lee: Oh, but it'll make you feel better!
Geoff Carter: I told you, I don't want any butter on it!
Bonnie Lee: My grandmother always used butter...
Geoff Carter: I don't care what your grandmother did!
[referring to the coffee]
Geoff Carter: It's still boiling! What's all this about?
Bonnie Lee: Oh, I just thought I'd like to have a nice cup of coffee. It's so cold and rainy outside and nice and cozy in here.
Geoff Carter: Oh...
Bonnie Lee: Wouldn't you like to have one, too?
Geoff Carter: No, I wouldn't, and get out of here and stop making a mess and stay out of my room, and take this with you...
[reaches for kettle]
Bonnie Lee: Oh, don't ...
Geoff Carter: [picks up kettle, whistles in surprise]
Bonnie Lee: [laughs] I thought you never did that.
Geoff Carter: Did what?
Bonnie Lee: Got burned twice in the same place.


--Jean Arthur (as Bonnie Lee) in Only Angels Have Wings

Geoff Carter: You'd better be good!
Bonnie Lee: I won't be as corny as you.


--Jean Arthur (as Bonnie Lee) in Only Angels Have Wings

Peter Muncie: A wagon train come in headin' for California and I'm joinin' up with it.
Phoebe Titus: When?
Peter Muncie: Sundown.
Phoebe Titus: Well, sundown is a good time to leave. Indians don't hanker much for night fightin'.


--Jean Arthur (as Phoebe Titus) in Arizona

Dr. Lawrence Bradford: Murphy, you're manna from heaven.
Paula Bradford: You mean that manna's here again?


--Jean Arthur (as ) in The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Dr. Lawrence Bradford: What *is* a cocktail dress?
Paula Bradford: Something to spill cocktails on.


--Jean Arthur (as ) in The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Captain John Pringle: How is good old Iowa?
Phoebe Frost: Sixty-two percent Republican, thank you.


--Jean Arthur (as Phoebe Frost) in A Foreign Affair

Babe Bennett: I know why he won't defend himself! That has a bearing on the case, hasn't it? He's been hurt, he's been hurt by everybody he met since he came here, principally by me. He's been the victim of every conniving crook in town. The newspapers pounced on him, made him a target for their feeble humor. I was smarter than the rest of them: I got closer to him, so I could laugh louder. Why shouldn't he keep quiet - every time he said anything it was twisted around to sound imbecilic! He can thank me for it. I handed the gang a grand laugh. It's a fitting climax to my sense of humor.


--Jean Arthur (as Babe Bennett) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

[to Charles J. Pendergast, her fiancee]
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: You've been shushing me for 22 months now. You've shushed your last shush!


--Jean Arthur (as Connie Milligan) in The More the Merrier

Alice Sycamore: You know I've decided that it's your family that isn't good enough! Why I wouldn't be related to a bunch of snobs like that for anything in the world. Your mother's all in a dither because of her social reputation.
The Crowd: That's telling them Alice. Who do they think they are!
Alice Sycamore: Your reputation's safe as far as I'm concerned - and so is your son's -- and so is your old man's!


--Jean Arthur (as Alice Sycamore) in You Can't Take It With You

Alice Sycamore:That's not true! Grandpa, I won't stand for it! I won't stand for our being humiliated like this! They were ashamed to say why they were there. They're ashamed to admit they came to look my family over -- to see if I was good enough to marry their precious son!


--Jean Arthur (as Alice Sycamore) in You Can't Take It With You