Mr. Quimby: Forgive me for saying this, but this boy has character, and I know what character is! I remember when I had it!


--Ray Walston (as Mr. Quimby) in Who's Minding the Store?

Mr. Quimby: How do you suppose I got to be the general manager of this great store? How?
Norman Phiffier: How? How?
Mr. Quimby: I'll tell you! I'll tell you!
Norman Phiffier: Go ahead! Go ahead!
Mr. Quimby: I will! I will!


--Ray Walston (as Mr. Quimby) in Who's Minding the Store?

Mr. Quimby: Quimby here.
Mrs. Phoebe Tuttle: You're out of breath, Quimby.
Mr. Quimby: Yes, I, ah
[clears throat]
Mr. Quimby: working late, long day.
Mrs. Phoebe Tuttle: Don't put me on, Quimby. You've had at least three scotches and you're winded from chasing your pretty secretary. But don't worry, Quimby, I'll ok her next raise.
Mr. Quimby: I've always considered you, not only my boss, but a dandy friend, Mrs. Tuttle.


--Ray Walston (as Mr. Quimby) in Who's Minding the Store?

Orville J. Spooner: [reminiscing about his wife's dentist] "Tender gums". That's a hell of a thing to say to a married woman.


--Ray Walston (as ) in Kiss Me, Stupid

Orville J. Spooner: If it weren't for Venetian blinds, it'd be curtains for us...


--Ray Walston (as ) in Kiss Me, Stupid

[Introduction to the song "They Call the Wind Mariah"]
Mad Jack Duncan: It's a living hell up here. What with the bloody rain, the bloody loneliness, and that bloody, bloody wind.


--Ray Walston (as Mad Jack Duncan) in Paint Your Wagon

[On the fact that the Mormon settler has two wives]
Mad Jack: I got no quarrel with 'ow a man prays; there's enough room in 'ell for all of us! Wot I don't like is that you got two of somethin' the rest of us got none of!


--Ray Walston (as Mad Jack Duncan) in Paint Your Wagon