Harold Hill: I always think there's a band, kid.


--Robert Preston (as Harold Hill) in The Music Man

Harold Hill: Ladies and gentlemen, either you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge, or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated by the presence of a pool table in your community!


--Robert Preston (as Harold Hill) in The Music Man

Harold Hill: Mothers of River City, heed that warning before it's too late! Watch for the telltale signs of corruption! The minute your son leaves the house, does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee? Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger? A dime-novel hidden in the corncrib? Is he starting to memorize jokes from Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang? Are certain words creeping into his conversation? Words like "swell" and "so's your old man"? If so my friends, ya got trouble!


--Robert Preston (as Harold Hill) in The Music Man

Harold Hill: Oh this is a refined operation son, and I've got it timed down to the last wave of the brakeman's hand on the last train outta town.


--Robert Preston (as Harold Hill) in The Music Man

Harold Hill: Think, boys. Think!


--Robert Preston (as Harold Hill) in The Music Man

James Cloud: Well come on Boyce, Did I kill Kid Amador or not?
Earl Boyce: Why?... Can't you remember?
James Cloud: It escapes me.


--Robert Preston (as James Cloud) in The Sundowners

John Graham: [looks at the crossword his wife has been doing] Well... you've filled in nine words... You must have been here for hours.


--Robert Preston (as ) in Cloudburst

Murray Sinclair: Guys like Smitty they don't make anymore!


--Robert Preston (as Murray Sinclair) in Whispering Smith

Pvt. Aloysius K. 'Smacksie' Randall: [Dressed in civilian clothes] World, her I cpme!


--Robert Preston (as Pvt. Joe Doyle) in Wake Island

Pvt. Aloysius K. 'Smacksie' Randall: The dumber those guys get, the more stripes you get.
Pvt. Joe Doyle: You oughta look like a zebra.


--Robert Preston (as Pvt. Joe Doyle) in Wake Island