Dimples: I brought it back.
Mrs. Caroline Drew: Brought what back?
Dimples: The cuckoo clock. I stole it last night. It's a funny thing about me. I'm so wicked. Isn't it awful?
Mrs. Caroline Drew: You stole this?
Dimples: Right under your very nose. I really don't know what's to become of me, I'm so bad. The Professor says he doesn't know. He says I'm gonna wind up in the "pinchitentiary," if not in jail.
Mrs. Caroline Drew: Are you sure someone else didn't take this?
Dimples: Oh, my goodness! You don't mean the Professor, do you? He wouldn't take it, he's too honest! He made me bring it back!


--Shirley Temple (as Dimples Appleby) in Dimples

Dimples: I didn't steal anything. Honest, I didn't. I'm too little. Won't you let me go?
Mrs. Caroline Drew: Where would you go?
Dimples: Home.
Mrs. Caroline Drew: Where's home?
Dimples: With the Professor.
Mrs. Caroline Drew: The Professor? Who's the Professor?
Dimples: Oh, don't you know him? Why, everybody knows the Professor. He's a fine gentleman and an "aristocrack."


--Shirley Temple (as Dimples Appleby) in Dimples

Dimples: Mrs. Drew, do you still think I'm worth five thousand dollars?
Mrs. Caroline Drew: You're worth ever so much more, darling.
Dimples: And do you still want me to come and live with you?
Mrs. Caroline Drew: I'd like nothing more in the world.
Dimples: All right, I'll come. Do you have the five thousand dollars with you?


--Shirley Temple (as Dimples Appleby) in Dimples

Dimples: Sometimes I wonder if men are worth all the trouble they give us.


--Shirley Temple (as Dimples Appleby) in Dimples

Dimples: What's the matter?
Prof. Eustace Appleby: Everything's all right, dear. I just want to have a talk with these gentlemen here for a few minutes.
Policeman: Never mind that! He's under arrest for stealing a thousand dollars.
Prof. Eustace Appleby: But I didn't take the money for myself. I took it to pay Allen back. Really.
Policeman: Oh, come on!
Dimples: You leave him alone! He didn't steal anything from you!
Mrs. Caroline Drew: I'm sorry, darling, but you're better off without him.
Allen Drew: You'd better hurry, Dimples. It's almost time for the last act.
Dimples: No! I'm going to jail with the Professor!


--Shirley Temple (as Dimples Appleby) in Dimples

Dimples: Why did you take that clock?
Prof. Eustace Appleby: Clock? What clock? I remember no clock.
Dimples: The one you put your hat over. I saw you.
Prof. Eustace Appleby: Why, of course not. You ought to know that I wouldn't take a small clock like that. I - I mean, I wouldn't take any clock, large or small. After all, my dear child, I'm a musician, not a thief.
Dimples: All right, Professor.


--Shirley Temple (as Dimples Appleby) in Dimples

Dinah Sheldon: Now will you please go away.
Beau: No question. You need red there in the middle on the nose.
Mack: That nose is okay.
Beau: I don't wish to disagree with you Mack, but I seen much a painting, and the way that is, it ain't no good.
Mack: Looks good to me. Ain't that right?
Townsman: That's right.
Mack: Looks like you're wrong, Beau.
Beau: My dear Sir, when I'm wrong I'll let you know. That nose ain't no good without more red. See?
Mack: [paints Beau's nose red] Is that enough red for you?
Dinah Sheldon: Gentlemen, now please. Stop that, please gentlemen.


--Shirley Temple (as ) in Adventure in Baltimore

Elizabeth: [Extreme close-up and directly into the camera] Oh, my goodness!


--Shirley Temple (as Elizabeth Blair) in Curly Top

Elizabeth: I like to make things to eat, and I especially like to eat them.


--Shirley Temple (as Elizabeth Blair) in Curly Top

Elizabeth: Mary said that I was going to live in Jimmy's house. Does that mean that Jimmy's getting married to me, too?


--Shirley Temple (as Elizabeth Blair) in Curly Top