Lilli Vanessi: Do you really think *I* could play the shrew?
Fred Graham: You'd make a perfect shrew!


--Howard Keel (as Fred Graham 'Petruchio') in Kiss Me, Kate

Annie Oakley: [calling after Frank as he's walking away] Hey, mister...? Don't you like girls?
Frank Butler: [not comprehendeding the question] Well... sure!
Annie Oakley: [realizing it herself] I'm a girl.
Frank Butler: [laughing condescendingly as he walks away] That's fine.


--Howard Keel (as Frank Butler) in Annie Get Your Gun

Gideon: Adam, you're my eldest brother. Now I've always looked up to ya, tried to ape ya. But today I'm ashamed of you. Now I know you can lick me, lick the tar outta me! But I wouldn't hold myself no kinda man unless I showed ya how I felt!
[punches him]
Adam: Why you...!
[throws him on horse, hands him reigns]
Adam: Now, GIT!
[slaps horse]


--Howard Keel (as Adam) in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Milly: Well, it wouldn't hurt you to learn some manners, too.
Adam: What do I need manners for? I already got me a wife.


--Howard Keel (as Adam) in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Adam: [singing to Gideon about being in love] How can you tell what's in its spell? How can you tell unless you've tried it? Wait for that kiss you're certain of. And let your heart decide when you're in love.


--Howard Keel (as Adam) in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Adam: [to Gideon] What's the matter with you? Someone butt you in the bread basket?


--Howard Keel (as Adam) in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Adam: Love is like the measles. You only get it once, and the older you are, the harder you take it.


--Howard Keel (as Adam) in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Adam: What do you call her?
Milly: I was thinking of some name like Hannah or Hagar or Hephzibah, picking up where your mother left off.
Adam: Hannah.
Milly: Hannah.
Adam: I got to thinking up at the cabin, about the baby. How I'd feel if someone came creeping in and carried her off. I'd string him up the nearest tree. I'd shoot him down as I would a thieving fox.


--Howard Keel (as Adam) in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Adam: You're beating your head against a stone wall, Milly. You'll never make jackadandies out of them!


--Howard Keel (as Adam) in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Levi Walking Bear: Dumb Indians!
Taw Jackson: Looks like they're getting ready to move out.
Levi Walking Bear: They are. Squaws, old men, children - Pierce has starved them out. He'll have all the land now.
Taw Jackson: What about Wild Horse?
Levi Walking Bear: He and the warriors are stayin', but Pierce will hunt them down, too. Dumb Indians.
Taw Jackson: And you're smart?
Levi Walking Bear: Sure! Because I've learned to live in the white man's world and do what they do. Grab all you can, anytime you can.


--Howard Keel (as Levi Walking Bear) in The War Wagon