Sylvia Blair: What do you suppose it'll be like here next Christmas when we're gone? Do you think EMERAC will throw a party?
Ruthie Saylor: Oh, don't talk that way. It's bad luck to talk like that. It's Christmas!
Bunny Watson: It's Christmas.
Peg Costello: Well, if we do get canned, we won't be the only ones to lose our jobs because of a machine.


--Joan Blondell (as Peg Costello) in Desk Set

Alice Hughes: People don't marry crooners. They only divorce them.


--Joan Blondell (as ) in Broadway Gondolier

Ann Nelson: Oh, Michael! I thought I was going to lose you because you were a rich man and now you haven't got a quarter! Isn't it wonderful?


--Joan Blondell (as Ann Nelson) in Christmas Eve

Crystal St. Clair: I'm a girl. An old girl, mind you, but a girl nonetheless. There's certain things we don't tell guys.


--Joan Blondell (as ) in This Could Be the Night

Crystal St. Clair: In order to have a stove delivered at 7 AM, who did you have to promise what?


--Joan Blondell (as ) in This Could Be the Night

Lee Morgan: I guess that wasn't poetry about friends finding an easy place to break your back.


--Joan Blondell (as Lee Morgan) in Bullets or Ballots

Lee Morgan: Well, it's time you got wise to yourself. Around this town the only reason friends pat you on the back is to find an easy place to break it.


--Joan Blondell (as Lee Morgan) in Bullets or Ballots

Mary Keaton, aka Mary Bernard: [At the State Reform School for girls, an inmate is at the piano singing the song "Diane", which includes the lyric "I'm in heaven when I see you smile".] Will ya stop remindin' me of heaven... when I'm so close to the other place?
Prisoner at Checkers Table: What's the matter Mary? Don't you like our little hotel?
Mary Keaton, aka Mary Bernard: Oh, I think it's swell. The ventilation is great, my room has a southern exposure, the rates are cheap, but somehow or other the atmosphere is too confining.
Fat Prisoner: Don't let it getcha down, kid. At least we don't have to wait in line for a bowl of soup like they do outside.
Mrs. Black, Prisoner at Checkers Table: Don't be always a-stewin', dearie. You only get your insides in an uproar, and for what? You're in and you're gonna stay in till they get even with ya for bustin' the rules.
Mary Keaton, aka Mary Bernard: Yeah, I'm in alright, but that don't mean I hafta like it.


--Joan Blondell (as Mary Keaton) in Three on a Match

Mary Keaton, aka Mary Bernard: Will you stop remindin' me of Heaven when I'm so close to the other place?


--Joan Blondell (as Mary Keaton) in Three on a Match

Mary Keaton, aka Mary Bernard: You're a fool, Vivian. Take it from someone who's been one.


--Joan Blondell (as Mary Keaton) in Three on a Match