David Huxley: The only way you'll ever get me to follow another of your suggestions is to hold a bright object in front of my eyes and twirl it.


--Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby

David Huxley: Well, I might have known you were here. I had a feeling just as I hit the floor!


--Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby

David Huxley: Well, there aren't any lights in the window. Mr. Peabody must have gone to bed.
Susan Vance: Oh no, he couldn't have gone to bed this soon, it's too early.
David Huxley: Oh I don't know. If they expected a visit from you, they could -- with the covers over their heads!


--Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby

David Huxley: Well, you don't understand. This is MY car.
Susan Vance: You mean THIS is your car?
David Huxley: Of course.
Susan Vance: Your golf ball? Your car? Is there anyting in the world that doesn't below to you?
David Huxley: Yes, thank heaven, YOU!


--Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby

David Huxley: What do you want?
Mrs. Random: Well who are you?
David Huxley: Who are you?
Mrs. Random: Well, who are you?
David Huxley: What do you want?


--Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby

David Huxley: Where is it?
Susan Vance: Where's what?
David Huxley: My intercostal clavicle!
Susan Vance: You're what?
David Huxley: My bone. It's rare. It's precious. What did you do with it?


--Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby

Jim Blandings: $7,000? I wouldn't put seven cents into this broken down rat trap.
Muriel Blandings: Jim, how can you talk that way? This is our home. Betsy was practically born in this apartment.
Jim Blandings: That does not make it a national shrine!


--Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Jim Blandings: Anybody who builds a house today is crazy. The minute you start, they put you on the list -- the all-American sucker list! You start out to build a home and you wind up in the poor house! And if it can happen to me, what about the fellows who aren't making $15,000 a year? What about the kids who just got married and want a home of their own? It's a conspiracy I tell you -- a conspiracy against every boy and girl who were ever in love!


--Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Jim Blandings: For 15 years I've been couped up in a 4-room cracker box. Just getting showered in the morning entitles a man to the Purple Heart.


--Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Jim Blandings: I mean the moment I turn my back, Bill Cole's driving you someplace or something.
Muriel Blandings: He's only being helpful.
Jim Blandings: I thought he was a lawyer. Why isn't he out suing somebody?


--Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House