Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: I'm curious to know how you were led astray.
Robber: Well, I began life as a little boy--
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: I'm glad to hear that you kept to the same sex.
Robber: Yes. It's a family tradition.


--William Powell (as The Robber) in Jewel Robbery

Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: Oh, they're too heavenly! This necklace--where did you get it?
Robber: At a charity ball.
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels: What courage!
Robber: No, merely nimble fingers. The lady stood beside me. The Prince of Wales was announced. I could have removed her dress.


--William Powell (as The Robber) in Jewel Robbery

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: [after he has hired Jack Billings' valet away from him] Gentlemen never argue about gentlemen's gentlemen.


--William Powell (as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.) in The Great Ziegfeld

Robber: As a matter of fact, I'm opposed to the American school of banditry. I studied in Paris. You have to work harder but you do acquire a certain finesse that is missing from the stick-em-up and shoot-them-down school.


--William Powell (as The Robber) in Jewel Robbery

Sampson: This is about talent.
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Something good and cheap no doubt?
Sampson: Exactly! It's a young girl named Brice... Fanny... Fanny Brice. She;s working in burlesque.
Gene Buck: Say, I've seen that girl, Flo!
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Pretty?
Gene Buck: Well, yes and no. Shut your eyes and listen - yes! Open 'em and look - no, but a great performer!
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: We shall have a look at her at once - tonight!


--William Powell (as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.) in The Great Ziegfeld

Hotel doorman: Do you realize you gave me five pounds?
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Yes, I'm trying to lose weight.


--William Powell (as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.) in The Great Ziegfeld

Nora Charles: Nicky... Nicky, put Asta in here with me tonight.
Nick Charles: [chuckles] Oh, yeah?
[throws Asta in the other bunk]


--William Powell (as Nick Charles) in The Thin Man