When mother boasts cheerfully, "Johnny is just crazy about his new little sister. . . . You love her, don't you, dear?" Johnny has...n't much choice but to lie like a gentleman . . . and then he begins to worry that something terrible may happen to little sister. She might get eaten by a stray tiger or fall into a tub of scalding water. . . . It doesn't often occur to that grownup to wonder why tigers and tubs of scalding water are all of a sudden wandering around the house waiting for an unwary moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Johnny Rocco: Yeah, yeah, that's me. Sure, I was all of those things. And more! When Rocco talked everybody shut up and listened! ...What Rocco said went! Nobody was as big as Rocco! It'll be like that again only more so. I'll be back up there one of these days, and then you're really gonna see something! James Temple (with contempt): If the time ever comes when your kind can walk a city street in daylight with nothing to fear from the people.... Frank McCloud: The time has come, Mr. Temple. It's here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate, Of the days of that old gentleman who had that old estate;... When they spent the public money at a bountiful old rate On ev'ry mistress, pimp, and scamp, at ev'ry noble gate, In the fine old English Tory times;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were... priests in the temple of Solomon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Johnny Clay: You like money. You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart. So play it smart. Stay in charac...ter and you'll have money. Plenty of it. George'll have it and he'll blow it on you. Probably buy himself a five-cent cigar. Sherry Peatty: You don't know me very well, Johnny. I wouldn't think of letting George throw his money away on cigars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »