The Patsy (1928)
Dell Henderson: Pa Harrington
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Quotes
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Ma Harrington : My neck hurts. I think I've dislocated my vertebrae again.
Pa Harrington : Never mind the symptoms - - you can have the couch. Maybe you don't believe it, but I've had a pain the neck ever since we married.
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Pa Harrington : Your ma has her good points, Pat.
Patricia Harrington : She sure has. They stick out all over her.
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Pa Harrington : [berating Ma] I wouldn't ask a dog to live in this house. As far as that's concerned, a dog wouldn't do it. We never were able to keep a dog. Every dog we ever owned ran away with a tramp.
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Pa Harrington : I saw the slickest movie last night and the girl in it sure knew her onions.
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Ma Harrington : Don't say ain't.
Pa Harrington : I've said ain't for twenty-five years.
Ma Harrington : That ain't so!
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Patricia Harrington : Star light, star bright; First star I've seen tonight. Wish I may, wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight.
Pa Harrington : What did you wish, Baby?
Patricia Harrington : I wish I were beautiful and seductive.
Pa Harrington : You are, Baby - - you're marvelous.
Patricia Harrington : You think so, Pop, but nobody else does. I'd like to be entrancing, alluring, ravishing - like a stocking advertisement.
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Pa Harrington : For twenty-five years you've been whining and nagging and bawling and making everybody's life miserable...
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Patricia Harrington : But, Pop, I do love ma.
Pa Harrington : So do I, dammit.
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Pa Harrington : I'll sit down - - but I won't stand for anything.
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Pa Harrington : Where's Pat?
Ma Harrington : Upstairs moping around...
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Pa Harrington : Let ma keep on thinking you're a bit cuckoo and you can do anything you want to.