Ducks and Drakes (1921)

Bebe Daniels: Teddy Simpson

Quotes 

• Teddy Simpson : Oh, Rob, you're as annoying as a - a wart!

• Dick Chiltern : [on the phone]  Who are you?

  Teddy Simpson : Just a lonely little girl who wants someone to talk to.

• Teddy Simpson : Moral: Don't go to weird places with strange men...

• Rob Winslow : Please, Teddy, set a date for our wedding.

  Teddy Simpson : What's the use of marrying you, Rob - you're always around anyway!

• Tom Hazzard : I'm writing an article on free love.

  Teddy Simpson : Free love! How terribly exciting!

• Teddy Simpson : You and Aunty just want to cage me, make me wear flat-heeled shoes and - and have a lot of babies!

• Teddy Simpson : [on the phone]  Dr. Small, I feel awfully queer - come right over.

• Teddy Simpson : [on the phone with Dick]  Is this you, Mr. XYZ? I wish I knew what you look like.

  Dick Chiltern : Oh, I'm a handsome young fellow, full of pep and crazy about the girls.

  Rob Winslow : [Hears Dick talking on the phone]  Dick, cut it out! You're too old for that sort of stuff.

  Dick Chiltern : [puts his hand over the phone - talking to Tweed]  Some little minx - got her on a crossed wire - been flirting ever since.

• Teddy Simpson : So you are Mr. X?

  Dick Chiltern : You are surprised at my age?

  Teddy Simpson : It was a bit of a shock.

  Dick Chiltern : There's lots of life in the old dog yet!

• Col. Tweed : [Pretending to be an escaped convict]  I've been in the pen for fifteen years! Gee, you're pretty!

  Teddy Simpson : You touch me, and I'll...

  Col. Tweed : The more you fight, the more I like it!

• Teddy Simpson : I've got the mumps! I can't go to lunch - I can't even eat pickles, can I, Doctor?

  Dick Chiltern : Pickles?

• Teddy Simpson : I won't let you examine me, Doctor, while Aunty Weeks is in the room - she embarrasses me.

• Teddy Simpson : [Rob offers a cigarette]  I only smoked because - people said I shouldn't.

• Teddy Simpson : I feel so wicked - I never did anything quite like this before.

• Teddy Simpson : Let's have luncheon. I have an awful hollow inside, and I'm dying to be a hostess.

• Teddy Simpson : I love the way your lashes curl. You know, Hazzy, there is something very strange about you! You've never tried to kiss me - and most of the boys I meet get fresh before I've known them five minutes!

  Tom Hazzard : Well, you're a very alluring young lady!

• Teddy Simpson : Hazzy, do you think it right for girls to be rushed into marriage - before they have had any experience at all?

• Teddy Simpson : I suppose I'm awfully wicked, but I really don't care what happens to me.

• Rob Winslow : What a pretty negligée!

  Teddy Simpson : And Aunt Weeks didn't want me to buy it.

  Rob Winslow : Why, you look lovely in it.

• Teddy Simpson : [Last line]  Rob dear, some day I'll tell you how you saved me from making ducks and drakes of my life.