Hot Pepper (1933)

Edmund Lowe: Harry Quirt

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Quotes 

• Jim Flagg : Remember Olga in Russia?

  Harry Quirt : Sure! I remember her. The minute she saw me, she gave you the gate.

  Jim Flagg : What are you talking about? Why, I had her in the palm of me hand.

  Harry Quirt : Yeah? Well you ought to seen where I had her.

• Jim Flagg : Where did you learn to speak Chinese?

  Harry Quirt : Night school, old boy, night school. Come here. Meet Madame Butterfly. Come on out, Half Moon.

  [backs out of the car] 

• Harry Quirt : He still don't know where the Declaration of Independence was signed.

  Jim Flagg : Well, wise guy, where was it signed?

  Harry Quirt : At the bottom, fat head, at the bottom!

• Harry Quirt : Flagg, if you want to go into big business, I'll make you my partner.

  Jim Flagg : Partner! You're the kind of a guy that would give me half of everything I got.

• Harry Quirt : There's one girl you didn't muscle in on.

  Opening Title Card : I must have been out of form that night.

  Harry Quirt : She gave me this garter. You didn't steal her! The next time we meet, she's gonna give me the other one.

  Opening Title Card : You won't have to wait that long.

  [holds up a garter] 

• Olsen : Your boyfriends kind of free with his hands.

  Harry Quirt : He'll take anything that's free.

• Harry Quirt : You aren't angry, are you baby?

  Hortense : No, just reserved.

  Harry Quirt : Sure! Reserved for me!

• Harry Quirt : Did you say you were buyin' this?

  Jim Flagg : Yeah.

  Harry Quirt : Waiter, the best laughing water you got in the house and plenty of giggles in it.

• Harry Quirt : Well, well, well, big business, huh?

  Jim Flagg : Sure.

  Harry Quirt : Well, I'm glad to hear it, Flagg ole boy. Good luck to you, ole pal. Now, listen, what you really need is guy like me to take care of your business.

  Jim Flagg : Yeah? What I really need is a guy like you to take care of your own business!

• Jim Flagg : How about five grand?

  Harry Quirt : I can't hear ya. You'll have to talk twice as loud.

  Jim Flagg : All right. All right. Come in the office and I'll give you an earful.

  Harry Quirt : Okay, your Flaggship.

• Jim Flagg : There's your money! You dodgy, double-crossing, buzzard, you. You no darn lyin' pickpocket! You big - I wish I could think of something dirty to call you!

  Harry Quirt : Why don't you think of your undershirt.

• Lily : Where's Flagg?

  Harry Quirt : He's at half mast. I mean, he's detained on business. He can't go with us.

• Harry Quirt : Well, did you dig up some nice place to take me?

  Hortense : Did I! When it comes to digging up places, I'm a regular archeologist.

  Harry Quirt : Yeah, well, I don't know what that is. But, if she's one of 'em too, all I can say is, let nature take it's course.

• Hortense : [slaps Quirt]  I thought you told me that was a parlor story.

  Harry Quirt : It is! I heard it in a pool parlor.

• Harry Quirt : Now, don't let me down on this, will you babe?

  Hortense : Well, I'll try not to; but, I'm not feeling myself tonight.

  Harry Quirt : You don't have to. I'll attend to that later.

• Trigger Thorne : Too bad, Quirt. Here's five bucks. Say, I don't want to see you go home broke.

  Harry Quirt : You got a heart like a green pea.

• Pepper : Who is it and what do you want?

  Harry Quirt : Is that you, sweet stuff?

  Pepper : Oh, hello, handsome!

• Pepper : Gee, your heart is beating so fast! It sounds like a drum.

  Harry Quirt : Honey, that's the call to arms.

• Harry Quirt : Hey, you want take a little ride with me?

  Pepper : No fooling?

  Harry Quirt : Oh, that's up to you.

• Harry Quirt : Go on, take a peek back there. See if he's comin'.

  Pepper : Yes, he is.

  Harry Quirt : Is he comin' up on us?

  Pepper : Yes.

• Harry Quirt : Get in the back of the car, Hot Stuff. Hurry up.

• Harry Quirt : Lay low, Hot Stuff, lay low.

• Hortense : Oh, this is awful. I was never so humiliated!

  Harry Quirt : You're right. The humidity is terrible.

• Harry Quirt : That was a fast one I pulled on the cops.

  Jim Flagg : Pulled on the cops?

  Harry Quirt : Sure! I didn't want them to know you were smugglin' in that Hot Tamale!

  Jim Flagg : I didn't smuggler her in. And I never want to see her again! Where is she?

• Jim Flagg : You've met the girls.

  Hortense : Why, yes! Remember? That was the night I powdered my nose.

  Harry Quirt : Yeah and you dropped your shoulder strap and I lost my pants.

• Jim Flagg : I saw her first!

  Harry Quirt : Yeah? Well, I saw her possibilities!

  Jim Flagg : I wouldn't be surprised at anything you saw.

  Harry Quirt : And here's hoping I see more and more of it!

• Harry Quirt : All right, Hot Stuff, you're Papa's ready whenever you are

• Jim Flagg : I came back to get my little Hot Tamale.

  Harry Quirt : You're on the outside lookin' in, Admiral. I'm gonna take the Hot Tamale to South America and marry her.

  Jim Flagg : Yeah? Well, I'm gonna marry her and then take her back to South America.

• Jim Flagg : Wait a minute, wait a minute. I'll toss it and you call it.

  Harry Quirt : Okay. Heads. I win.

  Jim Flagg : Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Let's look at that coin. Wait a minute. Two heads on the same coin!

  Harry Quirt : Well, two heads are better than one.

• Harry Quirt : Roll out these men and present arms.

  Jim Flagg : I can't do anything with 'em. I can't speak Chinese.

  Harry Quirt : No? Will you could if you didn't do your own laundry.

• Jim Flagg : Up to your old tricks again, eh?

  Harry Quirt : No, I got a lot of new ones.

• Harry Quirt : Arsenic to you!

• Harry Quirt : Ah, nuts!

  Jim Flagg : Ah, phooey!