Four's a Crowd (1938)

Rosalind Russell: Jean Christy

Quotes 

• Jean Christy : I'll be a fool. I'm in love with a man whom I dislike intensely, who'd cheat me, who'd lie to me, whom I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw the Queen Mary. I hate myself for it, but, I can't help it.

  Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford : Jean, hold everything. You - you don't mean me?

  Jean Christy : Does the description fit, big lug?

• Patterson 'Pat' Buckley : I fired him for reasons private, but, sufficient.

  Jean Christy : Well, you mean that time he saved you from marrying the girl that turned out to be the full-blooded Indian?

  Patterson 'Pat' Buckley : You know everything, don't you.

  Jean Christy : Well, that's what you pay me for.

• Jean Christy : Mr. Buckley, I don't wear pants; but, I'm a newspaperman.

• Jean Christy : Oh, Mr. Buckley, please. You may be a social lion to your friends, but, to me - you're just an animal cracker.

• Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford : Miss Christy, I understand perfectly well the delicacy of your feelings, but, don't quibble. Your silly heart is wrapped up in your employer. Some interloper has crashed your heaven and you've come to one you feel can help.

  Jean Christy : Oh, Mr. Lansford, you're wonderful.

  Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford : Miss Christy, I'm incredible. There are some things I don't know much about. But, I have a knowledge of women that few men have possessed.

• Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford : Lorri may never know, old boy, she's going out of town.

  Patterson 'Pat' Buckley : She is not! How do you know?

  Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford : I advised her to, after I showed her those letters you wrote that fan dancer last year.

  Jean Christy : Oh, he didn't.

  Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford : He did. She's going out of town to decide whether she should really marry you or not.

• Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford : Jean, I wish it weren't this way between us. I wish we could trust each other.

  Jean Christy : Then you shouldn't lead the sort of life you do. You play hopscotch from one double-cross to another.

• Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford : Promise?

  Jean Christy : Promise.

  Robert Kensington 'Bob' Lansford : On your word or honor?

  Jean Christy : On your word of honor.

• Jean Christy : [on the phone]  Did Hymie get there with the picture of the colored bootblack? Good. Slap it all over the front page with a Special Edition. Call in a rewrite man and give him this stuff for a story: This broken-down colored gentlemen is the H. Louis Brown who Lansford claims is donating millions of dollars to a charity clinic.