Four Girls in White (1939)

Kent Taylor: Robert Maitland

Quotes 

• Robert Maitland : I want a male nurse!

  Norma Page : Why, I'm sure you'll find us just as efficient.

  Robert Maitland : I don't care. I don't want a woman nurse!

• Robert Maitland : Oh, will you go away!

  Norma Page : Oh, be quiet and stop acting like a pest. You're not in a nightclub now, you're in a hospital and nobody here cares who you are! You're just another noisy, complaining patient!

  Robert Maitland : Say, where are you going?

  Norma Page : To inform the superintendent that you only want men around you to protect you from designing women, I suppose. Well, let me tell you, Mr. Maitland, we're not women, we're nurses!

• Robert Maitland : Will you get my cigarettes for me?

  Norma Page : It's against the rules to smoke in bed.

  Robert Maitland : Miss Page, is it against the rules to ask you to fix my pillow?

  [Miss Page leans over to adjust his pillow] 

  Robert Maitland : Mmm-hmm. Just as I thought. You're as pretty close up than you are across the room.

• Norma Page : Pat, you make me feel like a Christmas Tree! Why don't you dress for dinner?

  Patricia Page : Should I put on my war paint and my $10 evening dress and dazzle you?

  Robert Maitland : Pat, you don't have to put on your war paint to dazzle me.

  Patricia Page : Oh, don't I?

  Robert Maitland : [looks at Norma]  I'm dazzled already.

• Patricia Page : I love to swim and fish and go exploring.

  Robert Maitland : Well, I thought ladies preferred pretty clothes and parties and romance?

  Patricia Page : Oh, they're nice too, I guess.

  Robert Maitland : You guess? You mean you've never had a romance?

  [Pat shakes her head no and Robert laughs] 

  Robert Maitland : You're a funny kid, Pat.

• Robert Maitland : Nice, isn't it?

  Patricia Page : Oh, it's swell!

• Norma Page : Oh!

  Robert Maitland : You'll come, won't you?

  Norma Page : Yes. Yes, I'll come.

  Robert Maitland : Swell.

• Robert Maitland : Say, you're the cutest kid I've ever seen in my life. And just to prove it -

  [kisses Pat] 

  Robert Maitland : There. Now, that's to teach you not to trifle with susceptible young men.

  Patricia Page : Oh, yes, it won't, will it. I mean, it will, won't it. Oh! Oh!

• Robert Maitland : Why all this sudden interest in graduating? I thought you didn't care a hoot about nursing.

  Norma Page : Well, sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until we're about to lose it.