Funny movie quotes from The Young in Heart, starring Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roland Young, Billie Burke, Paulette Goddard
Funny movie quotes from The Young in Heart, a very funny movie about a family of four grifters, who save the life of an elderly spinster. They pretend to be upstanding citizens in order to maintain their con, but slowly begin to change …
Marmy Carleton (Billie Burke): The sahib doesn’t believe in unemployment.
Mrs. Jennings: He doesn’t?
Marmy Carleton (Billie Burke): He thinks it should all be done away with.
Mrs. Jennings: How interesting!
Marmy Carleton (Billie Burke): He says the only way to do away with unemployment is to do away with employment. If nobody worked, there couldn’t be any unemployment, and so the sahib hasn’t done a speck of work in four years.
Leslie Saunders (Paulette Goddard): Well, what can you do besides look rather too good-looking?
Richard Carleton (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.): Well, I… I’m, a championship swimmer, play a rattling good game of tennis, fair golf, and I rumba like the angel Gabriel.
Duncan Macrae: You’re a bad mannered, bad-tempered, outrageous female, but I have discovered that I cannot live without you.
Richard Carleton (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.): Do you think people ever change?
George-Anne Carleton (Janey Gaynor): Not us… ever. We just aren’t any good.
Richard Carleton (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.): I think I am.
George-Anne Carleton (Janey Gaynor): Don’t make me tired.
Richard Carleton (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.): Don’t hydraulic engineers ever rumba?
Leslie Saunders (Paulette Goddard): Rarely, and not very well.
Marmy Carleton (Billie Burke): My little girl’s going to have a birthday this year.
Miss Fortune: Wasn’t it Rossetti who said something like that somewhere? Beauty, without the beloved is a sword through the heart.”
George-Anne Carleton (Janey Gaynor): Did you ever know anybody who married for love?