Funny movie quotes from The Lemon Drop Kid, starring Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, William Frawley, Fred Clark — Bob Hope plays a small-time con artist (The Lemon Drop Kid) who owes a crime boss (Fred Clark) more than he can pay back, and with the help of Marilyn Maxwell and William Frawley plans a con to raise the money and save his life.
Funny movie quotes from The Lemon Drop Kid
Moose: What’s the matter, Kid, you look kind of sick?
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope): No, I always turn green this time of year.
Race track guard 1: [about the Lemon Drop Kid] And to think that I bought one of his tips last week.
Race track guard 2: You, too?
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope): First doctor I ever met who keeps what he took out and threw the patient away!
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope): It’s all the same to you if Sam [the surgeon] kills me know or doesn’t open me ’til Christmas!
Sign: Nellie Thurston Home for Old Dolls
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope): That judge didn’t look honest to me!
Police officer: He’s been on the bar for fifteen years.
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope): That’s just what I mean! Drinking on the job!
Little Girl: Are you coming to my house Christmas eve?
Gloomy Willie (William Frawley): Sure!
Little Girl: Will you bring a doll?
Gloomy Willie (William Frawley): No, my doll’s working.
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope): [blowing snow off the head of a statue] Dandruff!
Gloomy Willie (William Frawley): What’s a cow doing inside a house?
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope): Milton Berle is on tonight.
Old woman: You’ve still got your hourglass figure, dear.
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope): [in drag, disguised as an old woman] Thank you, dear.
Old woman: but most of the sand has settled to the bottom.
Gloomy Willie (William Frawley): You’re sweet too, pickle-nose … bring the chair.
Sidney Melbourne (Bob Hope): Santy Claus don’t drink.
Gloomy Willie (William Frawley): Oh, no? Well, how come he’s always falling down chimneys?