Adam Bonner Quotes in Adam's Rib (1949)

Beryl Caighn: She tried to shoot me.

Adam Bonner: How do you know that?

Beryl Caighn: Because she did.

Adam Bonner: No matter what you think you think, you think the same as I think.

Kip Lurie: Well, good luck tomorrow, Amanda. I'm on your side, I guess you know that. You've got me so convinced, I may even go out and become a woman. Goodnight.

[leaves]

Adam Bonner: And he wouldn't have far to go, either.

Amanda Bonner: Shh!

Adam Bonner: What's a matter?

Kip Lurie: [steps back into the kitchen and whispers] He can hear you.

Beryl Caighn: And then I heard a noise.

Adam Bonner: What kind of noise?

Beryl Caighn: Like a sound.

Adam Bonner: [takes a bite out of his fake gun] Licorice. If there's anything I'm a sucker for, it's licorice.

Adam Bonner: First of all, I should like to say that I think the arguments advanced by the counsel for the defense were sound... MERE sound!

Amanda Bonner: What I said was true, there's no difference between the sexes. Men, women, the same.

Adam Bonner: They are?

Amanda Bonner: Well, maybe there is a difference, but it's a little difference.

Adam Bonner: Well, you know as the French say...

Amanda Bonner: What do they say?

Adam Bonner: Vive la difference!

Amanda Bonner: Which means?

Adam Bonner: Which means hurrah for that little difference.

Adam Bonner: What do you want around here anyway?

Kip Lurie: As if you didn't already know.

[looks at Amanda]

Kip Lurie: Did I hear someone say "sing it again"?

Adam Bonner: No!

Amanda Bonner: [addressing the court] For years, women have been ridiculed, pampered, chucked under the chin. I ask you, on behalf of us all, be fair to the fair sex.

Adam Bonner: We'll be here a year.

Adam Bonner: Is that what they taught you at Yale Law School?

Adam Bonner: What are ya? Sore about a little slap?

Amanda Bonner: No.

Adam Bonner: Well, what then?

Amanda Bonner: [outraged] You meant that, didn't you? You really meant that.

Adam Bonner: Why, no, I...

Amanda Bonner: Yes, you did. I can tell. I know your type. I know a slap from a slug.

Adam Bonner: Well, OK, OK.

Amanda Bonner: I'm not so sure it is. I'm not so sure I care to expose myself to typical instinctive masculine brutality.

Adam Bonner: Oh come now.

Amanda Bonner: And it felt not only as though you meant it, but as though you felt you had a right to. I can tell.

Adam Bonner: What've you got back there? Radar equipment?