Ado Annie Carnes Quotes in Oklahoma! (1955)

Will Parker: Now that I got that fifty dollars, you name the date.

Ado Annie Carnes: August 15th.

Will Parker: Why August 15th?

Ado Annie Carnes: Because that was the first day I'se kissed!

Will Parker: Oh was it? I didn't remember that!

Ado Annie Carnes: You wasn't there.

Ado Annie Carnes: He called me his Persian kitten!

Carnes: what'd you call her that for?

Ali Hakim: Ohh - I don't remember...

Ado Annie Carnes: I do! He said I's like a Persian kitten cause they is the cats with the soft round tails!

Carnes: [cocking his gun] That's enough. In this country that better be a proposal of marriage.

Ali Hakim: It's a wonderful thing to be married. I got a brother in Persia got six wives.

Ado Annie Carnes: Six wives all at once?

Will Parker: Why, sure. That's the way they do in them countries.

Ali Hakim: Not always; I got a brother in Persia only got one wife. He's a bachelor.

Ado Annie Carnes: Sometimes there seems like times that men ain't got no need for women.

Dancer: There's sometimes women ain't got no need for men.

Ado Annie Carnes: Yeah, but who wants to be dead?