Ali Hakim Quotes in Oklahoma! (1955)

Ali Hakim: I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.

Will Parker: I don't know what to make of you! You're too purty to be a skunk! Too thin to be a snake! To little to be a man, and too big to be a mouse! I reckon you're a rat!

Ali Hakim: That's logical.

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.

Ali Hakim: You'd hardly ever see your daughter no more!

Carnes: That'd be all right. Just take care of her, son.