Jamesy MacArdle Quotes in China Seas (1935)

Dolly 'China Doll' Portland: Say, there ain't enough dough in all Asia to make me change the way I feel about one guy.

Jamesy MacArdle: Still crazy about that Gaskell, huh? Well, whenever you get tired of running around with an Airedale and you want to run around with a St. Bernard, why you let me know.

Dolly 'China Doll' Portland: Sure. Whenever I get lost in the Alps, I'll whistle for you.

Jamesy MacArdle: All right, I'll come running.

Jamesy MacArdle: [to an unconcious Gaskell] There can't be any gold. You would have talked. Nobody can be that tough.

Jamesy MacArdle: Lovin' you is the only decent thing I ever did in my entire life. And even that was a mistake.

Captain Alan Gaskell: They got big feet for Sing-Song Girls, don't they?

Jamesy MacArdle: Well, they, they don't bandage the feet nowadays. These are enlightened days.

Captain Alan Gaskell: Those feet are big even for enlightened days.

Jamesy MacArdle: Twenty years on the China Seas and she never lost a spangle.

McCaleb: I had a spangle once. It was a cocka spangle. She had a liter of field mice.

Dolly 'China Doll' Portland: Say, speakin' of meetings, Jamesy, do you remember that night in that putang joint in Saigon when you and me met up with a certain party?

Jamesy MacArdle: Oh, do I!

Dolly 'China Doll' Portland: There wasn't any moon, but, he had a shiner on his left eye that lit up the whole street!

Dolly 'China Doll' Portland: Come on, Jamesy! We're off again. The greatest game in the world, that makes men remember and women forget!

Jamesy MacArdle: I'll play this game until you can't remember anything but your little Jamesy.

Jamesy MacArdle: You with me?

Dolly 'China Doll' Portland: It's a tough ocean to try to swim in.

Jamesy MacArdle: You just sit tight and keep a stiff upper lip.

Dolly 'China Doll' Portland: All right, Bozo. Order me an upper and lower and I'll keep 'em both stiff.

Jamesy MacArdle: One of those pills will make a pig sleep the entire voyage. I'll sleep until kingdom come.