Ma Kettle Quotes in Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)

Mrs. Birdie Hicks: [after getting the Kettles evicted] Good day.

Ma Kettle: [grabs Birdie] Listen here Birdie, it may be a good day for you, but it ain't for Pa. All the poor man wanted was a new tobacco pouch and instead he won a house he didn't want and he got a bad sunburn.

Ma Kettle: Now hang on there, Billy.

Danny Kettle: I'm Danny!

Ma Kettle: Nancy... Nancy hold still!

Susie Kettle: I'm Susie, Ma.

Ma Kettle: [about Pa's underwear] It's the latest thing, Billy Reed said they'd fit perfectly.

Pa Kettle: They probably would if he were in them with me!

Ma Kettle: [laughs] Well, we'll just pin them up for right now, they'll shrink once I wash them.

Ma Kettle: [she and Pa are watching themselves on the news, and they're showing more children than just their 15] Turn that thing off before our family gets any bigger!

Pa Kettle: Three bathrooms and I still can't get in.

Ma Kettle: Ya got to expect that when ya got 15 kids.

Pa Kettle: Maybe we should have had less kids and more bathrooms.

Ma Kettle: [looks at the low cut dress on the hostess] That's a pretty dress you've got on... too bad the top wasn't finished in time for the party.