Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker Quotes in Little Miss Marker (1934)

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Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker Quotes:

  • Marky's Father: Look, this is my little girl. I'll leave her here while I go for the money.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I ain't taking no dolls for security.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Look, Daddy, he's running away. Is he afraid?

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Take her down off there. You get down off there.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You're afraid of my daddy. Or you're afraid of me. You're afraid of something.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: All right, take his marker. A little doll like this is worth twenty bucks any way you look at it.

    Regret: Yeah, she ought to melt down for that much.

  • Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You are Lady Guinevere.

    Doc Chesley: King Arthur's Lady Guinevere?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You know about it, too?

    Doc Chesley: Yes.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Did you ever break a lance for a lady fair?

    Doc Chesley: Not recently. Who is Sir Gallahad, Marky?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: He's the best of all. I haven't seen him around here. But I know who you are.

    Doc Chesley: Yes?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You are the kind keeper.

    Bangles Carson: The kind keeper of what, Marky?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Of the charger. The horse the princess rides.

    Bangles Carson: Who told you about all this?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: My mommy used to read to me about King Arthur.

    Bangles Carson: Where is your mother, Marky?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: My mommy got awfully tired, and went away. She's never coming back anymore.

  • Regret: Ah, kid, don't cry. Sorrowful didn't mean anything.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: He doesn't like me.

    Regret: He don't even like himself.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I want my daddy!

  • Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: What's the matter now?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You don't like me!

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You always cry when somebody doesn't like you?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Yes!

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Well, you got a lot of crying to do. Now go to sleep.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: My mommy used to read to me about King Arthur every night before I went to sleep.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Now, Marky, be reasonable.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I won't!

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: All right, all right.

  • Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Talking like that ain't nice.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: What's nice?

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Being a good girl is nice.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I'm a bad girl. Nurse says so.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Why?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Nurse says there's somebody named God, and a girl's bad if she does't pray to Him every night. Daddy says there's nobody named God.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: When did he say that?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: When my mommy went away.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I guess your daddy got a bad break.

  • Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Can you write a letter to God like you do to Santa Claus?

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No, that's where praying comes in.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Bad girls like me can't pray.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Aw, you ain't a bad girl.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Then show me how to pray. I want to ask God for something.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You would. You lay down and go to sleep.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Regret knows everything. I'll ask Regret to show me how to pray.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Don't you go asking that mug Regret about anything. I'll show you how to pray.

  • Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Trying to hand me mush!

    Bangles Carson: Don't you like it?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: No!

    Bangles Carson: Say, "No, thank you." Say it like this: "No, thank you, Bangles. I don't care for any."

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: What for?

    Bangles Carson: Well, you used to say "thank you" and "no, thank you."

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I used to be a sissy.

    Bangles Carson: Now where did you get that?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Ain't telling! And I don't want no mush!

    Bangles Carson: Don't you like me anymore?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Well...

    Bangles Carson: You used to like me when I was Lady Guinevere.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: [laughs] There's no Lady Guinevere.

    Bangles Carson: Oh yes there is, dear. Just like there's a Charger.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: There ain't no Charger.

    Bangles Carson: But you saw him.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: They took him away.

  • Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: All right, get out of bed. I'll show you how to pray, sort of. But don't you tell anybody, see?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Is it a secret?

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Between you and me. Kneel down. Put your hands together like this. Elbows on the bed. Shut your eyes.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Are you gonna shut yours, too?

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No. I gotta see that you do it right.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Now what do I do?

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Say like this: Now I lay me down to sleep,

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Now I lay me down to sleep,

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: If I should die before I wake,

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: If I should die before I wake,

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: I pray the Lord my soul to take.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I pray the Lord my soul to take.

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Make me a good little girl.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: [to Sorrowful] You wanna be a little girl?

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No, no. Make *you* a good little girl.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: [praying] Make me a good little girl.

    [to Sorrowful]

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Is that all?

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: That's the works.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: But when do I ask for what I want?

    Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You better do it right now, while your prayer's still hot.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: [praying] Please, God, buy Sir Sorry a new suit of clothes.

  • Bangles Carson: Why aren't you asleep?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Aw, lay off me.

  • Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I know you! You are the Black Knight.

    Dizzy Memphis: Oh, go on, child. I'm black day and night.

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Where's your charger?

    Dizzy Memphis: Huh?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: The one with white spots and pointed ears.

    Dizzy Memphis: Huh?

    Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I'm the princess!

    Dizzy Memphis: Yes ma'am, princess.

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