Melody Allen Quotes in The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Melody Allen: Here's a horse pistol.

[Gives him the gun. Horatio turns to the horse behind him]

Horatio Prim: Here, this is for you.

Melody Allen: Horatio, be patient.

Horatio Prim: Be patient? Melody, do you realize that my Nora has been waiting on me for 165 years? And a girl will only wait so long, and no longer!

Melody Allen: [turning on the house's electric lights] Amazing... must've got it from Benjamin Franklin, he's always inventing things.

Horatio Prim: Cuthbert, Melody, it's Cuthbert! He's still alive!

Melody Allen: How can that be?

Horatio Prim: I don't know, they say only the good die young.

Melody Allen: I need help.

Horatio Prim: [With his head sticking out of a trunk] What do you think I need? Mistress Melody, would you help me get out of this overcoat?

Melody Allen: This is the first pleasure I've had in 165 years.

Melody Allen: [picks up a book] Tom Danbury's memoirs.

Horatio Prim: His grandmas?

Melody Allen: [Tom's voice is coming through Emily] Horatio, why can't I see him?

Horatio Prim: You poor kid, you can't. You see, he's got his wings, and we're still grounded.

Melody Allen: You know no self-respecting ghosts do any haunting before midnight.

Horatio Prim: Alright, I'll wait. But tonight, I haunt!