Melody Jones Quotes in Along Came Jones (1945)

George Fury: Get your dumb thumb out of my eye!

Melody Jones: I was just trying to see if you was dead.

George Fury: Well, I ain't! And I don't like someone trying to gouge my eye out.

George Fury: Now wait a minute, Melody. You ain't got to be no dumber than necessary.

Melody Jones: That would make me somebody, wouldn't it?

George Fury: Who is it?

Melody Jones: That used to be Packard, the Express Company fella.

George Fury: Well that cinched the duck! Now they got a corpus delicti!

Melody Jones: A what?

George Fury: A dead body! That's the way the law says it. Corpus delicti. Means that if they got a corpse, you're delicti! Before this, even if they hung ya, we could have proved it was a mistake.

Melody Jones: But you don't want to forget: when a posse makes a mistake, it's a mighty hard thing to unmake.

Melody Jones: Pa gave me a piece of advice that ain't never failed me yet. Son, he says, if you ever fool around with a woman, always hide a dollar in the toe of your boot and you'll come out a dollar to the good. That is, Pa says, if you keep your boots on.

George Fury: Who is she?

Melody Jones: I've never seen her before.

George Fury: That time in Cheyenne when you was kicked in the head and you was missing four days... are you sure you didn't marry somebody while you was out of your head?

Melody Jones: I wasn't that far out of my head!

Melody Jones: If there's anything in the world I like, it's gitten saved from being shot.

Melody Jones: [as he is swapping clothes with Monte] Not even if we swapped every stich,

[Handing him the silver dollar he always keeps]

Melody Jones: 'cause there still wouldn't be no scar on my face.

Monte Jarrad: [Cold-bloodedly] But who'd know that... if there wasn't no face left?

Melody Jones: [to Cherry, lying down on the bed] Watcha got in this mattress... skulls?

Melody Jones: Like I told your friend, never turn your back on anything... especially a girl!