Nosey Quotes in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Nosey: [First lines]

[On the phone]

Nosey: Senator Samuel Foley. Dead. Yeah. Yeah. Died a minute ago. Here at St. Vincent. At the bedside was state political sidekick, Senator Joseph Paine. Yeah.

Nosey: I'll make it right with you.

Clarissa Saunders: What do you mean right?

Nosey: What do I mean? I tell you what I'll do. World Series. A pass. A pass! In a month it will be worth fifteen bucks.

Clarissa Saunders: Well!

[Smiles]

Nosey: My bike! Bring it back. My bike!

Man in the Street 1: Stop, thief! Stop, thief!

Man in the Street 2: Stop, thief!

Man in the Street 1: Stop, thief! Stop, thief!

Bobby: [Blows his whistle]

Nosey: No, no no. It's all right. He's - he's a not a theif. He's a friend of mine.

Bobby: You start yelling "stop, thief" at innocent people...

Nosey: I never did.

Bobby: ...and you'll find yourself in hot water. Now, be off with you. And pull your socks up.

Gulley Jimson: Of course you want to be an artist. Everybody does, once. But they get over it, like measles and chicken pox.

Nosey: But there have to be artists!

Gulley Jimson: And lunatics too! But why go and live in an asylum before you're sent for?