Polly Byrnes Quotes in After the Thin Man (1936)

Nick Charles: You see, when it comes to words like that, an illiterate person...

Polly Byrnes: Whaddaya mean "illiterate"? My father and mother were married right here in the city hall!

Nick Charles: [Leans toward Nora] Having a good time, Mrs. Charles?

Nora Charles: It couldn't be better.

Polly Byrnes: Say, is that Mrs. Landis?

Nick Charles: Yep, want to meet her?

Polly Byrnes: No thanks, I've had enough of this family.

Polly Byrnes: [singing] Blow that horn, Blow that horn, The old year's dead and the new year's born, We got to blow that horn. Blow it high, Blow it down below, Got to try your hand that hi-di-hi, we got to blow that horn. We're gonna be a little bit daring...

Polly Byrnes: Now don't get so fresh! Take your hands off me!

San Francisco Policeman: All right, sister, I just wanted to see if you had a gun.

Polly Byrnes: That's a new name for it! Just wait till you boys ask me to do another dance for you!

Nick Charles: You're Dancer's girl, aren't you?

Polly Byrnes: I work for him.

Lieutenant Abrams, San Francisco Homicide Squad: That's not what he asked you.

Polly Byrnes: Well, we got a understanding.

Polly Byrnes: You promised you'd keep that a secret! I'll never talk to a cop again!

Nick Charles: Polly, Phil had a key to your apartment, hadn't he?

Polly Byrnes: Yeah.

Nick Charles: And so had Dancer?

Polly Byrnes: Yeah!

Nick Charles: What about Lum?

Polly Byrnes: No, of course not!

Nick Charles: With these earphones, Anderson could hear everything that went on down in your place.

Polly Byrnes: Everything?

Nick Charles: Everything.

Polly Byrnes: Holy Smoke!

Polly Byrnes: Pedro? Killed?

Lieutenant Abrams, San Francisco Homicide Squad: Yeah, don't you read the papers?

Polly Byrnes: I was in the jug!

Lieutenant Abrams, San Francisco Homicide Squad: What do you know about him.

Polly Byrnes: Nothin'. I only saw him a couple of times when I went to pay my rent.