Roger Hobbs Quotes in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)

Roger Hobbs: There ought to be an un-Edison, an un-Thomas Alva Edison who un-invents things, and the first thing they ought to un-invent is that television.

Peggy Hobbs: Didn't you get his last name?

Roger Hobbs: No, I just called hey Joe, it's from my experience that there's usually one Joe in a group of fellows.

Peggy Hobbs: That's a fine way to get a date for your daughter, paying him $5.

Mr. Martin Turner: You haven't done much walking have you Hobbs?

Roger Hobbs: Only since I was about two years old!

Roger Hobbs: Don't you think he had a rather intelligent face? It looked to me like the inside of a small canteloupe.

Mr. Martin Turner: Who took these?

Roger Hobbs: Peggy. She does all the photography around here.

Mr. Martin Turner: Wha'd she use?

Roger Hobbs: A camera.

Mr. Martin Turner: Asterbex?

Roger Hobbs: Probably.

Roger Hobbs: I'd be more religious if something wouldn't happen to that television set. Just praying that lightning would strike it, not the entire industry, just our set.

Roger Hobbs: I've never sworn at a cook in my life.

Peggy Hobbs: Well she said that you did when you came downstairs this morning.

Roger Hobbs: This morning? When I came down... I never even spoke to her. I asked the kids how they'd like a little sun on the beach and they... an-an-an...

[They look at each other, realizing the misunderstanding]

Peter Carver: I don't like you!

Roger Hobbs: You little creep.

Roger Hobbs: [about Katey's dancing partners] First an Albino and now a pygmy!