Timmons Quotes in China Seas (1935)

Paul: Better take care of these pearls, in case of piracy

Mrs. Timmons: Why, they're artificial. They're not worth anything.

Timmons: Twelve and a half bucks.

Paul: Well, a bargain, I say. Where did you get them Mr. Timmons?

Timmons: She picked them up.

Mrs. Timmons: I bought them myself, in Tokyo.

Paul: Well, you know, its not always easy to tell the real from - I'm sure you didn't pay too much for them.

Timmons: Bet your sweet life she didn't. That little woman gets her monies worth every time. Huh, boopsie?

Mrs. Timmons: Oh, if we only come out of this alive!

Timmons: Now, now, Boopsie, don't let a little wind blow you off your beat.

[Dunbar has found an old skeleton on the prairie]

Timmons: Somebody back east is sayin' "Why don't he write?"

Timmons: [after he has bent over and farted] Why don't you put that in your book?

John Dunbar: How come we haven't seen any buffalo?

Timmons: Can't figure the stinking buffalo. Sometimes you don't see them for days, and sometimes they're out there as thick as curls on a whore.

John Dunbar: What about Indians?

Timmons: Indians? Goddamn Indians you'd just as soon not see, unless the bastards are dead. They're nothing but thieves and beggars.

[Repeated line]

Timmons: [after they have reached an abandoned fort] There ain't nothing here, lieutenant.

Timmons: [John Dunbar tries to wake him by hitting him with a stick] Something poked me in the butt, was that you?

Paul: I've been getting complaints that you're not allowing the kitchen staff to vote today!

Timmons: They're not gonna vote. Half of them are illegal, they CAN'T vote.