Tom Jeffers Quotes in The Palm Beach Story (1942)

Tom Jeffers: So this fellow gave you the look?

Gerry Jeffers: At his age it was more of a blink.

Tom Jeffers: Seven hundred dollars! And sex didn't even enter into it, I suppose?

Gerry Jeffers: Sex always has something to do with it, dear.

Gerry Jeffers: Isn't it wonderful?

Tom Jeffers: Sensational. But you haven't quite answered my question yet.

Gerry Jeffers: What question, dear?

Tom Jeffers: Why this alleged old man gave you - how much is it?

Gerry Jeffers: Seven hundred dollars.

Tom Jeffers: Seven hundred dollars. Why?

Gerry Jeffers: No reason.

Tom Jeffers: Oh, is that so? He just - seven hundred dollars? Just like that?

Gerry Jeffers: Just like that.

Tom Jeffers: I mean, sex didn't even enter into it.

Tom Jeffers: Oh, but of course it did, darling. I don't think he'd have given it to me if I had hair like excelsior and little short legs like an alligator. Sex always has something to do with it, dear.

Tom Jeffers: I see.

Gerry Jeffers: From the time you're about so big and wondering why your girlfriends' fathers are getting so arch all of a sudden. Nothing wrong - just an overture to the opera that's coming.

Gerry Jeffers: I might marry again and I might not. Maybe I'll become an adventuress.

Tom Jeffers: I can just see you on a 26 foot boat.

Gerry Jeffers: You're thinking of an adventurer, an adventuress never travels on anything less than a 300 foot long yacht with an 80 man crew.

Tom Jeffers: Don't you ever talk about anything but Topic A?

Princess Centimillia: Is there anything else?

Tom Jeffers: Funny having to sleep with a sitting-room between us.

Gerry Jeffers: And the doors locked.

Tom Jeffers: You don't have to worry about that.

Tom Jeffers: Where'd you get that dress?

Gerry Jeffers: Why, that's what I've been telling you about!

Tom Jeffers: What's that on your wrist?

Gerry Jeffers: It's just what you think it is, dear.

[He looks at the bracelet on her wrist]

Tom Jeffers: What kind of stones are those?

Gerry Jeffers: Just what they look like.

Tom Jeffers: Do you know what it feels like to be strangled by bare hands?

Tom Jeffers: Where'd you meet this Weenie King?

Gerry Jeffers: You'll die laughing!

Tom Jeffers: All right, convulse me.

Tom Jeffers: Why is your breath coming faster?

Gerry Jeffers: Because you're squeezing me!

Tom Jeffers: That's my wife, you dumb cluck!

Tom Jeffers: [talking about his new name, "McGlew"] I guess I'll have to stick with it.

Tom Jeffers: What's that you've got on your wrist?

Tom Jeffers, Gerry Jeffers: Just what you think it is, dear.

Tom Jeffers: What kind of stones are those?

Tom Jeffers, Gerry Jeffers: Just what they look like.

Tom Jeffers: Do you know what it feels like to be strangled with bare hands?

Tom Jeffers: Was she alone?

Train Porter: Well, you might practically say she's alone. The gentleman who got off with her gave me ten cents from New York to Jacksonville... she's alone, but she don't know it.