Tommy Tyler Quotes in The Truth About Spring (1964)

Tommy Tyler: If you did what you were supposed to, I wouldn't have to keep telling you, now would I?

Spring Tyler: Sure you would... just to keep in practice.

Spring Tyler: Once you get a hold on something you never let go. It's enough to drive a body wild.

Tommy Tyler: Well it wouldn't be any long drive for the likes of you.

Tommy Tyler: I'm Tommy Tyler. This *mouth* here is my daughter Spring.

William Ashton: Where do you usually sail, Mr Tyler?

Tommy Tyler: Close to the wind.

Spring Tyler: Too close, if you ask me.

Tommy Tyler: Nobody asked you.

Tommy Tyler: You'd think with my brains and her mouth we'd be better off than we are.

Tommy Tyler: Your man here's been good enough to supply me with a few odds and ends for the fish I sent over this morning.

Skelton: The price of fish seems to have gone up.

Tommy Tyler: I ain't been much of a father to you have I? The day you were born I said to myself, here's one for freedom. Here's one they won't get. The night you were launched I reckon I was the happiest guy alive. I couldn't stop wondering what the finest thing I could do for you was. And then I knew... or I thought I knew. Well that 'fine thing' is the life you have now. Only now I'm beginning to wonder if it was the right thing after all. Fathers don't usually figure on their little girls growing up.

Tommy Tyler: Buried me at sea, did you?

Spring Tyler: You don't have to look like that, it was a decent funeral.

Sellers: Thought you was dead.

Tommy Tyler: Didn't like the climate where they sent me so I came back.

[after Ashton is knocked almost unconscious by Sellers]

Tommy Tyler: You just lost your first case, son.

[Prayer before lunch]

Tommy Tyler: As we fare, may others fare. Amen.

Spring Tyler: I ain't much thought about it.

Tommy Tyler: *Haven't*, not *ain't*.

Spring Tyler: It means the same thing.

Tommy Tyler: A shoe means the same thing as a boot, but a boot's what you're gonna get in a minute.

Tommy Tyler: I told you he'd be here. If he hadn't been, I'd of lost all faith in crooks.

Tommy Tyler: Think you can get along with Ashton without me for a while?

Spring Tyler: I'll work at it.

Tommy Tyler: I got a safe deposit box in Tampa with four thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twenty-two cents. Now if it develops today I ain't as smart as I think I am, see that she gets into some girls' school. A strict one.

Tommy Tyler: My mother raised me to believe the man with the gun is the man who does the talking.

Cleary: I admire a man who remembers his mother.

Tommy Tyler: I ain't gonna ask you why you weren't here to get supper last night. And I ain't gonna ask you why you weren't here to get breakfast this morning. I ain't even gonna ask you why you left the Sarah all alone without a soul on board. And I got other things in mind I ain't gonna ask you about.

Tommy Tyler: I want to talk to Ashton.

Spring Tyler: Are you going to shoot him?

Tommy Tyler: Should I?

Spring Tyler: He didn't do anything but keep me warm.

Tommy Tyler: That's what God made fire for.

William Ashton: I don't know what you're thinking, but I can assure you...

Tommy Tyler: You don't have to assure me of nothing. I know Springer.

Tommy Tyler: You've become pretty fond of Ashton, haven't you?

Spring Tyler: [nods]

Tommy Tyler: Do you love him?

Spring Tyler: [nods]

Tommy Tyler: If he asks you to go with him and marry him... would you?

Spring Tyler: You think he will, Tommy?

Tommy Tyler: Yep. Yep, I think he will.

Spring Tyler: You wouldn't hate me then if I left you and married Ashton?

Tommy Tyler: I wouldn't take it kindly if you deprived me of grandchildren!

Tommy Tyler: You brush your teeth, you hear me? And take a bath once in a while. No Philadelphia lawyer wants his wife smelling like a wharf rat.