Wesley Winfield Quotes in By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

Father Winfield: [about Wesley's pet turkey] For the last time, that turkey does not belong in the house!

Wesley Winfield: Well, if he's good enough to be on the table, he's good enough to walk around it.

Mr. Winfield: Wesley, you stay out of the living room. Your sister is entertaining a caller.

Wesley Winfield: Is he telling her "her eyes are like the blue stars in Heaven"?

Mr. Winfield: Now, where did you pick that up?

Wesley Winfield: Ah, I've been around.

Mr. Winfield: Well, just the same, you stay out of the living room.

Wesley Winfield: Seems to me a person wouldn't sing so loud in the morning when they knew another person's got a sick headache!

Marjorie 'Marjie' Winfield: Seems to me a person always gets a sick headache on school days.

[Wesley has stolen Marjorie's letter to Bill for his homework]

Miss Mary Stevens: Wesley Winfield, you may read your letter.

Wesley Winfield: But ma'am...

Miss Mary Stevens: [sternly] You may read your letter!

Wesley Winfield: Yes, ma'am.

Miss Mary Stevens: Have you prepared one?

Wesley Winfield: Yes, ma'am.

Miss Mary Stevens: But, uh, you're going to find out that you've forgot to bring it, aren't you?

Wesley Winfield: [takes the letter out of his schoolbook] No, ma'am, I got it.

Miss Mary Stevens: Well, we'll listen to what you've found time to prepare. For once.

[Wesley stands in front of the class and reads "his" letter aloud]

Wesley Winfield: "Dear friend, you called me beautiful, but I'm really not beautiful, and at times, I doubt if I'm even pretty. Though my hair may be beautiful and if it is true that my eyes are like the blue stars... in... Heaven..."

[the class laughs]

Miss Mary Stevens: [to Wesley] Go on.

Wesley Winfield: [to himself] Oh no...

Miss Mary Stevens: Proceed!

Wesley Winfield: "A-A tremor thrills my being when I recall... your... last words to me... that last... that last..."

Miss Mary Stevens: [impatiently] Go on.

Wesley Winfield: "That-that last... evening... in... the moonlight when you... you..."

Miss Mary Stevens: Wesley, you will go on. And you will stop that stammering!

Wesley Winfield: "You-you kissed my shoulder and-and said that you would like to love me forever and ever... and ever... and ever..."

Miss Mary Stevens: Wesley...

Wesley Winfield: "A-And that if you believed in marriage you would... want me to... Yours respectfully, Wesley Winfield."

[Wesley quickly sits back down, embarrassed, while the class laughs at him]

Wesley Winfield: Marjorie's old petticoat! You've got me in Marjorie's old petticoat!

Wesley Winfield: Gee, it must be tough being a girl.

[last lines]

Wesley Winfield: Here's your hat. Keep your head up and breathe through your nose.