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| Louise Pendrake: Well, Jack. Now you know. This is a house of ill fame. And I'm a fallen flower. This life is not only wicked and sinful. It isn't even any fun. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Jack Crabb: Do you hate them? Do you hate the White man now?
Old Lodge Skins: Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water, earth, stone. And also the things from them... like that hair. The man from whom this hair came, he's bald on the other side, because I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man, they believe EVERYTHING is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people! Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man will rub them out. That is the difference. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Jack Crabb: Mr. Merriwhether, you don't know when you're licked!
Allardyce T. Merriwhether: Licked? I'm not licked. I'm tarred and feathered, that's all. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| General Custer: You came up here to kill me, didn't you? And you lost your nerve. Well, I was correct. In a sense, you are a renegade, but you are no Cheyenne Brave. Do I hang you? I think not. Get out of here. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Jack Crabb: You're not going to hang me.
General Custer: Your miserable life is not worth the reversal of a Custer decision. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Old Lodge Skins: Don't worry my son, you will be back with us, I dreamed it last night. I saw you with your wives
Jack Crabb: Wives, Grandfather?
Old Lodge Skins: Yes, there were three... or four, it was hard to tell. It was very dark in your teepee and they were under buffalo rugs as you crawled among them. Anyway, it was a great copulation. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Jack Crabb: Grandfather, I have a white wife.
Old Lodge Skins: You do? That's interesting. Does she cook and does she work hard.
Jack Crabb: Yes, Grandfather.
Old Lodge Skins: That surprises me. Does she show pleasant enthusiasm when you mount her?
Jack Crabb: Well sure, Grandfather.
Old Lodge Skins: That surprises me even more. I tried one of them once, but she didn't show any enthusiasm at all. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Jack Crabb: General, you go down there.
General Custer: You're advising me to go into the Coulee?
Jack Crabb: Yes sir.
General Custer: There are no Indians there, I suppose.
Jack Crabb: I didn't say that. There are thousands of Indians down there. And when they get done with you, there won't be nothing left but a greasy stain. This ain't the Washite River, General, and them ain't helpless women and children waiting for you. They're Cheyenne brave, and Sioux. You go down there, General, if you've got the nerve.
General Custer: Still trying to outsmart me, aren't you, mule-skinner. You want me to think that you don't want me to go down there, but the subtle truth is you really *don't* want me to go down there! (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Old Lodge Skins: Come out and fight! It is a good day to die! Thank You for making me a Human Being! Thank You for helpin' me to become a warrior! Thank You for my victories, and for my defeats! Thank You for my vision, and the blindness in which I saw further! You make all things and direct them in their ways, O Grandfather. And now You have decided the Human Beings will soon walk a road that leads nowhere. I am gonna die now, unless death wants to fight. And I ask You for the last time to grant me my old power to make things happen.
[Lies down to die. After a moment, props himself up on his elbows to add:]
Old Lodge Skins: Take care of my son here. See that he doesn't go crazy. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Old Lodge Skins: There is an endless supply of white men. There has always been a limited number of human beings. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
[Grandfather, who has laid himself down to die, wakes up]
Grandfather: Am I still in this world?
Jack Crabb: Yes, Grandfather.
Grandfather: [groans] I was afraid of that. Well, sometimes the magic works. Sometimes, it doesn't. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Jack Crabb: [voiceover] He believed that he needed one more victory over the Indians to be nominated for President of the United States. That is a true historical fact. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| General Custer: A Custer decision impetuous? GRANT called me impetuous, too, the drunkard, sitting there in the White House, calling ME impetuous! (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Jack Crabb: Might I ask who I are addressin'?
Wild Bill Hickock: Name's Hickok. Wild Bill Hickok.
Jack Crabb: Oh, uh, pleased to make your acquaintance, Mr. Hickok. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Old Lodge Skins: This boy is no longer a boy. He's a brave. He is little in body, but his heart is big. His name shall be "Little Big Man." (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
[Sunshine has brought her widow sisters]
Sunshine: It is very sad. They have no husbands and they cry.
Jack Crabb: Well, that's too bad; I'm sorry.
Sunshine: Digging Bear had a baby and lost it. And so did Corn Woman. But Little Elk had no baby at all.
Jack Crabb: All right, what do you want me to do about it?
Sunshine: I knew you'd understand. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Younger Bear: You and I are even at last. I paid you the life I owe you. And the next time we meet, I can kill you without becoming an evil person. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Jack Crabb: Sure, I'm white. Didn't you hear me say, "God bless George Washington. God bless my mother."? I mean, now what kind of Indian would say a fool thing like that? (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Jack Crabb: She was calling him a devil and moaning for help, but I didn't get no idea she wanted to be rescued. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Caroline Crabb: Sold your gunfighter outfit? Turning in your gun?
Jack Crabb: Well, sorry, Caroline.
Caroline Crabb: There's ain't nothin' in this world more useless than a gunfighter who can't shoot *people*! (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Old Lodge Skins: Let's go back to the teepee and eat, my son. My new snake wife cooks dog very well.
Jack Crabb: All right, Grandfather.
Old Lodge Skins: She also has a very soft skin. The only trouble with snake women is they copulate with horses, which makes them strange to me. She say's she doesn't. That's why I call her "Doesn't Like Horses". But, of course, she's lying. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Jack Crabb: Uh, Mr. Hickock, how many men have you... gunned down?
Wild Bill Hickock: I don't rightly remember. You?
Jack Crabb: Oh, about two dozen.
Wild Bill Hickock: Is that a fact?
Jack Crabb: [voiceover] No, it wasn't a fact. In my gunfighter period, I was a terrible liar.
Wild Bill Hickock: I wouldn't have put your total that high. No offense, Hoss, but you ain't got the look of murder about you. Not like that fella over there
[nods toward a drunk sleeping at a nearby table]
Wild Bill Hickock: .
Jack Crabb: [Laughing] Him! Why, he's just a common drunk. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
[Hickock has pulled a gun on a man for yelling]
Jack Crabb: Listen; what are you so nervous about?
Wild Bill Hickock: [pouring a drink] Gettin' shot. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
[Hickock just shot the "drunk" who tried to kill him]
Bartender: Did you know the man, Bill?
Wild Bill Hickock: Never laid eyes on the gentleman before.
Jack Crabb: Mr, Hickcock; that man's really dead!
Wild Bill Hickock: Yep; got him through the heart and lungs both. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Little Horse: [a obviously homosexual Indian approaches Jack] Little Big Man! You have returned. Don't you remember me? That hurts me deep in my heart.
Jack Crabb: [voiceover] It was Little Horse; the boy who wouldn't go on the raid against the Pawnee. He had become a "heemanee" for which there ain't no English word. And he was a good one, too. The Human Beings thought a lot of him. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Little Horse: You look tired Little Big Man. Would you like to come in my teepee and rest on soft furs? Come and live with me and I'll be your wife! (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Jack Crabb: I know of a white man who is as brave as any Human Being. His name is General Custer.
Old Lodge Skins: I would like to meet this man and smoke with him. What does his name mean?
Jack Crabb: It means 'Long Hair'.
Old Lodge Skins: Good name. How did he win it?
Jack Crabb: He won it in the war of the whites to free the black men.
Old Lodge Skins: Yes, the "black" white man; I have heard of them. It is said that a "black" white man once became a Human Being. They are a very strange creatures. Not as ugly as the white man true; but they are just as crazy! (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Old Lodge Skins: You make all things and direct them in their ways, oh Grandfather, and now, you have decided the Human Beings will soon walk a road that leads nowhere. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
General Custer: A scout has a certain look... Kit Carson, for example. You look like... a muleskinner!
Jack Crabb: Uh, General I don't know anything about mules...
General Custer: Lieutenant, it's amazing how I can guess the profession of a man just by looking at him! Notice the bandy legs, the powerful arms. This man has spent years with mules. Isn't that right?
Jack Crabb: Uh, yes sir!
General Custer: Hire the muleskinner! (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Old Lodge Skins: I saw you in a dream my son. You were drinking from a spring that came from the nose of an animal I didn't recognize. It had two great horns, one on each side of its nose, and the water that came from its nose was full of air! (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Jack Crabb: [Narration; upon finding his white wife among the Cheyenne] It was Olga! She had never learned much English, but she sure as hell had learned Cheyenne! (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Younger Bear: Every time I believe you are dead and the buzzards have eaten your body, you come back!
Jack Crabb: Yes, and I always will until you pay me the life you owe me. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Sunshine: [Seeing Jack crawling out from under her sister's buffalo robe] The others too?
Jack Crabb: Uh, huh.
Sunshine: I knew you were a good man. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Jack Crabb: After my religion period, I took up with a swindler: Allardyce Merriwhether. After Mrs. Pendrake his honesty was downright refreshing. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Jack Crabb: [voiceover] I was an honored guest, so they gave me a special treat: boiled dog. Now I will admit, dog is greasy, but you'd be surprised how downright delicate the flavor is - especially when you're starving. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
| Jack Crabb: I was determined to stay out of them buffalo robes. Three young and healthy women with no man for who knows how long. The very idea kinda shrunk me like a spider on a hot stove. (Movie: Little Big Man [1970]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Will you tell me a pink story?
Becky Porter: If you ain't the beatinest child I ever seen. When you want to hear a blue story, everything in it has got to be blue. And when you want to hear a green story, everything in it has got to be green.
[laughs]
Becky Porter: Now, I could tell you a *black* story 'bout my first husband... (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: What under the sun's goin' on here? What are you doing?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Hello, Grandfather! We were just baptizing Henry Clay.
Col. Lloyd: Baptizing Henry Clay?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Yes, and he must be *awful* bad, because it took two dunks to save him! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Grandfather, do you know any blue stories?
Col. Lloyd: [surprised] Blue stories? Well, I do... a few.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Tell me one.
Col. Lloyd: I don't know any that I can tell *you.* (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: Confound you, Walker! Watch what you're doing!
Walker: I'm sorry, sir.
Col. Lloyd: If you'd broken that, I'd have broken your head.
Walker: Yes, sir.
Dr. Scott: Someday your temper is going to split you wide open.
Col. Lloyd: Well, I won't call for you to sew me up! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: What are you doing here?
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Wait, Jack, let me tell him! Father, this is the man I'm going to marry. I knew you would never give your consent, so that's why we were going to elope.
Jack Sherman: I wanted to come to you, sir, and ask your permission, but?
Col. Lloyd: Silence! Why did you assume that I would object to an honorable marriage?
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I know how you feel about the South.
Col. Lloyd: I hate all Yankees.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: That's why we didn't come and tell you.
Col. Lloyd: Then you knew you were doing wrong! How can you marry a man who represents everything that a true Southerner should hate? A man who fought against your father, your brother, and all your kinfolk. For all you know, he may have fired the shot that killed your brother!
Jack Sherman: I was in the war, sir, and though I fought on the other side, the South has always had my admiration and respect. My mother was a Virginian. But might I remind you, sir, that the war has been over for some time.
Col. Lloyd: The war will never be over for me and mine, sir. I want to kill you. I don't know but what I will. Elizabeth, go to your room.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: No.
Col. Lloyd: Go to your room, I tell you!
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I'm going with Jack!
Col. Lloyd: Elizabeth, when that door closes, it will never open for you again! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: Oh, stop chattering, Walker!
Walker: Yes, sir.
Col. Lloyd: I don't want to hear all this gossip.
Walker: No, sir. I was going to tell you about the cottage, sir, but I suspect you're not interested.
Col. Lloyd: The cottage?
Walker: Yes, sir. Someone's moved into it.
Col. Lloyd: Walker! Confound you, why don't you let me know when things are going on around here? Who's moving into the cottage?
Walker: I don't know, sir.
Col. Lloyd: It's been empty a long time now, ever since - well, maybe I'd better call on our new neighbors and see what kind of folks they are.
Walker: Yes, sir. Having some new neighbors won't make it so lonely 'round here.
Col. Lloyd: Who says it's lonely 'round here?
Walker: Not me, no sir!
Col. Lloyd: Anyway, I like it lonely! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Mother, who was that?
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Your grandfather.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Why didn't he come in?
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: He didn't want to.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Did he make you cry? (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Mom Beck, why doesn't my grandfather want to come in and see my mother?
Becky Porter: Well, he mighty mad at she, and I guess she mad at he.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Why?
Becky Porter: Your grandfather get mad when your mama marry your daddy.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: But he's her papa, isn't he?
Becky Porter: Sure 'nough.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Aren't papas supposed to love their little girls?
Becky Porter: Yes, honey, they should.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: It seems might funny to me.
Becky Porter: It's 'cause all the Lloyds are stubborn. The old colonel is, your mama is, and you is.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I'm not stubborn! Don't you call me that!
Becky Porter: Don't you stomp your foot at me. That don't change it, that just proves it. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Don't you dare poke with that old stick!
Col. Lloyd: You'd better learn some respect for your elders.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I won't respect anyone who pokes me with a stick!
Col. Lloyd: For a little girl, you've got a bad temper!
Miss Lloyd Sherman: That's your fault.
Col. Lloyd: What? Who are you?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: They call me the little colonel.
Col. Lloyd: What under the sun do they call you that for?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Because I'm so much like you.
Col. Lloyd: What? How are you like me?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Because I stop my foot when I get mad, and I get all red in the face! I holler back at people, too!
Col. Lloyd: Look at you! You're a pretty sight. What are you running around the country for, like poor white trash? I don't know who your mother is, but whoever she is, she ought to teach you some manners.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: [throwing mud on him] Don't you dare say anything bad about my mother!
Col. Lloyd: Whose child is that?
Becky Porter: How can I tell you, sir, when you don't want nobody to even say her name?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I'm Lloyd Sherman, that's who I am!
Col. Lloyd: Lloyd Sherman!
Becky Porter: Come on now, child, your mama's mighty worried about you.
Col. Lloyd: I - I didn't know.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Oh, that's all right. Goodbye, Grandfather. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Now that I'm a colonel, can't I play with the boys anymore?
Col. Gray: Why, of course you can.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Well, you don't! Do colonels have to go to bed at 7:00?
Col. Gray: Why, no, sometimes colonels stay up as late as 8:00.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I wish you'd tell my mother that.
Col. Gray: I will. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Jack Sherman: I want to thank you, Bob, for everything.
Col. Gray: It's been a great pleasure having you and your family with us, even for so short a time. Quite different from Philadelphia, isn't it?
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Yes, indeed. We lived there for six years, but I never got used to the dreadful noise of the horse cars.
Col. Gray: Jack told me that you'd sold your house there.
Jack Sherman: We sold everything, lock, stock, and barrel. Took Greely's advice to go west, and here we are to find our fortune. I'm depending on your help for that.
Swazey: Oh, there's plenty there for the finding, if we're lucky.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I do wish we didn't have to go back home to Lloydsboro.
Jack Sherman: Now, dear, we've settled all that.
Col. Gray: This wild country is no place for women and children, and where Jack's going it's even rougher. Besides, Jack told me you have a lovely home waiting for you.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh, that sounds too grand. It's really just a cottage my mother left me. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Mom Beck, I'm expecting Aunt Sally Tyler for lunch. Will you have enough?
Becky Porter: I don't know if I can stretch one small chicken, but as long as the water's runnin', we'll have soup enough.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Well, do the best you can.
[Lloyd picks up a cookie]
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Honey, don't eat that now. You'll spoil your lunch.
[Lloyd puts down the cookie]
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Is Aunt Sally Tyler my aunt too?
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: She's your great-aunt, dear.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: My great-aunt? Oh, I remember, the big fat one.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: You must be very polite to her, dear. She's coming all the way from Louisville to see us.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: All right, Mother, I will. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: And I only had one shot left. And I aimed my gun, and bang! I killed those three Indians.
May Lily: Why, Miss Lloyd, did you really do that?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Of course not, that's just a story. And you don't have to call me Miss Lloyd. You can call me Colonel.
May Lily: Is you a colonel too?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Yes, I am, a real colonel!
May Lily: You can't be no colonel.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Why not?
May Lily: 'Cause you ain't got no whiskers.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I don't need to have whiskers. I've got temper. That's all you need to be a colonel.
May Lily: I guess that's right, 'cause all the colonels I ever seen had tempers. I hope you're not a colonel like him over there. If you was, I'd be afeared to play with you! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
May Lily: Why, Miss Lloyd, them's the colonel's flowers!
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Well, we're not afraid of the colonel.
May Lily: Who ain't afraid? Maybe you ain't, but I is.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Now listen, May Lily. You too, Henry Clay. I'm the colonel and you're my men, and in the army you have to obey orders. Forward march!
May Lily: I don't think I'm gonna like bein' the army.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Aw! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
| Miss Lloyd Sherman: Come on, May Lily, let's make mud pies! We can get a lot of nice round pebbles, and they can be raisins. We'll sprinkle dust over the top, and that can be sugar. We'll just make the finest mud pies you ever saw! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Aunt Sally Tyler: There are some things to be considered besides your pride, Elizabeth. There's the child herself, you know. You ought to think of her interests.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I don't care. I don't want anything from him!
Aunt Sally Tyler: I know, dear, but just the same I say you ought to think of Lloyd. If I were you, I'd let her go over there as often as she pleases. And who knows? It might end in your all making up some day.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Never! Not after the terrible things he said about Jack! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Becky Porter: Looky here, honey, if you don't take your nap like a good little gir, Mom Beck won't bring you along to the baptizin'.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Will there be singing?
Becky Porter: Sure will, honey, and wailin' too.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Then I'll take my nap.
Becky Porter: That's a good little girl. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Walker: Looky here, how is Miss Elizabeth?
Becky Porter: Oh, her health is all right, but I think she worries 'bout Mister Jack. He better come home pretty soon.
Walker: What you mean, you ain't got no m -
[Becky shushes him and points to Lloyd]
Walker: Uh... M-O-N-I-E?
Becky Porter: Not only that, we's 'most outta F-U-D-E.
Walker: Well, looky here, couldn't the K-U-N-E-L give a little L-O-N-E?
Becky Porter: You know Miss Elizabeth wouldn't take nothin' from him. Why, before she'd do that, she'd go to the, uh... the... P-O-H-O-S.
[Walker stops walking and stares at her]
Walker: P-O-H-O-S?
Becky Porter: Yeah, sure, ain't you got no education? The poorhouse!
Walker: Oh, no.
Becky Porter: Yes, indeed. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
May Lily: If the old colonel ever finds out where we got these sheets, he'll baptize us good.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Didn't I tell you that my men don't have to be afraid of anything? Now, Henry Clay, are you ready? Have you got the right thoughts?
Henry Clay: Uh-huh.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Do you believe it'll wash your sins away?
Henry Clay: Uh-huh.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: All right, come one. One, two, three.
[Lloyd and May Lily dunk Henry Clay in the water]
May Lily: Hallelujah!
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Are you saved?
[Henry Clay shakes his head]
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Well, we'll have to do it again. One, two, three.
[Lloyd and May Lily dunk Henry Clay in the water again]
May Lily: Hallelujah!
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Are you saved?
Henry Clay: Uh-huh. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Grandfather?
Col. Lloyd: Well, what is it?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I'm sorry I threw mud on you. And I'm sorry I lost my temper. And I'm sorry I took the sheets off your bed.
Col. Lloyd: What? You took my sheets?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I had to have them. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: Maria, I've got a young lady here whose clothes need drying.
Maria: Yes, sir?
Col. Lloyd: Well, take her!
Maria: But Colonel sir, what can I put her in while her clothes is a-dryin'? I ain't got nothin' for a little girl to wear.
Col. Lloyd: Uh, Walker, go up into the attic, and you'll find a small trunk. There may be some clothes in there that will fit Miss Lloyd.
Walker: A small trunk in the attic, sir?
Col. Lloyd: Yes, you numbskull! Don't you understand English? Attend to it right away.
[the Colonel leaves]
Walker: Do you know whose trunk that is and whose clothes they is?
Maria: Course I do. You go on now and fetch them things. We don't want no menfolk 'round here.
Walker: With that face, you don't have to worry! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Maria: My, my, you is the spittin' image of your mother. You got the same goldy hair and pinky cheeks.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Did my mother have a temper, too?
Maria: Yes, indeed she did. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Play a game with me.
Col. Lloyd: What kind of a game?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Well, it couldn't be tag or prisoner's base, could it?
Col. Lloyd: No, no, it couldn't.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: It better be a sit-down game, then. Do you know how to play jacks?
Col. Lloyd: Jacks? Do you play that with cards?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: No, with a ball.
Col. Lloyd: Oh, then I don't know how to play it, no. Do you play cribbage?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Cribbage? Is that like hopscotch? (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: For your years and weight, you're probably the stubbornest person in this county.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: You weigh a lot more than I do! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: You're going to come see me again, aren't you, even though your mother tells you not to?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Yes, Grandfather, and the next time we play, we won't quarrel. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Dr. Scott: He's still running a fever. He's going to need very careful nursing and plenty of it.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Mom Beck and I will take care of him.
Dr. Scott: Yes, but if I were you, I would send Lloyd away until he was well again.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: But where can I send her?
Dr. Scott: There's only one place, Elizabeth, and you mustn't be stubborn about it. He's all alone in that big house, you know, and he'd see that she was properly cared for.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Lloyd has never been away from me for one night in her whole life.
Dr. Scott: I know, but this house is no place for her now. Let me speak with him and I'll arrange it. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Mother, do I have to stay here very long?
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: No, dear, just until Papa Jack is well.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: You know, I'm gonna be awful lonesome without you.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: You're going to be brave, aren't you? You promised you would.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Yes, but when I promised, I didn't know I'd feel this way. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Aunt Sally Tyler: Can that be Lloyd that Becky is carrying?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Hello, Mother! How do you do, Aunt Sally Tyler?
Aunt Sally Tyler: How do you do, dear?
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Where have you been?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I've been to see my grandfather, and I threw mud on him.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: You threw mud on him?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Yes, because he poked me with a stick. Then I got mad and he got mad, and we hollered at each other.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh baby, how could you disgrace Mother by going over there looking like a dirty little beggar?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I didn't beg him for anything.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: You've been a very naughty girl, and you're going to be punished. Becky, take her inside. Give her a bath and put her to bed.
Becky Porter: Yes'm.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh, I'm terribly upset. I wouldn't for worlds have him think I encouraged her in going there. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Mom Beck, what's a poorhouse?
Becky Porter: That's where they send the folks who got no money.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Is it nice?
Becky Porter: No, honey. It's a turrible place. The people there wear rags, and all they get to eat is carved out of a tin pan.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Then I don't want my mother to go there.
Becky Porter: Why, honey child, your mother won't never have to go to no poorhouse. We would never let that happen, would we, Brother Walker?
Walker: I should say not.
Becky Porter: Now don't you worry your pretty little head about anything like that, child. The Lord always provides.
Walker: Amen! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Mom Beck, why do they dunk them in the water that way?
Becky Porter: That's to save their souls and wash their sins away.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Would it wash my sins away?
Becky Porter: Why honey, you ain't got no sins. You a little angel.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Well, would it wash my sins away if I had any?
Becky Porter: Sure would, child, if you believed in it.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Were you ever dunked, Mom Beck?
Walker: A little river like that wouldn't do her no good, child. She need the Mississippi! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: That was your grandmother, dear. And that was her song you just sang.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I know. My mother teached it to me. Teached isn't right, is it?
Col. Lloyd: No, taught is correct.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Taught, then. What was my grandmother's name?
Col. Lloyd: Her name was Amanthis.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Amanthis? That's a beautiful name.
Col. Lloyd: She was a beautiful person. With a beautiful soul.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I wish she was here now.
Col. Lloyd: You do, dear? Why?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I know if she was here, she'd go right to my mother and kiss away all of her sorry feelings. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: Let's get back to this game. These men are yours. Now, I'll be the Confederacy, and you'll be the Union.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Oh, goody, goody, goody! I got the winning side already.
Col. Lloyd: Oh, no, you haven't! I'll show you!
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Maybe you'd like to be the North, and I'll be the South? (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: Child, you're a true Lloyd. You've got all the fire and courage our family's always had. And you've got the same infernal temper that's been our curse. It's going to cause you a lot of unhappiness unless you learn to control it. Will you try?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I will if you will.
Col. Lloyd: Well, you've got a lot more time to learn than I have. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Tell me, dear, what happened?
Jack Sherman: Swazey and Hull were thieves. The land they sold me was worthless. We're ruined. We haven't a penny.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Jack, is all our money gone?
Jack Sherman: All of it. When I found out I got swindled, I almost went crazy. And on top of it, I got this fever.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Hush, dear. Don't think of that now. You must be quiet.
Jack Sherman: Poor Elizabeth. You made a sorry bargain when you gave up your beautiful home to marry me.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: I'd do it again. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: What are you wearing those old clothes for? Why don't they dress you up when you go visiting? It isn't showing proper respect to send you off in the oldest things you have.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: They're the best I've got, and I like them. And anyway, I don't need any new ones because pretty soon we'll be going away.
Col. Lloyd: Going away? Where?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: To the poorhouse! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Walker: Miss Lloyd, where you going?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I'm going home to Mother. She loves me, even if my clothes are old and ugly.
Walker: Why, Miss Lloyd, the colonel loves you, too. It's just because his rheumatism's botherin' him that he's so cranky. My, my, you should hear the things he says. They'd make your hair curl.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Would they really make my hair curl?
Walker: Sure would, Miss Lloyd. Look what they did to mine. Come on, now.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: I don't want to go up there.
Walker: Why, everybody's got to go upstairs, Miss Lloyd, if they wants to go to bed.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: But I don't want to.
Walker: Look here, will you go if I shows you a new way how to go upstairs?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: How can there be a new way to go upstairs? (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Jeremy Higgins, Union-Pacific representative: Do you have the deed here?
Jack Sherman: It's at my bank.
Jeremy Higgins, Union-Pacific representative: Well, you bring it here, and I'll have a check for you. That's the way the Union-Pacific does business!
Jack Sherman: This is more cure than all the medicine. I'm well again!
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh no, you're not! You just stay right here.
Jack Sherman: The best part of it is, we won't have to ask your father for anything, and he can't laugh at me for being a failure! Darling, you go to the bank. I'll give you a note to take to Mr. Jennings. You bring back all the papers I left there. The deed is with them.
Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman: Oh, it's almost too good to be true! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Swazey: You oughta be glad to see us. We're old friends of yours.
Hull: We've come a long way to see your daddy. Where is he?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: He's at home, and he's sick.
Swazey: Gee, that's too bad.
Hull: Where's home?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Down at the end of the road.
Swazey: Thanks, Colonel. You're still a colonel, I suppose? Well, goodbye.
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Oh, those are bad men! I heard Papa Jack say so. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Swazey: Why, Jack, old partner! What's happened to you?
Jack Sherman: I've been very ill.
Swazey: Gee, that's too bad. Anything we can do? Maybe when you find out what we've come for, you'll feel better. When we sold you that land, we did it in good faith. We thought there was gold and plenty on it, and then we went off to California. On our way back, we stopped to see how you were faring, and we found out what had happened. Partner, we felt bad. Didn't we?
Hull: That's right.
Swazey: Now we'll prove we're honest. We made a long trip to find you to give you back your money.
Jack Sherman: You did, did you?
Swazey: Why, I couldn't sleep again if I thought you'd lost money. All we ask is that you hand over the deed to the property, and we'll pay you what you paid us, fair and square.
Jack Sherman: That's very kind and generous of you. Now be kind enough to get out of my house! You found out my land was valuable and the railroad wanted it, and I found out what kind of men you are. Now get out!
Swazey: Now partner, we came here to make an honest business deal for that deed. But if you're going to get rough about it, we'll have to get it another way. (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Grandfather, Grandfather!
Col. Lloyd: What under the sun? Why, child, what is it? What's the matter?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Oh, Grandfather, you've gotta come with me right away!
Col. Lloyd: Come where?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Home to my house. There are two bad men there, and they're saying bad things to Papa Jack!
Col. Lloyd: I wouldn't set foot in that house for anybody or anything!
Miss Lloyd Sherman: But you've got to! Papa Jack is sick, and those two men are going to hurt him!
Col. Lloyd: Why should I help a Yankee?
Miss Lloyd Sherman: Because he's my papa, and I love him! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
Col. Lloyd: Walker, I want you to go to town on Saturday and buy a lot of little girls clothes.
Walker: What shall I buy, sir?
Col. Lloyd: Well, what do you suppose? Hats, shoes, stockings, dresses, and whatever goes under the dresses. And Walker?
Walker: Yes, sir?
Col. Lloyd: I'm an old fool.
Walker: Yes, sir! (Movie: The Little Colonel [1935]) | |
| Dana: [to Angel on losing her virginity] And don't worry. It's not THAT bad. If it was, everyone wouldn't be doing it. (Movie: Little Darlings [1980]) | |
Angel: When did you lose your virginity? I just want to know.
Ms. Bright: Why? Now why do you want to know that? Curiosity? I know I must have been at least nineteen.
Angel: Nineteen?
Ms. Bright: It was nothing. Still is nothing. (Movie: Little Darlings [1980]) | |
Angel: I have to talk to you.
Ms. Bright: Uh huh, about what?
Angel: I think you better straighten your act out. What's this crap about sex being nothing?
Ms. Bright: I don't know. I don't understand. What do you mean?
Angel: You've been hanging around creeps.
Ms. Bright: Angel! That's not a very nice thing to say to your mom.
Angel: I'm gonna keep my eye on you. (Movie: Little Darlings [1980]) | |
Dana: So what happened? Come on, tell us, come on, come on, come on!
Ferris: He compared us to Romeo and Juliet. We had some chilled champagne.
Dana: An aphrodisiac! I told you about those.
Sunshine: Did, did it hurt?
Ferris: No!
Cinder: Such a child.
Penelope: Did you see him naked?
Ferris: No. It was dark.
Sunshine: Don't be disgusting.
Chubby: Then how'd he...?
Ferris: He didn't want to embarrass me so he turned off the light.
Carrots: Oh, I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die!
Dana: How cavalier! Come on, come on, come on!
Ferris: It was perfect! The darkness enveloped us.
Dana: This is better than books! I gotta tell you! This is great!
Cinder: The truth always is. (Movie: Little Darlings [1980]) | |
Ferris: You sort of want me, don't you?
Gary: Ferris, maybe I do, but that's not the point. You see, to you, sex is poetry and phrases and everything you learned in books. You know, but when you're really in love...
Ferris: I am!
Gary: Ferris, I'm not a prince. I'm a teacher. You know, in a year you're gonna look at me and you're gonna wonder how you could have even thought of loving me.
Ferris: That's not true.
Gary: Unfortunately, it is.
Ferris: What if next year I came back and I still felt the same way? I'll be old then. Do you realize that I am almost the only virgin in camp? Every girl knows this secret life except me. Look at it this way. It'd be a learning experience.
Gary: Come on.
Ferris: Where are you going?
Gary: I'm taking you back.
Ferris: Couldn't I spend the night here just for appearances? If I were twenty-one?
Gary: I think I'd fall madly in love with you. (Movie: Little Darlings [1980]) | |
Dana: I knew this one girl and I swear, she did it on a rollercoaster. Hey Ferris, where's the weirdest place you ever did it?
Ferris: None of your business.
Cinder: Why not?
[to the girls]
Cinder: She probably doesn't know anything.
Ferris: I know enough.
Cinder: Ever been to fourth base?
Ferris: I'm fifteen. No one goes to fourth base...
Cinder: I hit a home run at fourteen. Well I guess some of us are women, and some of us are little girls.
[to Angel]
Cinder: Which are you?
Angel: I think guys are a pain in the ass.
Cinder: Two little virgins. How quaint. No wonder they're always fighting. It's all that unreleased energy. Probably lezzies.
Ferris: Maybe she is, but I'm straight. (Movie: Little Darlings [1980]) | |
Angel: What's your name anyway?
Randy: Who me?
Angel: Yeah you. I know my name.
Randy: Yeah? What is it?
Angel: Angel, but don't let the name fool you.
Randy: Who's fooling who?
Angel: You're drunk.
Randy: You're cute.
Angel: Still haven't told me your name yet.
Randy: Oh yeah?
Angel: Yeah.
Randy: It's Randy. Don't let the name fool you. (Movie: Little Darlings [1980]) | |
Ferris: Can we talk?
Gary: Yeah, why not? We're lovers now, right? I thought you were a nice person. Sensitive. Just a little goddamn fraud. You owe me an explanation. Talk to me, Ferris.
Ferris: I wanted the girls to like me. I wanted to be in just once. I didn't want to be the rich kid.
Gary: So you made up some ridiculous story that we've been getting it on together?
Ferris: No, no, not exactly. I tried to tell them the truth.
Gary: You didn't try hard enough.
Ferris: Please, Mr. Callahan...
Gary: No "Mr. Callahan." We have been intimate, right?
Ferris: Sort of. I mean, I wish we could have been. I told them things that I wanted to be. It didn't feel like a lie. Sometimes I thought it might really happen. I suppose you don't think much of me now. (Movie: Little Darlings [1980]) | |
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