Mrs. Sweeney: I'm a widow, you know.
J. B. Harcourt: Is that so? Your husband is a very lucky man.


--Adolphe Menjou (as ) in Thanks for Everything

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Can you write a letter to God like you do to Santa Claus?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No, that's where praying comes in.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Bad girls like me can't pray.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Aw, you ain't a bad girl.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Then show me how to pray. I want to ask God for something.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You would. You lay down and go to sleep.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Regret knows everything. I'll ask Regret to show me how to pray.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Don't you go asking that mug Regret about anything. I'll show you how to pray.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Sorrowful Jones) in Little Miss Marker

Tommy Bitters: [Having just had Frost light a cigarette for him only to have it explode in his mouth] When are you going to stop playing these cheap childish tricks on me?
John R. Frost: The day you stop playing them on me.
Tommy Bitters: Well, at least mine are funny, and new!
John R. Frost: Oh, yeah? Well, mine work.


--Adolphe Menjou (as John Cardwell) in One Hundred Men and a Girl

Mary Matthews: Another thing - he used to hate to hear me swear. Whenever I'd let with something, he'd smack me on my sitter, hard. I've done a lot of swearing on this trip.
Jim Conover: And no smacks?
Mary Matthews: It's a small request, but I'd give anything for a good smack on my south end.
Jim Conover: I wish there was something I could do about that.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Jim Conover) in State of the Union

Bangles Carson: [about Marky] Well, you can't leave her here.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Afraid of the cops?
Bangles Carson: No, I'm afraid of the kid. I don't want her here. I'm not going sappy over her! I won't, see!
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You're already sappy over her.
Bangles Carson: But you're not?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No, she's just something I can't get rid of, because she's tangled up in a race deal.
Bangles Carson: She wasn't tangled up in a deal the first night you got her. You could've unloaded her then!
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You didn't stage no riot when she busted up your song in a night club!
Bangles Carson: You start reading about King Arthur to her!
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Yeah, and you take her out and buy her a lot of new clothes!
Bangles Carson: And you sit still for the bite without even being chloroformed!
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: All right, I did pay! Her clothes were falling off her.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Sorrowful Jones) in Little Miss Marker

Bangles Carson: Hiya, Tightwad.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Hello, Golddigger.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Sorrowful Jones) in Little Miss Marker

Norman Maine: Do you think I'm slipping?
Oliver Niles: Can you take it?
Norman Maine: Yeah, go ahead.
Oliver Niles: The tense is wrong. You're not slipping - you've slipped.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Oliver Niles) in A Star Is Born

Detective Reardon: Regret told me I'd find you here. This is one of your tickets, ain't it?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Yeah.
Detective Reardon: We found it in the pocket of a guy who killed himself. He had a kid. You know anything about it?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Uh, no.


--Adolphe Menjou (as Sorrowful Jones) in Little Miss Marker

Kay Thorndyke: But there is one question on his mind you better have the answer to.
Jim Conover: What's that?
Kay Thorndyke: He's beginning to wonder if there is any difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
Jim Conover: Now that's a fine question for a presidential candidate to ask. There's all the difference in the world. They're in and we're out!


--Adolphe Menjou (as Jim Conover) in State of the Union

Bruce Farraday: Radio! I hate it! Music from cans like soup!


--Adolphe Menjou (as ) in Sing, Baby, Sing