Vesta Vernoff:
[after discovering the "body" of her stepfather] Poor Nannie!
Detective Dempsey: Who's Nannie?
Detective Harold Kelly: Nannie's a goat! Whooooooo!
--Hugh Herbert (as ) in Sh! The Octopus
Detective Dempsey: Who's Nannie?
Detective Harold Kelly: Nannie's a goat! Whooooooo!
--Hugh Herbert (as ) in Sh! The Octopus
Patterson 'Pat' Buckley:
Mr. Jenkins, I don't want to embarrass you, but they really want to get married first.
[slips money into Mr. Jenkins's hand]
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Oh, I see, sparring for your liberty, eh? Well, I don't blame you, I don't blame you...
--Hugh Herbert (as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace) in Four's a Crowd
[slips money into Mr. Jenkins's hand]
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Oh, I see, sparring for your liberty, eh? Well, I don't blame you, I don't blame you...
--Hugh Herbert (as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace) in Four's a Crowd
Hattie 'Mom' Frink:
If you lose this job, its curtains. There isn't another paper in town that will take you back, and I mean that Joe.
Joe 'Poppa' Frink: Yeah, well, maybe somebody will start a new paper!
--Hugh Herbert (as ) in The Merry Frinks
Joe 'Poppa' Frink: Yeah, well, maybe somebody will start a new paper!
--Hugh Herbert (as ) in The Merry Frinks
Yvonne:
Do you think they will send him to jail?
Toto: Oh sure, he hasn't got a chance. Now if he were only a murderer...
--Hugh Herbert (as ) in One Rainy Afternoon
Toto: Oh sure, he hasn't got a chance. Now if he were only a murderer...
--Hugh Herbert (as ) in One Rainy Afternoon
Hubert Smith:
[driving in the rain over a bumpy road] As an antique dealer, Mr. Penny, what do you think of this road?
Mr. Penny: Oh, I'd hate to meet the worms that made these holes. Whoo-hoo!
--Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat
Mr. Penny: Oh, I'd hate to meet the worms that made these holes. Whoo-hoo!
--Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat
Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher:
He must be full of marches after a revolution like this.
--Hugh Herbert (as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher) in The Great Waltz
--Hugh Herbert (as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher) in The Great Waltz
Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher:
Mark my words, young man, if it hasn't got the imprint of Hofbauer, it isn't even music.
--Hugh Herbert (as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher) in The Great Waltz
--Hugh Herbert (as Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher) in The Great Waltz
Mr. Penny:
[looking at the cats on the grounds after the rainstorm] It looks like it's been raining cats and cats around here.
--Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat
--Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat
Mr. Penny:
[referring to Abigail] What a puss! Like a lemon rinse!
--Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat
--Hugh Herbert (as Mr. Penny) in The Black Cat
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace:
Sarah? Sarah?
Mrs. Sarah Jenkins: What?
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Couple'a chumps on the way, wanna get hitched.
Mrs. Sarah Jenkins: At this hour?
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Why not? you caught me at half-past two in the morning in a weak moment.
--Hugh Herbert (as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace) in Four's a Crowd
Mrs. Sarah Jenkins: What?
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Couple'a chumps on the way, wanna get hitched.
Mrs. Sarah Jenkins: At this hour?
Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace: Why not? you caught me at half-past two in the morning in a weak moment.
--Hugh Herbert (as Silas Jenkins, Justice of the Peace) in Four's a Crowd
