Don Diego: You have one bad habit.
Nina Maria Azara: Oh, yes? What?
Don Diego: You're always saying good-bye.
Nina Maria Azara: Very well then, I won't say good-bye. I'll just go!


--Jeanette MacDonald (as Nina Maria Azara) in The Firefly

James: Lambchop, do you remember that wonderful, romantic honeymoon we never had?
Mary: I remember it as though it were tomorrow.


--Jeanette MacDonald (as ) in Broadway Serenade

Queen Louise: Why am I always awakened from my dreams?


--Jeanette MacDonald (as ) in The Love Parade

Sarah Millick, later Sari Linden: [over a very sparse dinner] Oh well, maybe it's all for the best. I hear more people die from overeating than from any other cause.
Carl Linden: I bet we'll be immortal, then. I hate Herr Weiller.
Sarah Millick, later Sari Linden: I hate the market keeper.
Carl Linden: I hate the landlord.
Sarah Millick, later Sari Linden: That's not fair, *I* was going to hate the landlord. *You* hate Herr Weiller again.


--Jeanette MacDonald (as Sarah Millick) in Bitter Sweet

Ramerez: I hope I'll see you again sometime. Yeah?
Mary Robbins: I hope I'll see you again sometime too. Dangling on the end of a rope!


--Jeanette MacDonald (as ) in The Girl of the Golden West

Victor: Every morning you and I will ride Teresa through the park. The sun will shine, the birds will sing, the flowers will bloom...
Shirley: And I'll yell for the police!


--Jeanette MacDonald (as ) in The Cat and the Fiddle

[first lines]
Homer Smith: Have you ever been in San Francisco?
Marcia Warren: Yes, once with Gable and Tracy and the joint fell apart!


--Jeanette MacDonald (as Marcia Warren) in Cairo