Elizabeth: Oh, my duck does a wonderful trick. My duck can lay an egg.
Mrs. Higgins: And just what is so wonderful about that?
Elizabeth: Well, can *you* lay an egg? (pause)... Oh, excuse me.


--Shirley Temple (as Elizabeth Blair) in Curly Top

Elizabeth: What's a lawyer?
Edward Morgan: Well, if you ever get into trouble, a lawyer is a person who gets you out of trouble.
Elizabeth: Oh, my. I could use one almost every day!


--Shirley Temple (as Elizabeth Blair) in Curly Top

Heidi: [Church bells chiming] I like to hear the church bells, don't you, Grandfather?
Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: Get to bed.
Heidi: Shall I say my prayers out here with you?
Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: I told you to go to bed!
Heidi: Yes, Grandfather. I think I'll go to bed now, Grandfather. Good night!


--Shirley Temple (as Heidi Kramer) in Heidi

Heidi: Grandfather, I've found my bed. I'll sleep on the hay. I suppose I ought to have a sheet and coverlet.
Heidi: [louder] I say, I suppose I ought to have a sheet and coverlet.
[her grandfather ignores her]
Heidi: Well, I've always had a sheet and coverlet, but if there aren't any, I could sleep under the hay.


--Shirley Temple (as Heidi Kramer) in Heidi

Heidi: How do you do, Fräulein Rottenmeier?
Fräulein Rottenmeier: What is your name?
Heidi: Heidi.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Heidi? Ridiculous. What name did they give you when you were baptized?
Heidi: I don't remember that.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Are you being impudent?
Dete: No, Fräulein. She didn't understand. She was baptized Adelheid.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Hmm. She looks too young. How old is she?
Dete: She's older than she appears. She's nearly eleven.
Heidi: Aunt Dete doesn't tell the truth. I'm eight years old today.


--Shirley Temple (as Heidi Kramer) in Heidi

Heidi: No! No! You musn't take him away! He's telling the truth! He is my grandfather! My really and truly grandfather! Please! Please let him go!
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Come on! Don't be hysterical!
Heidi: Grandfather!
Police Captain: We'll want you for the trial. Take your child home.
Heidi: I am not her child! She's a bad lady! She tried to sell me to gypsies! Please. Please let the Grandfather take me home. He didn't mean to do anything bad. I'll work hard and pay back for everything he broke. So will Swanli and Bearli.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Pay no attention to her. She'll be all right when I get her to bed.
Heidi: I won't go with her! She broke my snowstorm and sent my Aunt Dete away so she couldn't take me home to the mountains! If you don't believe me, just ask Herr Sesemann. He'll tell you the truth.
Police Captain: Herr Sesemann? What has Herr Sesemann to do with this?
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Nothing. Nothing at all.
Heidi: He has too. Aunt Dete brought be there to play with Klara, and I taught her how to walk.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Oh, this is ridiculous. Come along.
Police Lieutenant: Now just a minute.
Police Captain: Well now, lieutenant?
Police Lieutenant: Perhaps we'd better send for Herr Sesemann.
Fräulein Rottenmeier: Oh! Absurd! We - Well, we visited the Sesemann house tonight. Christmas, you know. My sister's governess there. It would be highly improper to disturb Herr Sesemann at this hour.
Police Lieutenant: I think you'd better wait until we hear what Herr Sesemann has got to say.
Heidi: Grandfather! Grandfather!


--Shirley Temple (as Heidi Kramer) in Heidi

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Trying to hand me mush!
Bangles Carson: Don't you like it?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: No!
Bangles Carson: Say, "No, thank you." Say it like this: "No, thank you, Bangles. I don't care for any."
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: What for?
Bangles Carson: Well, you used to say "thank you" and "no, thank you."
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: I used to be a sissy.


--Shirley Temple (as Marthy 'Marky' Jane) in Little Miss Marker

Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You are Lady Guinevere.
Doc Chesley: King Arthur's Lady Guinevere?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You know about it, too?
Doc Chesley: Yes.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Did you ever break a lance for a lady fair?
Doc Chesley: Not recently. Who is Sir Gallahad, Marky?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: He's the best of all. I haven't seen him around here. But I know who you are.
Doc Chesley: Yes?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: You are the kind keeper.
Bangles Carson: The kind keeper of what, Marky?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Of the charger. The horse the princess rides.
Bangles Carson: Who told you about all this?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: My mommy used to read to me about King Arthur.
Bangles Carson: Where is your mother, Marky?
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: My mommy got awfully tired, and went away. She's never coming back anymore.


--Shirley Temple (as Marthy 'Marky' Jane) in Little Miss Marker

Mary Lou Rogers: Hello, Sonny, what have you got there?
Sonny Rogers: Phyllis, do you know anything about dogs?
Phyllis: Sonny Rogers, how did you ever happen to bring home a thing like that?
Mary Lou Rogers: Did somebody throw it away, Sonny?
Sonny Rogers: Oh, shut up, both of you.
Phyllis: But Sonny, I thought you hated dogs.
Sonny Rogers: Can't you see the poor dog's sick? We've gotta take care of it, and you've gotta help.
Mary Lou Rogers: Are you gonna let Dad and Mother see her?
Sonny Rogers: We better give her a bath first.
Mary Lou Rogers: Oh, goody, goody, goody! We're gonna give the dog a bath!


--Shirley Temple (as ) in Pardon My Pups

Molly Middleton: [to her dog, Mr. Smith] I think it would be easier for them if you weren't here, either, so you and me, we'll run away. Now, don't make a fuss, Smithy. We've got to remember that we're growed up now. Besides, you have me and I have you. We'll always have each other, won't we, Smithy? We'll go to Heaven's Gate first and say goodbye to it, and then we'll go a long ways away.


--Shirley Temple (as ) in Our Little Girl