“The Major and the Minor” quotes

“You'll excuse me, I won't join you. I find adolescence makes you nervous enough.”

Diana Lynn - Lucy Hill

“- Susan Applegate: What do you expect me to do?
- Lucy Hill: Help.”
Ginger Rogers - Susan Applegate
Diana Lynn - Lucy Hill

“I'm through. After one year and 25 jobs in New York, Susan Applegate is signing off. Signing off and going right back where she came from.”

Ginger Rogers - Susan Applegate

“My only regret is that I have but one wife to give to my country.”
Robert Charles Benchley - Mr. Osborne

“I think you underestimate us, Major Kirby. Perhaps all a woman wants is to be a photograph a soldier tacks above his bunk or a stupid lock of hair in the back of his watch.”

Ginger Rogers - Susan Applegate

“- Major Kirby: That's why we say a girl like you is attractive.
- Susan Applegate: Am I?
- Major Kirby: Yes. You have very nice eyes and good straight legs and theirs a sort of glow to your hair.”
Ray Milland - Major Kirby
Ginger Rogers - Susan Applegate

“Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?”
Robert Charles Benchley - Mr. Osborne

“When you felt the urge to become an Uncle, you should have found a less inflammatory niece.”

Rita Johnson - Pamela Hill