- Lisa Douglas: I guess that's why I love you. You're always hollering, but underneath you have a soft spot in your head.
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: Heart!
- Lisa Douglas: There, too.
- Eb Dawson: [after botching up Oliver's dating advice] A fine father you are!
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: I'm not your father!
- Eb Dawson: I'm glad! The kind of advice you give your son, which I'm not and I don't intend to be!
- Eb Dawson: [about Betty Jo] She's got a face that'd any man forget his sardines.
- Oliver Wendell Douglas: You have a very romantic way of putting it.