- Eloise 'Mama' Curtis: When are you gonna settle down? You're worryin' me to death runnin' around with a different girl every night and gettin' to bed at all hours.
- Clifton Curtis: Mama, last night I was in the bed by 10:30.
- Eloise 'Mama' Curtis: What are you talkin' about? You didn't get home until four o'clock!
- Clifton Curtis: [devilish smile] Mm-hmm!
- Eloise 'Mama' Curtis: Now you gotta stop thinkin' about fun and pleasure and having a good time. It's time you started thinking about marriage.
- Clifton Curtis: Just because a girl likes having a little fun doesn't mean she's a tramp. In fact, the young lady I was out with last night happens to be an honor student in college.
- Eloise 'Mama' Curtis: I don't care how she does in class; it's her homework that worries me!
- Andrew Carruthers: Washington D.C. seems so right for this type of work, y'know?
- Eloise 'Mama' Curtis: Are you sure he's a lawyer and not a plumber?