- Lorelei Lee: Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?
- Esmond Sr.: Have you got the nerve to tell me you don't want to marry my son for his money?
- Lorelei Lee: It's true.
- Esmond Sr.: Then what do you want to marry him for?
- Lorelei Lee: I want to marry him for YOUR money.
- Mr. Esmond Sr.: Say, they told me you were stupid! You don't sound stupid to me!
- Lorelei Lee: I can be smart when it's important. But most men don't like it.
- [Dorothy is admiring some athletes]
- Gus Esmond: Dorothy Shaw. I want you to remember you're supposed to be the chaperone on this trip.
- Dorothy Shaw: Now lets get this straight, Gus. The chaperone's job is to see that nobody else has any fun. Nobody chaperones the chaperone. That's why I'm so right for this job.
- [Staring at Lorelei and Dorothy]
- Evans: Say, suppose the ship hits an iceberg and sinks. Which one of them do you save from drowning?
- William J. Stevens: Those girls couldn't drown.
- Ernie Malone: It seemed a good idea to bring some drinks. Here are your cigarettes.
- Dorothy Shaw: Oh, you're a dear. Good boy.
- Lorelei Lee: I've been wondering, what is your line, Mr. Malone?
- Ernie Malone: My line? Well, my most effective one is to tell a girl that she has hair like a tortured midnight, lips like a red couch in an ivory palace, that I'm lonely and starved for affection. Then, I generally burst into tears. It very seldom works.
- Dorothy Shaw: You idiot.
- Lorelei Lee: [Lorelei is holding a tiara] How do you put it around your neck?
- Dorothy Shaw: You don't, honey, it goes on your head!
- Lorelei Lee: You must think I was born yesterday.
- Dorothy Shaw: Well, sometimes there's just no other possible explanation.
- Dorothy Shaw: Honey, did it ever occur to you that some people just don't care about money?
- Lorelei Lee: Please, we're talking serious here.
- Dorothy Shaw: You know I think you're the only girl in the world who can stand on a stage with a spotlight in her eye and still see a diamond inside a man's pocket.
- Lorelei Lee: There was an old fellow named Sidney... Who drank 'til he ruined a kidney. It shriveled and shrank, but he drank and he drank... He had his fun doing it, didn't he?
- Lorelei Lee: Pardon, please, is this the way to Europe, France?
- Passport Official: To where?
- Dorothy Shaw: Not Europe, France, honey. France is *in* Europe.
- Lorelei Lee: Well, who said it wasn't?
- Dorothy Shaw: Well, you wouldn't say is this the way to North America, Mexico, would you?
- Lorelei Lee: If that's where I wanted to go, I would.
- Dorothy Shaw: The dealer passes.
- Dorothy Shaw: You mean you eat at six and have to be in bed at nine?... Holy smoke! Nine o'clock. That's just when life just begins!
- Lorelei Lee: [sing] A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, / But diamonds are a girl's best friend. / A kiss may be grand, but it won't pay the rental on your humble flat. / Or help you at the automat. / Men grow cold as girls grow old, and we all lose our charm in the end. / But square-cut or pear-shaped, these rocks won't lost their shape. / Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
- Olympic athlete: Hi. Remember me?
- Lorelei Lee: Yes. You're one of the Olympic athletes.
- Olympic athlete: I'm the only 4-letter man on the team.
- Lorelei Lee: You should be ashamed to admit it. No, don't say another word. No, don't say another word.
- Dorothy Shaw: Listen, either you hock some of that stuff or get the price of a diamond tiara out of him.
- Lorelei Lee: How much do you think a diamond tiara will cost?
- Dorothy Shaw: Fifteen thousand at least.
- Lorelei Lee: [Concentrates] Let's see, that'll take an hour and 45 minutes.
- Lorelei Lee: I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.
- Dorothy Shaw: I certainly want to know who the players are. For instance, who's the young man who just tried to steal second base?
- Ernie Malone: Name is Malone.
- Dorothy Shaw: I'm Shaw, Dorothy. Well, Mr. Malone?
- Ernie Malone: You're the most attractive girl in the room so I came over to tell you. Do you mind?
- Dorothy Shaw: No, I might as well warn you, flattery will get you anywhere.
- Ernie Malone: In that case we haven't got any problems.
- Gus Esmond: [as she tries on the diamond ring he's just given her] Is it the right size?
- Lorelei Lee: Well, it can never be too big. Do you think that's too small, Dorothy?
- Dorothy Shaw: [whistles] Looks like it oughta have a highball around it.
- Lady Beekman: It's a tiara.
- Lorelei Lee: You DO wear it on your head. I just LOVE finding new places to wear diamonds.
- Lady Beekman: You'll find I mean business!
- Dorothy Shaw: Oh, really? Then why are you wearing that hat?
- [Lorelei is stuck going through the porthole]
- Henry Spofford III: All right. I'll help you. I'll help you for two reasons.
- Lorelei Lee: Never mind the reasons. Just help me.
- Henry Spofford III: The first reason is I'm too young to be sent to jail. The second reason is you've got a lot of animal magnetism.
- Dorothy Shaw: Bottom's up!
- [Dorothy, Lorelei and Ernie drink their cocktails]
- Dorothy Shaw: He looks like he's going to explode.
- Ernie Malone: What was that?
- Lorelei Lee: Just equal parts of Scotch, Vodka, Brandy, and Gin.
- Lorelei Lee: Dorothy. Mr. Esmond and I are getting married.
- Dorothy Shaw: To each other?
- Gus Esmond: Of course to each other. Who else to?
- Dorothy Shaw: Well, I don't know about you Gus, but I always figured Lorelei would end up with the Secretary of the Treasury.
- Gus Esmond: [trying to have a serious talk with Lorelei, but she is bouncing up and down on the bed] Dear... dear... dear, stop that! It's most distracting.
- Lady Beekman: You might be interested in my tiara. I always carry it with me. Afraid to leave it in the stateroom.
- Dorothy Shaw: And you're not afraid to show it to Lorelei?
- Dorothy Shaw: [singing] I like a beautiful hunk of man. But I'm no physical culture fan. Ain't there anyone here for love?
- Henry Spofford III: Hey, look someone's coming.
- Lorelei Lee: Oh dear, what'll I do?
- Henry Spofford III: Quick! Hold this around your neck tight!
- Lorelei Lee, Dorothy Shaw: [singing] We're just two little girls from Little Rock, We lived on the wrong side of the tracks, But the gentlemen friends who used to call, They never did seem to mind at all, They came to the wrong side of the tracks...
- Ernie Malone: I'm not that bad all the time. Sometimes I'm very nice. Sometimes I just speak without thinking.
- Dorothy Shaw: I get the picture. You're half sweet and half acid.
- Lorelei Lee: I can't get over that passenger list. Calling a young boy "mister." A girl could waste a whole trip to Europe if she trusted a passenger list.
- Dorothy Shaw: Then, you think we better give up the whole idea, huh?
- Lorelei Lee: Well, if he was 16 or 17, even, you could marry him in Tennessee.
- Gus Esmond Jr.: Dorothy Shaw, I'm counting on you to keep those athletes to yourself.
- Dorothy Shaw: What a coincidence! That's my plan too.
- Dorothy Shaw: Honey, did it ever occur to you that some people just don't care about money?
- Lorelei Lee: Please, don't be silly. We're talking serious. You don't want to end up with a loveless marriage, do you?
- Dorothy Shaw: Me, loveless?
- Lorelei Lee: That's right. Because, if a girl spends all of her time worrying about the money she doesn't have - how is she going have any time for being in love? I want you to find happiness and stop having fun.
- Dorothy Shaw: That baffles me.
- Lorelei Lee: You'll thank me someday.
- Lorelei Lee: If you had a daughter, wouldn't you rather she didn't marry a poor man? You'd want her to have the most wonderful things in the world and to be very happy. Well, why is it wrong for me to want those things?
- Lorelei Lee: There's one other place it could be.
- Dorothy Shaw: Where?
- Lorelei Lee: His pants.
- Dorothy Shaw: Well, we'll have to get those too.
- Lorelei Lee: Would you rather I did it alone?
- Dorothy Shaw: No. I think two heads are better than one.
- Lorelei Lee: I suppose so.
- Dorothy Shaw: It's ticklish business anyway you look at it.
- Lorelei Lee: I did not steal Lady Beekman's tiara.
- Lady Beekman: Then perhaps you'll explain how it happens to be in your possession?
- Lorelei Lee: Suppose we say that's my affair.
- Ernie Malone: Well, that's one explanation.
- Lorelei Lee: Why did you just stand there and let him kiss you?
- Dorothy Shaw: You want to hear something crazy? I think I'm falling in love with that slob.
- Lorelei Lee: Oh, you just feel that way because he's poor.
- Dorothy Shaw: I hope so.
- Dorothy Shaw: [singing] When love goes wrong, nothing goes right. This one thing, I know.
- Lorelei Lee: [singing] When love goes wrong, a man take flight.
- Dorothy Shaw: [singing] And women get uppity-oh.
- Henry Spofford III: Hello.
- Lorelei Lee: Oh, Mr Spoffard. Would you please give me a hand? I'm sort of stuck!
- Henry Spofford III: Are you a burglar?
- Lorelei Lee: Heaven's no! The steward locked me in. I was waiting for a friend.
- Henry Spofford III: Why didn't you ring for him?
- Lorelei Lee: I didn't think of it. Isn't that silly?
- Henry Spofford III: If you were a burglar, and I helped you escape...
- Lorelei Lee: Please help me before somebody comes along.
- Henry Spofford III: I'm thinking.
- Ernie Malone: [complaining to the steward as he's lead from the girls' room after their "dinner party"] It's just not fair. Two against one. Take a man's pants.
- Dorothy Shaw: What were you doing before Piggy started barking like a seal?
- Lorelei Lee: That wasn't barking, that's Swahili.
- Lorelei Lee: Where's Dorothy?
- Gus Esmond Jr.: Oh, I don't know. Someone whistled at her and she disappeared.
- Dorothy Shaw: Doubles, anyone? Court's free! Two out of three, anyone? Doesn't anyone want to play?
- [singing]
- Dorothy Shaw: I like big muscles, And red corpuscles, I like a beautiful hunk of man...
- Lorelei Lee: What do you do for a living?
- Ernie Malone: Oh, that kind of a line. Nothing, I'm afraid. Just clip coupons and live off the fat of the land.
- Lorelei Lee: Coupons. That's like money, isn't it?
- Ernie Malone: Very similar.
- Lorelei Lee: I'm so pleased Dorothy's taken an interest in you. I mean, she's never been interested in anyone worthwhile.
- Ernie Malone: No taste, eh?
- Dorothy Shaw: No, I'm a hobo collector. I might even find room for you.
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