- Peggy O'Brien: Just think, someday i'll be Mrs. Doctor Pennypepper E. Pennypepper... then I'll find out what the E. stands for!
- Peggy O'Brien: There's nothing automatic about this apartment, you want something done, you'll have to do it yourself.
- Joan Butterfield: You don't do your own laundry do you?
- Peggy O'Brien: Oh yes, this is my maid's year off!
- Joan Butterfield: Pennypepper E. Pennypepper.
- Peggy O'Brien: Uh huh.
- Joan Butterfield: What's the E. for ?
- Peggy O'Brien: I don't know... just to break up the monotony, I guess.
- Joan Butterfield: Well, it was having so much that made me realize how little I really had. I'll never go back to having so little again as long as I live.
- Peggy O'Brien: Oh, er, hello, Dorothy. Oh, er, this is my room-mate, and this is Joan.
- Joan Butterfield: How do you do?
- Dorothy Moore: Do you mind if I'm not pleased to meet her?
- Peggy O'Brien: [laughs weakly] Cute kid! Listen, she has no place to stay so I asked her to stay here tonight.
- Dorothy Moore: Did it ever occur to you that I might have something to say about that? After all, I pay half the room rent.
- Peggy O'Brien: Aw, now, Dorothy, the poor kid has no place else to go.
- Joan Butterfield: Please, I don't want to cause any trouble.
- Peggy O'Brien: Oh, she don't need cause to start any trouble.
- Dorothy Moore: Nobody can talk to me like that. I'm leaving!
- Joan Butterfield: Oh, please...
- Peggy O'Brien: Oh, now, let her go.
- Dorothy Moore: That's what I get for mixing with riffraff!
- [exits]
- Peggy O'Brien: [to Joan after she offers to sell her coat] Honey, the nearest I can get to a coat like that is petting my cat.
- Bill' Spencer: How much do you earn a week?
- Peggy O'Brien: Well, I earn fifty dollars, but they only pay me eighteen.
- Joan Butterfield: [holding a slip] Peggy, there's a woman over there who wants to know if this lingerie will run.
- Peggy O'Brien: Well, eh, not unless there's somebody in it. Tell her no.
- Bill' Spencer: I wonder why they don't build roofs on the ground floor.
- Joan Butterfield: Then you'd have to climb downstairs to get up.
- Bill' Spencer: Oh, I knew I shouldn't have asked you that.
- Bill' Spencer: Joan, remind me to tell you that...
- Joan Butterfield: What?
- Bill' Spencer: I think you're swell.
- Joan Butterfield: Oh, Bill. You're an awful chump.
- Bill' Spencer: Nobody ever called me chump twice in... .
- [they kiss]
- Bill' Spencer: .
- Bill' Spencer: Either you're a pretty swell girl, or I'm an awful chump.
- Joan Butterfield: You're an awful chump.
- Joan Butterfield: Oh, Bill, how can you talk like that. I've got my heart and soul in this stew.
- Bill' Spencer: You better put a piece of meat in there too.
- Joan Butterfield: Oh, look, where's your canary?
- Peggy O'Brien: Oh, uh, Penny gave me the cage for my birthday last year. This year I get the bird.
- Mr. Stevens - Editor: See here, Spencer. You have to give me more respect, or better copy.
- Bill' Spencer: Okay, boss, I'll give you better copy.
- Bill' Spencer: I still can't understand how... a girl who's been used to so much can be satisfied with so little.
- Joan Butterfield: Well, it was having so much that made me realize how little I really had. I'll never go back to having so little again as long as I live.
- Bill' Spencer: And here I always thought I was a pretty smart fella. If I ever had anybody figured wrong, it was you.
- Bill' Spencer: You're not proposing to me, are you?
- Joan Butterfield: Who, me? Of course not. It wouldn't be manly.
- Joan Butterfield: I'm worried about Bill. How do you supposed he'll feel when he finds out about all this?
- Peggy O'Brien: Well, if he really loves you, your being rich won't make him think any of the less of you.