Arizona (1940)

Jean Arthur: Phoebe Titus

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• Phoebe Titus : Doggone it, Peter. If this is what its like to be in love, I'm glad I'm only going to love but once.

• Phoebe Titus : Now sometime before morning, I'm going to let off both barrels of this shotgun right at you. I don't know just what time it'll happen... whenever my finger gets to itching too much. But you can depend on it. You're gonna have a double hole blown clear through you. Maybe ten minutes, maybe two hours. All you have to do is sit comfortable until I think it's the right time.

• Peter Muncie : Who said I was goin'?

  Phoebe Titus : You'll go.

  Peter Muncie : Yes, I'll go. Because a man in love with a woman don't have his right mind.

• Phoebe Titus : Now, if I don't start seeing my money, I'm going to shoot.

  Lazarus Ward : There will be no killin' in my place.

  Phoebe Titus : Since when, since this morning? Alright, put that money on the table or get ready to feel lead.

• Phoebe Titus : I need some needles and another sack of flour for those dull-darn pies.

  Solomon Warner : Those dull-darn pies are makin' you a good livin'!

  Phoebe Titus : There are better ways than that to get ahead. How much are your needles?

  Solomon Warner : A quarter a piece.

  Phoebe Titus : Twenty-five cents! Why, you ole Scotchman! What do you have to do? Find them in a haystack?

• Peter Muncie : I don't like him.

  Phoebe Titus : How do you know? You never met him before.

  Peter Muncie : I've got a good nose.

  Phoebe Titus : He happens to be something you'll never be - a gentleman.

  Peter Muncie : He happens to be a sweet lookin' dude and a woman that would pay any heed to him ought to have her her head looked into!

  Phoebe Titus : Oh, I see. In other words you think I'm just plumb crazy!

• Phoebe Titus : I started this trouble for you, started by talking like a darned old woman.

  Peter Muncie : Oh, straighten up. You're supposed to be the man around here.

  Phoebe Titus : Not any more.

• Peter Muncie : A wagon train come in headin' for California and I'm joinin' up with it.

  Phoebe Titus : When?

  Peter Muncie : Sundown.

  Phoebe Titus : Well, sundown is a good time to leave. Indians don't hanker much for night fightin'.

• Phoebe Titus : Mr. Oury, am I hearing you right? Are you talking about giving Arizona back to the Indians?

  Grant Oury : That's one way of saying it, Phoebe.

  Judge Bogardus : Like Oury says, it's better to leave what we built here than get our bones picked clean by buzzards.

  Phoebe Titus : What did you ever build?

• Phoebe Titus : Are you asking me to marry you?

  Peter Muncie : Around about. Is there still something you don't like about me?

  Phoebe Titus : No, it's not that. If there wasn't something I didn't like about a man, I couldn't stand the sight of him.

• Phoebe Titus : I'll get this off my chest...

• Phoebe Titus : Ward, you've got an idea you run this town, so I'll set you right about one thing. I've got my livestock and a pie business to take care of. That don't leave me much time for chasin' thieves! Keep your men away from my place or I'll double-load this gun and blow a whole in you that they could drive a team of mules through.