Design for Scandal (1941)

Jean Rogers: Dotty

Quotes 

• Jeff Sherman : Dotty, how would you like to take out a marriage license with me?

  Dotty : [Throws her arms around him]  Babeeeee!

  Jeff Sherman : Oh, no, no. Wait a minute. I didn't say anything about using it. This is pure business.

  Dotty : I might've known.

• Dotty : Why wouldn't she come?

  Jeff Sherman : Dotty, the first thing a smart man learns is never to worry why a woman changes her mind.

  Dotty : An old Chinese proverb, huh?

  Jeff Sherman : Yeah.

  Dotty : I don't think you're slipping.

  Jeff Sherman : No?

  Dotty : No. I think you're numb from the shock of falling.

• Dotty : But you're wasting your breath. He's ga-ga over that female law book.

• Judson M. Blair : That's just exactly what this young lady is going to claim in our suit - alienation of your moth-eaten affections. Judge Porter stole them.

  Dotty : Petty larceny.

• Jeff Sherman : [When the police come to arrest him]  She wouldn't do a thing like that.

  Dotty : Honey, the first thing a smart man learns is to never worry about why a woman changes her mind.