The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)

Bobby Van: Dobie Gillis

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• Advisor : Now, what subjects would you like to study?

  Dobie Gillis : Well, I don't rightly know.

  Advisor : What are you interested in?

  Dobie Gillis : Women.

  Advisor : [pauses]  Perhaps you'd like to study obstetrics.

  Dobie Gillis : No, I'm not *that* interested.

• Dobie Gillis : I have a theory. There are two kinds of people: those who work and those who enjoy. The way I look at it, workers ought to work and enjoyers ought to enjoy.

• Dobie Gillis : Gee, I don't know, sir. I think the way the people use a language is the right way and if the rules says no, then the rule ought to be changed.

  Professor Amos Pomfritt : In the 25 years that I have devoted to this underpaid profession of teaching, I have heard many an asinine outburst but never one so asinine as yours. I can only assume that your recent passage through puberty has affected your mind, for you, sir, are a presumptuous driveler, a cretinous barbarian, a thick-tongued oaf, an ill-bred churl, and in the future, you will be good enough to keep your mindless opinions to yourself!

• Advisor : You don't approve of work?

  Dobie Gillis : Well, it's all right for workers.

• Pansy Hammer : Wowee! Dobie, look at that will you?

  Dobie Gillis : Yeah.

  Pansy Hammer : Look at that. Did you ever see anything so built in your whole life?

  Dobie Gillis : Yeah!

• Dobie Gillis : We'll work all night!

  Pansy Hammer : Here in the lab? But, Dobie, they don't allow students in the classrooms at night, especially students of mixed sexes.