- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Saints be praised, there are no parlor snakes in Ireland. St. Patrick drawed them out too.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: [after she drives a runaway car into a duck pond] Well I'm glad THAT'S over.
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: Say, my fine young boy, can you tell me where I might find Patrick Shamus O'Connell?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: I can that, me fine lady.
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: What do you mean lady?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: So, what do mean boy? I'm Patrick O'Connell's daughter, Peg.
- Patrick Shamus 'Pat' O'Connell: The way of makin' a lady of her, I suppose. Oh, well, I admit there are some things I can't teach her.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Call me that name again. So, I'll feel warm 'til you come after me. Call me, your name for me.
- Patrick Shamus 'Pat' O'Connell: Peg o' me Heart.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: 'Tis a funny job you've got, ain't it? Walkin' 'round lookin' mad all the time.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Oh, don't mind me seein' you kissin'. Sure, kissin' is nothin' at all. Me father says that, "lovin' without kissin' is like fishin' without bait. "
- Mrs. Chichester: My dear, I'm sure we shall all get along very nicely together. Now, let me see, you're called Margaret, aren't you?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: No. Me name's Peg. Me father calls me that, ma'am.
- Mrs. Chichester: Well, we shall call you Margaret.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Don't blame me if I don't answer, ma'am.
- Mrs. Chichester: And don't call me ma'am.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Yes, ma'am. I mean, no, ma'am.
- Jarvis (butler): Makes a blasted monkey out of me, she does.
- [Smythe giggles]
- Jarvis (butler): Smythe?
- Smythe (maid): Beg pardon. I was thinkin' a hippopotamus I saw at the zoo.
- Mrs. Chichester: Aunt. I'm not ant.
- Mrs. Chichester: [giggles] An ant is an insect.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: [giggles] Oh, sure, I know. I had 'em. The little red ones are the worst. They jump at your legs, crawl up your back, and into your pants, until you feel crazy.
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: Peg.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: But, they do jump and bite, your honor.
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: Yes. But, it's best to ignore them.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Have you ever had ants in your pants, your honor?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: You get around me, you do. Somethin' in the way you look when you say the simplest things. Your eyes, now, they talk more than your tongue.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Ye won't be stayin' long away, will ye?
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: No longer than is positively necessary.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: I'll be that glad to see you again.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Me father says, "You can't make a silk purse out of a souse's ear." And that's what I am: a souse's ear.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Ethel and me was wonderin'...
- Mrs. Chichester: Ethel and *I*.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Yes, both of us.
- Mrs. Chichester: I can't understand what makes you so impudent, Margaret. After all, I've treated you like one of my own children. I've been like a mother to you.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: A lot ye know about bein' a mother to anybody. Me own father knows more about bein' a mother than you do!
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: Why it's? It isn't?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Would you know it was me? Know it was I? Oh, its terrible hard to remember it's I when it's me all the time.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Wait a minute, while I catch me breathe.
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: Am I holding you too tightly?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: No, but ye might try it.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Alaric is teachin' me how to ride a horse without bein' injured in - with one place.
- Alaric Chichester: I'm going to ask a very charming young lady to marry me.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Are you sure you have the courage to do it?
- Alaric Chichester: Well, if I haven't, I jolly well wasted a bottle of brandy.
- Alaric Chichester: When we're married, you - you must give up Michael.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Give up me dog? What would I have to take his place?
- Alaric Chichester: You'd have me.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: I'll keep me dog.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: What did you want to talk about?
- Alaric Chichester: Well, the general subject was love, you know, jolly old passion and all that sort of rot. It makes the world go round.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: So does whisky, me father says.
- Alaric Chichester: Seriously, Margaret, you know something of love.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Yes. Perhaps I know more about it than anybody else in this house, this night. It's a feelin' that makes you miserable one minute and wildly happy the next. It brings sorrow to you, sometimes. But, it's also the only thing that puts wings on the heart of you.
- Alaric Chichester: Can't say I ever felt those symptoms, exactly. I presume it attacks different people in different ways.
- Alaric Chichester: Who do you think it is?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: I dunno.
- Alaric Chichester: Guess.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: I couldn't possibly guess who'd marry you, Alaric.
- Alaric Chichester: Who would it be?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: That's the question: who?
- Alaric Chichester: Who?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Who?
- Alaric Chichester: Who?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Who? I'm askin' ya, not playin' hoot owl. Who is it?
- Alaric Chichester: You.
- Alaric Chichester: I say, Margaret, you're a brick!
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: A what?
- Alaric Chichester: A "A" number one, first chop brick!
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Him and me together, we'll set off for Timbuktu. You remember, that's the place we was talkin' about goin' to the day you brought me here instead.
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: You mean where the heathens wear the cast off pantaloons of the Christians?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: The same. We'll take 'em me father's old suit. Oh, we'll have a grand time travelin', we will.
- Ethel Chichester: I'm afraid I've loved you awfully, Chris. And I've given you plenty of chance to prove that you love me more than you do her money. It's sorted, isn't it.
- Alaric Chichester: Give us a little dance, then. Why not? You have feathers in your feet!
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Sure it is a grand combination we'd make then, what with you havin' them in your head.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: You don't know what he's really like. He's got eyes for every girl he sees.
- Ethel Chichester: You're lying!
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: I'm not lying. He's tried to make love to me a dozen times behind your back.
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: What's the matter?
- Alaric Chichester: The Chichester family has fallen flat on its, eh...
- Mrs. Chichester: Alaric!
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: Your father isn't there.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: He's here? Saints preserve us! And me wastin' time talkin'. Where is me father?
- Sir Gerald 'Jerry' Markham: He's not here, Peg.
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: Oh, you're foolin' me. He's not here and he's not there? Where is me father?
- Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell: [singing] It's a love light that's shinin' for someone, Sure, I'm wonderin' just who it could be... '