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Jack Elinson Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“And you better gird your loins, buster. You got a fight on your hands.”
— Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith Show, Season 2: Barney's Replacement
Tagged: Gird Your Loins, Fight, Warning
“I ain't got time to stand around here and discuss trivial trivialities.”
— Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith Show, Season 2: Barney's Replacement
Tagged: Redundancy, trivial
“Deputy Barney Fife: He got the drop on me.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: You mean he had a gun?

Deputy Barney Fife: Ugh...well...he has NOW.”
— Barney Fife, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The Manhunt
Tagged: Got the Drop, Ineptitude
“I'm goin' downhill fast, and you're the one that pushed me.”
— Emma Brand, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: Ellie Comes to Town
Tagged: Downhill, Enabling
“Rose: Opie, dear, I'm marryin' Mr. Pine because I love him.

Opie Taylor: I thought you loved ME.

Rose: I do, Opie.

Opie Taylor: You don't catch me marryin' somebody else.”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The New Housekeeper
Tagged: Marriage, Cheating, Infidelity, Love
“Deputy Barney Fife: You'll never guess what's happened. Something big.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well, what is it?

Deputy Barney Fife: Biggest thing ever happened in Mayberry. REAL big. Big. BIG big.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well, now, now just simmer down, Barney. What is it?

Deputy Barney Fife: Well, I'm tryin' to tell ya.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well, so far, all I know is it's something big.

Deputy Barney Fife: Oh, 'big' ain't the word for it.”
— Sheriff Andy Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The Manhunt
Tagged: big, Hinting, Beating around the bush
“Opie Taylor: [entering the courthouse] Hi. You seen my pa? He's the sheriff.

Bobby Fleet: You mean he's human enough to have kids?

Opie Taylor: Huh?

Bobby Fleet: Never mind. He stepped out for a minute.

Opie Taylor: Oh. [looking at all the fellas] Pa musta rounded up a gang. You look like from the city. Are you a criminal?

Bobby Fleet: According to your pa I am.

Opie Taylor: Pa's never wrong. What crime did you do, criminal?

Bobby Fleet: I didn't do anything. Your old man framed the whole thing—the hick troublemaker. [Offended at this, Opie kicks Bobby in the shin]”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The Guitar Player
Tagged: Criminals, Gang
“Sheriff Andy Taylor: Anybody here know why these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace. I now pronounce you man...

Opie Taylor: I know why they shouldn't be married.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Opie, what're you tryin' to do?

Opie Taylor: I'm speakin' now so's I won't have to forever hold my peace.

Deputy Barney Fife: You're not supposed to speak.

Opie Taylor: Then why did he ask?”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The New Housekeeper
Tagged: Weddings, Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace, Hypocrisy
“Emma Brand: Aye, Sheriff, I come to report a murder.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: A murder?

Emma Brand: That's right.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Somebody's been murdered?

Emma Brand: Yes.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Who?

Emma Brand: Me!

Sheriff Andy Taylor: You?

Emma Brand: Yes, and I'll tell you who done it! That lady druggist, that's who!

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Miss, uh, Miss Walker?

Emma Brand: She's the one. Now, Sheriff, go arrest her. Do your duty.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well, now, Emma, they's...they's just the teensiest little technicality involved here. You ain't quite dead yet.”
— Sheriff Andy Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: Ellie Comes to Town
Tagged: Murder, filing a false police report
“Well, that's a fine day's work. You've outsmarted justice and you've made a mockery of this court, and you've turned three people against me that I would have sworn would never leave my side. Oh, I can understand a shiny, autographed baseball turning a little boy's head, but I am a little disappointed in Floyd, and I'm real disappointed in my deputy. He's a law officer and ought to know better. Congratulations, ma'am. Been quite a day's work.”
— Sheriff Andy Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, Season 2: Andy and the Woman Speeder
Tagged: Ruined, Friendships
“Edna Garrett: Alright, girls. What's all the shouting about?

Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek: Could you tell Mrs. Onassis here to stay out of my way? With her face creams and cologne bottles and hair sprays, I tell ya, I walk in here sometimes and I think I'm in a drugstore. I look around for the checkout stand.

Blair Warner: She should talk. It's not easy sleeping next to Mr. Goodwrench.”
— Blair Warner, The Facts of Life, Season 2: The New Girl
Tagged: Mr. Goodwrench, Jackie Onassis, Snobs, insults, Class Struggle
“Opie Taylor: Can I run away from home?

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Uh... you... you want to run away from home? Well, now, uh, if-if-if that's what you got on your mind, well, you-you goin' about it all wrong.

Opie Taylor: I am?

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Oh, yeah. You ain't supposed to ask your pa.

Opie Taylor: But you always said I should never go anyplace far without gettin' your permission.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: Well, yeah, I know I did say that, but, uh, see-see, running away from home is a little special. See, what you do in a case like that is first you write a note SAYIN' that you're runnin' away, and then you do it.

Opie Taylor: You mean to tell me that's all there is to it?

Sheriff Andy Taylor: That's all.

Opie Taylor: But I don't know how to write.

Sheriff Andy Taylor: That does make a problem.”
— Opie Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show, season 1: The New Housekeeper
Tagged: Runaway, Running Away From Home
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