Safety Last! Quotes

  • Bill, The Pal: I'll be at the next floor up, just as soon as I am through ditching the cop.

    Harold - The Boy: [feeling exasperated with Bill for the delay and scared from the height and exhausted from his having to keep climbing up one floor-level after another] You BE THERE - - or I will be THROUGH!

  • Harold - The Boy: Oh, pal _ She's just got to believe that I'm successful _ until I am.

  • Title Card: Mr. Stubbs _ Head Floorwalker. Muscle-bound _ From patting himself on the back _

  • Harold - The Boy: If it ain't Jim Taylor of Great Bend! You o-l-d rascal! How you have got on in the world -...

  • Mildred's Mother: Don't you think it's dangerous for a young man to be alone in the city, with so much money? -...

  • Dept Store General Manager: The idea of working in your shirt sleeves! Think of the shock to your customers _ women of culture and refinement.

  • Harold - The Boy: [Pretending to be the General Manager] STUBBS. - - I don't wish to be annoyed by any more of your petty complaints about personal appearance - - You know, you're no collar ad, yourself.

  • Bill, The Pal: Say, for five hundred dollars I'd climb to Heaven, an' hang by my heels from the pearly gates.

  • Old Lady With Flower Hat: Young man, don't you know you might fall and get hurt?

  • Bill, The Pal: Make this next floor faster. I'm having a little difficulty in ditching the cop.

  • Title Card: There were certain days of the week when she could be sure of a letter from him. They were Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.