The Fortune Cookie Quotes

Willie Gingrich: Unwed mothers? I'm for that!

Movie: The Fortune Cookie
Willie Gingrich: What about Mrs. Cunningham vs. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Ohio, number eighty-nine twenty-seven. Mrs. Cunningham, en route to Cincinnati to visit dying uncle, gets trapped in the toilet on account of a faulty lock. The car is hitched to another train. Mrs. Cunningham winds up in San Bernadino California. By this time, the uncle is dead and she's cut out of the will, so she sues the railroad for damages. Does this ring a bell?
O'Brien: Never heard of it!
Willie Gingrich: None of this has? Because you, gentlemen, represented the railroad.
O'Brien: We did?
Willie Gingrich: And lost the case.

Movie: The Fortune Cookie
[about Willie Gingrich, his shyster lawyer brother-in-law]
Harry Hinkle: He's so full of twists. He starts to describe a donut and it comes out a pretzel.

Movie: The Fortune Cookie