yes:
Affirmation, consentment, agreement; a sex-positive word.QUOTES:
(1) Fun-loving Félicienne (Eva Gabor) explains how she came to take a champagne bath with a Duke in A New Kind of Love (1963): ' How could I say no when it's so much easier to say yes? '
(2) Dr. Prokosch (Oscar Homolka) to his student Cathy ( Kim Novak ) who proposes to be the live-in girlfriend of three married men for her sociology thesis in Boys' Night Out (1962):
-- Prokosh: ' Can you look like yes and act like no? Can you entice them, lure them, then pospone, evade, delay? It needs a special kind of experience and skill. This a nice girl has not learned .'
-- Cathy: ' No. This is what a nice girl has learned best .'
(3) Prince Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) to Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald) in The Merry Widow (1934): ' Your left eye says yes and your right eye says no . Fifi, you're cockeyed .'
(4) Charlie 'C.D.' Bales (Steve Martin) impersonating Chris in the balcony scene with Roxanne Kowalski (Daryl Hannah) in Roxanne (1987):
-- Charlie : ' There's a tiny word. It's not a noun, it's not a verb, it's not an adjective. I don't know what it is, but if you said it to me tonight all the blackness would go away and you and I would be connected by a tunnel of light .'
-- Roxanne: ' What's the word, Chris? '
-- Charlie : ' Yes. '
(5) Professor Henry R. Quail (W.C. Fields) to Peggy Hopkins Joyce (as herself) International House (1933): ' Here's a chance to have a laugh on every other girl in the world .'
(6) Sgt. Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) flirting with Rika Van Den Haas (Patsy Kensit), in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989): ' Come on , be original. Say yes. Everybody else says no .'
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