“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.” – Charlie McCarthy

 

Mae West: “So, good-time Charlie’s gonna play hard to get? Well, you can’t kid me. You’re afraid of women. Your Casanova stuff is just a front, a false front.”

Charlie McCarthy: “Not so loud, Mae, not so loud! All my girlfriends are listening.”

Excerpt from a 1937 radio skit.

 

A Charlie McCarthy comic book from 1948.