- Surely you wouldn't deny your poor old father a drop on a cold night like this.
- I would if I could.

5 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:50:11.682 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Are his intentions honorable?

- I doubt it.

- But they're going to be properly chaperoned by Fred Derry and his wife.

- Fred Derry? Ha. Some chaperone.

- I think she's crazy about him.

- Who, Merrill?

- No, Fred.

- Have you got any evidence to support that amazing statement?

- Just a hunch.

- Oh.

- But my hunches are pretty good.

- Ah, cocktails.

- Oh, no, you don't. I made this for Woody Merrill, he's coming to pick me up.

- Surely you wouldn't deny your poor old father a drop on a cold night like this.

- I would if I could.

- I hear you're gonna see Fred, hmm?

- Yes.

- What's his wife like?

- I don't know. I'll tell you later.

- They'll have cocktails at the Union Club.

- I know the kind Mrs. Milton serves. Pink, sweet and nauseating.

- I was just asking Peggy about Fred's wife.

[...]