- Eric Phillips: [shouting over the loud music] What's it called?
- Polly Haines: Music!
- Eric Phillips: I can tell that by the instruments, but what's the name of it?
- Polly Haines: Roll Me Up In Breadcrumbs, Daddy, Cause I Wanna Get Fried!
- Horace Willoughby: Aren't you interested in the Cleopatra Arms, Mr. Phillips?
- Eric Phillips: Well, yes of course I'm interested, I mean you see Mr. Danilo, he makes all my investments.
- Horace Willoughby: Well the Cleopatra Arms is hardly an investment in stone, wood and plumbing, Mr. Phillips. To 53 people, it spells home.
- Eric Phillips: Oh, that's fine.
- Horace Willoughby: Name any other building in Morningside Heights that has a marquee to protect its tenants in bad weather.
- Eric Phillips: I'm sure I couldn't.
- Horace Willoughby: I've turned down a great many people who wanted to buy the house, Mr. Phillips. But when you came along, I felt that turning it over to an artist, someone with a soul, that'd be different.
- Eric Phillips: But I really don't own the Cleopatra Arms. Well that is, I do, but it's just something with which I would never concern myself.
- Horace Willoughby: But, Mr. Phillips, that's absentee ownership. Now Mr. Danilo, well, he's a businessman. I never would have sold him my Cleopatra Arms.
- Eric Phillips: Well then buy it back, I really don't care.
- Horace Willoughby: Oh, I can see that. To you, it's just another investment. I suppose if she don't pay enough, you'll tear her down, eh?
- Eric Phillips: She? Her? Oh, the building.
- Horace Willoughby: Yes, the building.
- [he declaims]
- Horace Willoughby: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky.
- [All looking up; the butler salutes]
- Horace Willoughby: .