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The Man in Possession (1931)

Quotes

The Man in Possession

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  • Clara: Are you trying to be funny?
  • Raymond Dabney: Yes.
  • Clara: Try harder.
  • Raymond Dabney: Charm should be worth something.
  • Clara: [Standing beside Crystal Wetherby] Well, don't stand there looking at me.
  • Raymond Dabney: I wasn't looking at you.
  • Raymond Dabney: It's curious how little practical value a college education has in modern life. What I didn't learn was how to make four pence into nine pence.
  • Claude Dabney: So, you sold a motor car for which you hadn't paid.
  • Crystal Wetherby: Clara, never pay cash. How do you expect to establish credit?
  • A Bailiff: No complaints, I hope?
  • Crystal Wetherby: No.
  • A Bailiff: Good. I always like my men to give satisfaction. As I say, always behave like a gentleman.
  • Clara: Find something to do! Mend the fire! Draw the shades! Put on the lights!
  • Raymond Dabney: [Ticks them off on his fingers] Mind the fire, draw the shades, put on the lights.
  • Clara: In the drawing room.
  • Crystal Wetherby: Oh, you're mad.
  • Raymond Dabney: Yes, I've told you that before.
  • Mrs. Dabney: The Prodigal Son's father didn't act like that.
  • Mr. Dabney: The Prodigal Son's father was an ass.
  • Mr. Dabney: When I think of all the advantages that you've had - the best education money could buy.
  • Claude Dabney: Quite!
  • Raymond Dabney: I wonder.
  • Mr. Dabney: You wonder?
  • Raymond Dabney: I ought never to have gone to Cambridge.
  • Mrs. Dabney: I always said I preferred Oxford.
  • Crystal Wetherby: [Raises her cocktail glass for a toast] Well, to my creditors.
  • Raymond Dabney: [Raising his glass] May you never be able to pay them.
  • Raymond Dabney: It's a new jackpot. And it's opened on a pair of knaves.
  • Claude Dabney: I shall be back... early tomorrow morning.
  • Crystal Wetherby: I shan't be up until eleven. Good night!
  • Raymond Dabney: I hope you'll be sorry to lose me.
  • Clara: Hope's cheap.
  • Raymond Dabney: Didn't you pretend to be rich?
  • Claude Dabney: She was marrying me for my money?
  • Raymond Dabney: Well, what do you think she was marrying you for?
  • Crystal Wetherby: Raymond! Here -- do something with these.
  • [She hands him a huge pile of bills and statements]
  • Crystal Wetherby: Uh, shall I pay them?
  • Crystal Wetherby: Could you?
  • Raymond Dabney: I could if I had the money.
  • Crystal Wetherby: Burn them.
  • Raymond Dabney: She must be full off money.
  • A Bailiff: It's the sort it always happens to.
  • Claude Dabney: Crystal, I demand an explanation.
  • Crystal Wetherby: You demand? You'd better go, Claude - you're being silly.
  • Claude Dabney: If I go, I may not come back.
  • Crystal Wetherby: Well, if you don't go, I may not want you to come back.
  • Raymond Dabney: Are you always this way, Clara - proud and austere?
  • Clara: I like to keep myself to myself, thank you.
  • Raymond Dabney: That, Clara, is a mistake. It leads to a lonely old age.
  • Mrs. Dabney: Raymond is your son.
  • Mr. Dabney: Raymond is a jail bird.

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