Dames (1934)
Guy Kibbee: Horace
Quotes
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Horace P. Hemingway : Y-You get out of here!
Mabel : Why? I don't snore.
Horace P. Hemingway : S-S-Snore?
[He hurries out the compartment. Mabel settles back into the bed]
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Horace P. Hemingway : He had heard that I'd had a baby. That is, my wife, Mathilda, had it.
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Ezra Ounce : Are you a moral man, Mr. Hemingway?
Horace P. Hemingway : Well, I like to think so.
Ezra Ounce : Well, don't you know?
Horace P. Hemingway : Oh, yes, yes, I'm a moral man.
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Horace P. Hemingway : Mathilda and Barbara send their love to you.
Ezra Ounce : Barbara sends her love to me?
Horace P. Hemingway : Yes, Ezra.
Ezra Ounce : Why should she send her love to me? She's never seen me.
Horace P. Hemingway : Well, she's seen your picture.
Ezra Ounce : Well, then, maybe she's sending her love to my picture.
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Ezra Ounce : He told me the tire would run 10,000 miles. What happened? It only ran 9,998 miles. It's dishonest! False representation, that's what it is. I don't want a new tire. Sounds eccentric but I can afford to be eccentric. I've got $35 million. You haven't got $35 million. You can't afford to be eccentric. What are you shaking your head for?
Horace P. Hemingway : Because, I can't afford to be eccentric, Ezra
Ezra Ounce : That's what I said.
Horace P. Hemingway : Well, that's what I mean.
Ezra Ounce : Well, why didn't you say so?
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Ezra Ounce : Have you ever purposely sinned?
Horace P. Hemingway : No, not much, on purpose.
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Ezra Ounce : I shall take a second 10 million to form the O.F. for the E. of A.M.
Horace P. Hemingway : The what?
Ezra Ounce : The Ounce Foundation for the Elevation of American Morals.
Horace P. Hemingway : You can elevate a lot of morals for $10 million, Ezra.
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Horace P. Hemingway : Oh, you dreadful woman! How did you get in my room?
Mabel : Hello, Horace.
Horace P. Hemingway : You - you - you can't smoke in here.
Mabel : I am smoking.
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Mabel : I'll tell him about our purple night. That we were train roommates. I'll show him your card.
Horace P. Hemingway : How - how much did you say you'd take?
Mabel : Twenty-five thousand.
Horace P. Hemingway : You said twenty the first time.
Mabel : Why didn't you pay me the first time?
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Horace P. Hemingway : That's the bathroom.
Mathilda : What do you suppose I thought it was? The Bank of England?
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Horace P. Hemingway : What are you going to do?
Mabel : What are you going to do, Horace?
Horace P. Hemingway : Don't! Don't call me by my first name.
Mabel : Okay, P. P's your second name, isn't it?
Horace P. Hemingway : P stands for Peter.
Mabel : All right, Pete.
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Horace P. Hemingway : I mean it. This is serious!
Jimmy Higgens : So what? You're serious and I'm going daffy.
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Horace P. Hemingway : No nudity at all. I'm disappointed. Agreeably, of course.
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Horace P. Hemingway : I'm just a victim of fate.
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[everyone has been hitting the Dr. Silver's Golden Elixir]
Ezra Ounce : Very beautiful.
Mathilda : Very, very beautiful.
Horace P. Hemingway : Oh, very, very, *very* beautiful.