Six of a Kind (1934)
W.C. Fields: Sheriff John Hoxley
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Quotes
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Dr. Busby : [Looking at John's warped pool cue] It's seems crooked, isn't it?
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : I'd like to see something in this joint that isn't crooked!
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Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : It's the old saying... It takes a thief to catch...
Mrs. K. Rumford : AHEM!
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : ah, must have been thinking about something else.
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Flora Whinney : Don't talk so loud!
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : I always talk loud. I'm a sheriff.
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Dr. Busby : How do you feel?
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : I feel as though the Russian Army has been walking over my tongue in their stocking feet.
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Mrs. K. Rumford : Now, listen to me, Honest John, why do you drink so much?
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : Because I like it.
Mrs. K. Rumford : Everything you like to do is wrong.
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : According to you, everything I like to do is either illegal, immoral. or fattening.
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Mrs. K. Rumford : John?
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : Yeah?
Mrs. K. Rumford : Are you busy?
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : [Sarcastically] I'm about as busy as a pickpocket in a nudist colony.
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Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : [investigating a disturbance in his hotel] What do you want?
Flora Whinney , Gracie De Vore : A man, a man.
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : Don't. You embarrass me.
Gracie De Vore : But you don't understand. A man came into our room without even knocking.
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : What kind of a man?
Gracie De Vore : A man with a suitcase.
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : What color?
Gracie De Vore : Black.
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : How tall was he?
Flora Whinney : I don't know. He was bent over.
Nuggetville Sheriff 'Honest John' Hoxley : An Ethiopian hunchback with a suitcase. Now we're getting somewhere.
