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Alexander Bullock:
We've got to come to an understanding right now: either Carlo is or I am.
Angelica Bullock:
Am what?
Alexander Bullock:
Well, one of us has got to and that's all there is to it.
Blake:
Take a look at the dizzy old gal with the goat.
Alexander Bullock:
I've had to look at her for 20 years - that's MRS. Bullock!
Blake:
I'm terribly sorry!
Alexander Bullock:
How do you think I feel?
Godfrey:
Do you think you could follow an intelligent conversation for a minute?
Irene:
I'll try.
Irene:
You have a wonderful sense of humor. I wish I had a sense of humor, but I can never think of the right thing to say until everybody's gone home.
Alexander Bullock:
All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people.
Master of Ceremonies:
Are you wanted by the police?
Godfrey:
That's just the trouble. Nobody wants me.
Godfrey:
May I be frank?
Molly:
Is that your name?
Godfrey:
No, my name is Godfrey.
Molly:
All right, be frank.
Godfrey:
Why can't you let me alone?
Irene:
Because you're my responsibility and someone has to take care of you.
Godfrey:
I can take care of myself.
Irene:
You can't look me in the eye and say that. You love me and you know it. You know, there's no sense in struggling against a thing when it's got you. It's got you and that's all there is to it - it's got you!
Angelica Bullock:
If you're going to be rude to my daughter, you might as well at least take your hat off!
[tt the city dump]
Irene:
Could you tell me why you live in a place like this when there's so many other nice places?
Godfrey:
You really want to know?
Irene:
Oh, I'm very curious.
Godfrey:
It's because my real estate agent felt that the altitude would be very good for my asthma.
Irene:
Can you butle?
Godfrey:
Butle?
Irene:
Yes, we're fresh out of butlers. The one we had left this morning.
Godfrey:
The only difference between a derelict and a man is a job.
Irene:
[about Godfrey] He's my proteg?
Godfrey:
Do you mind telling me just what a scavenger hunt is?
Irene:
Well, a scavenger hunt is exactly like a treasure hunt, except in a treasure hunt you try to find something you want, and in a scavenger hunt you try to find something that nobody wants.
Godfrey:
Hmm, like a forgotten man?
Irene:
That's right, and the one who wins gets a prize, only there really isn't a prize. It's just the honor of winning, because all the money goes to charity, that is, if there is any money left over, but there never is.
Godfrey:
Well, that clears the whole matter up beautifully.
Godfrey:
Does the butler have quarters here in the house, or is that necessary?
Molly:
Oh, you won't need any quarters. Just hang your hat near the door so you can get it quickly on the way out.
Molly:
Mr. Bullock, there's a hansom cab driver waiting to see you in the kitchen.
Alexander Bullock:
What's he want?
Molly:
He wants $50 and his horse.
Alexander Bullock:
What horse?
Molly:
The one Miss Irene rode up the front steps last night.
Alexander Bullock:
Where is his horse? I haven't got it!
Molly:
It's in the library, where Miss Irene left it.
Alexander Bullock:
I've just been going over last month's bills, and I find that you people have confused me with the Treasury Department.
Cornelia Bullock:
Oh, don't start that again, Dad.
Alexander Bullock:
I don't mind giving the government 60% of what I make. But I can't do it when my family spends 50%!
Irene:
Well, why should the government get more money than your own family?
Cornelia Bullock:
Will you do me a big favor?
Faithful George:
Who do you want killed?
Cornelia Bullock:
I'll do my own killing.
Angelica Bullock:
What happened, what did you say to Carlo?
Alexander Bullock:
I said goodbye.
Angelica Bullock:
Did he go?
Alexander Bullock:
Yes he left very hurriedly through the side window
Angelica Bullock:
You mustn't come between Irene and Godfrey. He's the first thing she's shown any affection for since her pomeranian died last summer.
Godfrey:
These flowers just came for you, miss. Where shall I put them?
Irene:
What difference does it make where one puts flowers when one's heart is breaking?
Godfrey:
Yes, miss. Shall I put them on the piano?
Godfrey:
Hasn't anyone ever told you about certain proprieties?
Irene:
You use such lovely big words. I like big words. What does it mean?
Godfrey:
Well, I'll try to simplify it. Hasn't your mother or anyone ever explained to you that some things are proper and some things are not?
Irene:
No she hasn't. She rambles on quite a bit, but then she never has anything to say.
Angelica Bullock:
My ancestors came over on the boat. Oh, not the Mayflower, but the boat after that. What did your ancestors come over on, Godfrey?
Godfrey:
As far as I know, they've always been here.
Angelica Bullock:
They weren't Indians, I hope.
Godfrey:
One can never be sure of one's ancestors.
Angelica Bullock:
You know, you have rather high cheek bones...
Angelica Bullock:
Oh, Alexander, you missed all the excitement.
Alexander Bullock:
What's going on?
Angelica Bullock:
Oh, let me see. I knew what it was I wanted to say, but somehow it slipped my mind.
Alexander Bullock:
What's the matter with Irene?
Angelica Bullock:
Oh, yes, that's it. Irene's got herself engaged!
Alexander Bullock:
To whom?
Angelica Bullock:
Oh, I don't know, Van something-or-other. I think he's the boy with his arm around that girl in pink. He's got lots of money.
Alexander Bullock:
Well, he'll need it.
Detective:
[notices Carlo by the french doors] Who's that?
Irene:
It's mother's proteg?
Detective:
No wisecracks. Is that your son?
Alexander Bullock:
That? Say, listen. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I'll be hanged if I'll plead guilty to that!
Detective:
Just a minute, sister!
Molly:
If I thought that were true, I'd disown my parents.
Detective:
[chuckles] So you got a passion for jewelry, huh?
Molly:
Yes... I got a passion for socking cops.
Detective:
Where are they?
Molly:
Most of them are in cemeteries.
Irene:
I went to Venice, and one night I went for a ride in one of those rowboats that the man pushes with a stick. Not a matador. That was in Spain. But something like a matador.
Godfrey:
Do you, by any chance, mean a gondolier?
Irene:
That was the name of the boat!
Godfrey:
That's most of your stock. I knew it had been dumped on the market, so I sold short.
Angelica Bullock:
I don't understand. You sold short. You mean gentlemen's underwear?
Irene:
Life is but an empty bubble.
[Irene poses dramatically]
Cornelia Bullock:
Oh, I remember that pose so well. I learned it in Dramatics School. It's Number 8 isn't it?
Faithful George:
Yep, that's Number 8 all right.
Cornelia Bullock:
Am I spoiling your act, dear?
Irene:
[under her breath to Cornelia] I'll spoil something of yours someday and it won't be your act!
Alexander Bullock:
Life in this family is one subpoena after another.
Irene:
Godfrey loves me! He put me in the shower!
Irene:
Godfrey's gonna be our butler.
Angelica Bullock:
He's gonna be who's butler?
Irene:
He's gonna work for us.
Angelica Bullock:
Oh, that's ridiculous. You don't know anything about him. He hasn't any recommendations...
Irene:
Well, the last one had recommendations and stole all the silver.
Angelica Bullock:
Well, that was merely a coincidence.
Godfrey:
People who take in stray cats say they make the best pets, madam.
Angelica Bullock:
I don't see what cats have got to do with butlers.
Cornelia Bullock:
You can't go on like this forever. You really like me and you're afraid to admit it, aren't you?
Godfrey:
You want me to tell you what I REALLY think of you?
Cornelia Bullock:
Please do.
Godfrey:
As Smith or as a butler?
Cornelia Bullock:
Choose your own weapon.
Godfrey:
You won't hold it against me?
Cornelia Bullock:
It's your day off.
Godfrey:
Very well. You belong to that unfortunate category that I would call the "Park Avenue brat". A spoiled child who's grown up in ease and luxury... who's always had her own way... and who's misdirected energies are so childish that they hardly deserve the comment, even of a butler on his off Thursday.
Cornelia Bullock:
[hurt and angry] Thank you for a very lovely portrait.
[Molly - the maid - brings drinks in to the living room where the police are questioning the family about the pearls]
Detective:
Who are you?
Molly:
Guess.
[last lines]
[Irene is getting ready to marry a surprised Godfrey]
Irene:
Stand still, Godfrey. It'll all be over in a minute.
Irene:
I'm terribly grateful. This is the first time I've ever beaten Cornelia at anything and you helped me do it.
Godfrey:
Well, that makes me a sort of Cornelia beater doesn't it?
Godfrey:
Opportunity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty:
Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
Irene:
That's a lovely view of the
[Brooklyn]
Irene:
bridge. Is it always there?
Godfrey:
Most of the time.复制复制成功复制失败，请手动复制
