Little Big Shot (1935)

Edward Everett Horton: Mortimer

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• Mortimer : We have everything now but a rubber plant.

• Mortimer : Ah, the aperitifs.

  Steve : I beg your pardon?

  Mortimer : I said aperitifs. That's a much smarter word than cocktails. It's so European.

• Mortimer : Look at Europe. The unrest. The chaotic state of politics.

• Gloria : Why don't you look were you're going?

  Gloria : I wasn't going. I was sitting.

  Mortimer : Well, why don't you look were you're sitting?

• Mortimer : Now, to proceed to the demonstration: e pluribus unum, corpus delicti, spitana, poof!

• Mortimer : You know a funny thing, no matter how many foreign countries our watches go to, they never change their faces.

  Gloria : Is that a joke, Mr. Thompson?

  Steve : He thinks so; but, don't encourage him.

• Onderdonk : What's the bet?

  Mortimer : I place the key our room right on this counter in full view. Over it, I put my imported alpine bonnet. Now, by the add of a few magic Abyssinian words, known only to myself and a few of the better Abyssinians, I can lift the key under the hat without touching that hat in any way, whatsoever.

• Nick - Wine Waiter : If you think I'm going to get soft-hearted about a couple of guys that use a child to hold down their dinner checks, you're crazy.

  Mortimer : Look here, look here, look here. You've got us all wrong.

• Gloria : I like your name, Mr. Mortimer.

  Mortimer : Oh, do you? Thank you, so much.

  Gloria : I had a dog named Mortimer once. He wasn't a very good dog though. But, I liked him anyway.

• Mortimer : Would you mind repeating that order.

  Soda Fountain Customer : A double caramel, strawberry, marshmallow, chocolate, oriental sundae with fresh fruit and pecans. Parfait.

  Mortimer : Parfait?

  Soda Fountain Customer : Parfait.

  Mortimer : Oh, parfait. I couldn't interest you in a plain vanilla soda?

• Mortimer : What do you think we better do?

  Jean : I think you better get a job.

  Mortimer : Oh, well, that's going too far.

  Jean : You're going farther than that if you're going anywhere.

• Ralph Lewis - the Rajah : Hey, you know, Steve, you know, there' must be somethin' radically wrong with my crystal. You know, I shoulda prophesied all this.

  Steve : Well, even we didn't know anything about the reward for the kidnappers. All of the sudden the newspapers dropped a bunch of dough right in our laps.

  Mortimer : And then we got married.

• Mortimer : Au revoir. Time files only to return.