The Man in Possession (1931)

Robert Montgomery: Raymond Dabney

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Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.