Forsaking All Others (1934)

Clark Gable: Jeff Williams

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Quotes 

• Mary Clay : Jeff, has it ever occurred to you that this is none of your business?

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : It's none of my business when I see a dog being whipped, but I'll stop it every time.

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Come on, Shemp, my boy. We've only got one night to do a week's drinking.

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : You ever look at a milkman?

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Shemp, you know Spain's fine; but, I hope I never go back. You know, when that Statue of Liberty waved at me, she positively had sex with me.

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Two years of it. Work, work, work, all day long. And at night, a nice peaceful quiet Spain. Boy, but now that I'm home and all of that lovely Brooklyn noise, baby, I'm gonna stay here. New York! What a town! Hard, cold, unfriendly, everything bad. But, baby, I love it! You know, when I got a look at that skyline today, baby, I'm telling you, I got a thrill like I've never had in my life before. The Woolworth's building. The Chrysler building. Oh, babe! Hey, taxi, taxi!

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Darling, I lived in Madrid. It's like Paris.

  Aunt Paula : Oh really, I understood it's quite savage, jungles and things.

  Mary Clay : Paula's never read Ernest Hemmingway.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Evidently not.

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Come on, let's get out of here. I've got to go drink myself into proper condition to give the bride away.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : I got just the drink. You take a jigger of brandy, a pony of rye, three fingers of vodka, a dash of radium and stand well back.

• Hotel Manager : Well, if you're awake, why don't you open your eyes?

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : I can't. I' afraid they'll drop out.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : We went to a bachelor dinner last night. He ate too much ice cream

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : You know, between the two of us, we managed to get one man undressed.

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Just as soon as I can arrange my business, I'm going back to Spain and get into a nice, quiet, revolution!

• Aunt Paula : And this is the living room, if you can call it living.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : Cheery, isn't it dear?

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yes, yes,. Truly, truly.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : Tell me, madam, how far are you from the nearest school?

  Aunt Paula : 30 miles by horse and dog sled.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : Well, that's good enough for junior.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yes, too good. Ah, darling, how many bedrooms do we need?

  Shemp 'Shempy' : Well, one for you and the nurse, and one for my mother.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yeessss.

  Shemp 'Shempy' : [to Aunt Paula]  My mother's been living with us since we were married.

  Mary Clay : [Who had been listening to all of this, from the doorway]  Oh, ho, you fools.

• Mary Clay : [Going through her mail with Jeff]  Gas bill, $35 - how'd that happen?

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Hmmm, any suicides in your house last month?

  Mary Clay : Only three or four, but they wouldn't have used that much gas.

• Shemp 'Shempy' : What is that smell, fresh air?

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Yeah, and don't breathe too much of it - it's liable to collapse your lungs.

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : You're not going to that party?

  Mary Clay : Oh yes, I am.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Oh, Mary, you're leading with your chin. That woman just wants to humiliate you. You're not ready for a thing like that.

  Mary Clay : Ah, Jeff, how little you know what goes on in a woman's mind. Connie doesn't want me at that party. Don't you see. This is the humiliation. She pictures me crying into a pillow with the note crushed in my hand. She thinks I'm being just too miserable for words. Well, we're going to that party, Jeff Williams, and we're going to have the time of our lives.

• Mary Clay : Happy for me?

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : If you're happy, I'm happy.

  Mary Clay : Oh, I am, terribly.

• Jeffrey 'Jeff' : [Speaking to Dill's new wife, Connie]  Yes, yes, but, please hear my story. You know, I started life in the service of Mary's grandfather, one Colonel Lionel Q. Clay, of the Confederate army.

  Dillon 'Dill' : Union army.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Confederate.

  Dillon 'Dill' : Union army.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : Confederate.

  Dillon 'Dill' : I beg your pardon, Union army.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : I was, at that time, a colored slave and very anxious for the South to win, so I could collect my back pay. I'm still trying to collect.

  Mary Clay : [Sarcastically]  How dare you say that! We once paid you a dollar eighty on account.

• Mary Clay : Wood chopping! That's what does the trick. The greatest exercise in the world.

  Jeffrey 'Jeff' : [Chuckles]  Yeah.

  Mary Clay : Oh, you don't believe me huh? Well feel.

  [She raises her arm for Jeff to feel, he squeezes and she slaps his hand and pulls away] 

  Aunt Paula : People from miles around come to pick up wood. They think she's crazy.