Branded (TV Series)

The Greatest Coward on Earth (1965)

Pat O'Brien: Phineas T. Barnum

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• Phineas T. Barnum : Big fella, do you think that Napeleon and Abe Lincoln would sue me?

  Jason McCord : Not very well, they're dead.

  Phineas T. Barnum : So are you, McCord, now that you've made the history pages. And as far as the law is concerned, you are as dead and as extinct as a dodo bird.

• Phineas T. Barnum : Big fella, I don't believe you ran at Bitter Creek, and if you did... it wasn't from anything human.

• Phineas T. Barnum : Am Indian's an Indian.

• Phineas T. Barnum : Carnival? You're talking to Phineas T Barnum. This is the biggest show on earth.

  Jason McCord : Fine. You oughta be good for $50.

• Phineas T. Barnum : I'll bill you as the Pride of the Plain, the Fiery Cyclone, the Towering Terror, or anything you like. I'll have your pictures on the billboards ten feet high.

• Phineas T. Barnum : All right, all right. You drag your two pals out of here and get them glued together.

• Hotel Clerk : Well, you're a very shrewd businessman, BT, and I try to copy you. They tell me you follow one hard and fast rule, never sell a good thing outright, you know, well, lock, stock and barrel.

  Phineas T. Barnum : You want a percentage. Is that it? NO DEAL!

• Phineas T. Barnum : What happened to your accent?

  Princess Salome : Relax, blue eyes, they don't no come here to hear my accent.

• Phineas T. Barnum : Barnum always gets the first billing, and there'll never be a Barnum and Bailey Circus, big fella.