The Man in Possession (1931)
Robert Montgomery: Raymond Dabney
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Quotes
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Raymond Dabney : Charm should be worth something.
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Clara : [Standing beside Crystal Wetherby] Well, don't stand there looking at me.
Raymond Dabney : I wasn't looking at you.
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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.
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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.
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Crystal Wetherby : Oh, you're mad.
Raymond Dabney : Yes, I've told you that before.
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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.
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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.
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Raymond Dabney : It's a new jackpot. And it's opened on a pair of knaves.
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Raymond Dabney : I hope you'll be sorry to lose me.
Clara : Hope's cheap.
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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?
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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.
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Raymond Dabney : She must be full off money.
A Bailiff : It's the sort it always happens to.
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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.