The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Monty Woolley: Sheridan Whiteside
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Quotes
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Sheridan Whiteside : [opening a box of candy] Ah, pecan butternut fudge!
Nurse Preen : Oh, my, you mustn't eat candy, Mr. Whiteside, it's very bad for you.
Sheridan Whiteside : My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102 and when she'd been dead three days she looked better than you do *now!*
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Sheridan Whiteside : Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?
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Bertram H. 'Bert' Jefferson : How do you think Ohio women stack up?
Sheriden Whiteside : I've never gone in for stacking women up so I really can't say.
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Sheridan Whiteside : Strange? She's right out of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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Sheridan Whiteside : And now, will you all now leave quietly, or must I ask Miss Cutler to pass among you with a baseball bat?
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Sheridan Whiteside : Go in and read the life of Florence Nightingale and learn how unfitted you are for your chosen profession.
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Sheridan Whiteside : This ageing debutante, Mr. Jefferson, I retain in my employ only because she is the sole support of her two-headed brother!
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Sheridan Whiteside : I simply will not sit down to dinner with midwestern barbarians, I think too highly of my digestive system.
Maggie Cutler : Harry Clarke is one of your oldest friends.
Sheridan Whiteside : My stomach is an older one.
Maggie Cutler : And Mrs. Stanley is president of the women's club.
Sheridan Whiteside : I wouldn't care if she was the whole cabinet.
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Sheridan Whiteside : Banjo, my lad, you're wonderful. I may write a book about you.
Banjo : Don't bother, I can't read!
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Nurse Preen : Mr. Whiteside, I can only be in one place at a time.
Sheridan Whiteside : That's very fortunate for this community.
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Sheriden Whiteside : Will you take your clammy hand off my chair? You have the touch of a love-starved cobra.
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Sheriden Whiteside : [a knock at the door] Nobody's home! The Stanleys have all been arrested for peddling dope! Go away!
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Sheridan Whiteside : Stand back please... I have several contagious diseases.
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Sheridan Whiteside : I suppose you've written the great American novel.
Bertram H. 'Bert' Jefferson : No, I've written the great American play.
Sheridan Whiteside : Well I don't want to read it.
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Sheridan Whiteside : How long can you stay?
Banjo : Just long enough to take a bath.
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Sheridan Whiteside : I shall require the exclusive use of this room, as well as that drafty sewer you call the library. I want no one to come in or out while I am in this room.
Mrs. Ernest Stanley : But we have to go up those steps to get to our rooms, Mr. Whiteside.
Sheridan Whiteside : Isn't there a back entrance?
Mrs. Ernest Stanley : Well, Yes...
Sheridan Whiteside : Then use that. Let me see, there will be a great many incoming and outgoing calls, so please do not use the telephone.
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Richard Stanley : I had to go to three different stores.
Sheridan Whiteside : How did you travel? By ox cart?
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Sheridan Whiteside : Will you both stop this female drooling. I have a headache.
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Sheridan Whiteside : Get your fish-hooks off me!
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Sheridan Whiteside : Suppose your parents are unhappy with you. It's good for them. It develops character.
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Sheridan Whiteside : We are not amused.
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Sheridan Whiteside : [to Chinese guests] Now let me ask you, gentlemen, is it true that in China, you drown middle-aged businessmen at birth?
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Mrs. Ernest Stanley : Mr. Whiteside! My cook and my butler, they've been with me for ten years.
Sheridan Whiteside : I am commuting their sentence.
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Maggie Cutler : She's Looking Very Well Isn't She..?
Sheridan Whiteside : Who..?
Maggie Cutler : The Countess Of Cyanide..!