Personal Property (1937)

E.E. Clive: Cosgrove Dabney

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• Raymond Dabney : My crime wasn't so serious.

  Cosgrove Dabney : Not so serious!

  Raymond Dabney : Was it?

  Cosgrove Dabney : To buy a motor car and sell it without having paid for it, not serious?

  Raymond Dabney : You and Claude spend your whole lives buying woman's underwear on credit and immediately selling it!

• Mrs. Burns : What is your line, Mr. Dabney? It must be very interesting, I'm sure.

  Claude Dabney : Me? Oh. I'm in ladies underwear.

  Mrs. Burns : What?

  Cosgrove Dabney : Well, we're both in ladies underwear.

  Mrs. Burns : Really? How very odd.

• Cosgrove Dabney : Supposing my broker says to me: now, this stock will go up! Or, this stock will go down. What do I say? I say to him: my dear fella, my business is ladies' underwear. And that does not go up and it does not go down. It stays just where it is.