The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Cary Grant: C. K. Dexter Haven
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Quotes
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Macaulay Connor : Doggone it, C.K. Dexter Haven. Either I'm gonna sock you or you're gonna sock me.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Shall we toss a coin?
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[Dexter has just proposed]
Tracy Lord : Dexter, are you sure?
C. K. Dexter Haven : Not the least, but I'll risk it. Will you?
Tracy Lord : You bet! You didn't do it just to soften the blow?
C. K. Dexter Haven : No, Tracy.
Tracy Lord : Nor save my face?
C. K. Dexter Haven : Oh, it's a nice little face.
Tracy Lord : Oh Dexter, I'll be yar now. I'll promise to be yar.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Be whatever you like, you're my redhead.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : Sometimes, for your own sake, Red, I think you should've stuck to me longer.
Tracy Lord : I thought it was for life, but the nice judge gave me a full pardon.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Aaah, that's the old redhead. No bitterness, no recrimination, just a good swift left to the jaw.
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George Kittredge : But a man expects his wife to...
Tracy Lord : Behave herself. Naturally.
C. K. Dexter Haven : To behave herself naturally.
[George gives him a look]
C. K. Dexter Haven : Sorry.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : You'll never be a first-class human being or a first-class woman until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty.
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Tracy Lord : You hardly know him.
C. K. Dexter Haven : To hardly know him is to know him well.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : Orange juice, certainly.
Tracy Lord : Don't tell me you've forsaken your beloved whisky and whiskies?
C. K. Dexter Haven : No-no-no-no. I've just changed their color, that's all. I'm going for the pale pastel shades now. They're more becoming of me. How about you, Mr. Connor? You drink, don't you - alcohol, I mean?
Macaulay Connor : Oh, a little.
C. K. Dexter Haven : [amused] A little? And you a writer? Tsk, tsk, tsk. I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. You know, at one time I think I secretly wanted to be a writer.
[he and Tracy exchange scornful looks]
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Macaulay Connor : [calling outside his house] C.K. Dexter Haven! Oh, C.K. Dexter Haven!
C. K. Dexter Haven : [coming to the door in his pajamas] What's up?
Macaulay Connor : You are.
C. K. Dexter Haven : I only hope it's worth it. Come in.
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Elizabeth Imbrie : We've come for the body of Macaulay Connor.
C. K. Dexter Haven : I'm so glad you came. Can you use a typewriter?
Elizabeth Imbrie : No, thanks, I've got one at home.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : [looking for the "hair of the dog"] Do you s'pose, sir, speaking of eye-openers...?
Uncle Willie : Oh, that's the first sane remark I've heard today. C'malong, Dexter, I know a formula that's said to pop the pennies off the eyelids of dead Irishmen.
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Macaulay Connor : [speaking of Tracy] What are her leading characteristics?
C. K. Dexter Haven : She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house.
Elizabeth Imbrie : Leading characteristics to be filled in later.
Macaulay Connor : I can fill them in right now: the rich, rapacious, American female. There's no other country where she exists.
Elizabeth Imbrie : And would I change places with Tracy Samantha Lord for all her wealth and beauty? Oh boy just ask me.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : I'm sorry, but I thought I better hit you before he did. He's in better shape than I am.
Macaulay Connor : Well you'll do!
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Macaulay Connor : What's this? Is it my book?
C. K. Dexter Haven : Yes.
Macaulay Connor : C. K. Dexter Haven, you have unsuspected depth!
C. K. Dexter Haven : Thanks, old chap.
Macaulay Connor : But have you read it?
C. K. Dexter Haven : When I was trying to stop drinking, I read anything.
Macaulay Connor : And did you stop drinking?
C. K. Dexter Haven : Yes. Your book didn't do it, though.
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Tracy Lord : Dexter, say something.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Well, I...
Tracy Lord : Oh, Dexter, I'm such an unholy mess of a girl.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Well, that's no good. That's not even conversation.
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Elizabeth Imbrie : I remember your honeymoon quite well. You and she on a little sail boat, the "True Love," wasn't it?
C. K. Dexter Haven : Yes, it was. How did you know?
Elizabeth Imbrie : I was the only photographer whose camera you didn't smash. You were terribly nice about it. You threw it in the ocean.
Macaulay Connor : Oh, one of those.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Yes, I had the strange notion that our honeymoon was our own.
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George Kittredge : [walks in on Tracy and Dexter together] Well, I suppose I should object to this twosome.
C. K. Dexter Haven : That would be most objectionable.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : Of course, Mr. Connor, she's a girl who is generous to a fault.
Tracy Lord : To a fault.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Except to other people's faults.
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Macaulay Connor : [drunk] I bring you greetings and Cinderella's slipper, champagne. Champagne is a great leveleler... leveleler. It makes you my equal.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Not quite.
Macaulay Connor : Well, almost my equal.
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Tracy Lord : You seem quite contemptuous of me all of a sudden.
C. K. Dexter Haven : No Red, not of you, never of you.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : The moon is also a goddess, chaste and virginal.
Tracy Lord : Stop using those foul words.
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Tracy Lord : Dexter, would you mind doing something for me?
C. K. Dexter Haven : Anything. What?
Tracy Lord : Get the heck out of here.
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Macaulay Connor : C.K. Dexter Haven, I would like to talk to you.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Well, let's go in the talking room.
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George Kittredge : [Dexter has butted in] You keep out of this.
C. K. Dexter Haven : You forget I am out of it.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : Hello friends and enemies.
Uncle Willie : Young man, remove yourself!
C. K. Dexter Haven : How are you, sir?
Uncle Willie : I don't know. Get along! Get along!
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Tracy Lord : Only for the moment, I'm not interested in myself.
C. K. Dexter Haven : Not interested in yourself, Red, you're fascinated. You're far and away your favorite person in the world.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : Then you don't know women.
George Kittredge : That's possible.
C. K. Dexter Haven : ...and you're a fool.
George Kittredge : ...and that's quite possibe.
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C. K. Dexter Haven : Class, my... eye.