Breakfast for Two (1937)

Herbert Marshall: Jonathan Blair

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• Butch : Will it be breakfast for two, sir?

  Valentine Ransome : No, no. Not unless your Master is a heavy eater.

  Jonathan Blair : Yes, it's breakfast for two.

• Jonathan Blair : Nice work. I must have bagged that in Tony's bar.

• Jonathan Blair : What's the matter with you now? Are you trying to learn the deaf and dumb sign language or something?

  Butch : No, sir. It's my circulation, sir. It's a little bit below par.

• Jonathan Blair : You know, you're awfully good to me. Why did you go to all that trouble? Bringing me home last night?

  Valentine Ransome : Oh, I don't know. Blame it on the night.

• Jonathan Blair : I've been known to propose to three women in one evening and follow through with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Did I, em, did I propose to you?

  Valentine Ransome : Oh, I don't remember.

• Jonathan Blair : On the roof.

  Valentine Ransome : Stargazing.

  Jonathan Blair : And I said I want to pull a few down and put them in your hair.

  Valentine Ransome : That was sweet.

  Jonathan Blair : And then we danced and I said...

  Valentine Ransome : Moonbeam.

  Jonathan Blair : That's right! Moonbeam. I said you danced like a moonbeam. And your skin was enchanted to the roses you were wearing.

  Valentine Ransome : They were camellias.

  Jonathan Blair : Camellias. That's right. They were camellias. And I said they suited you because they were smooth and heavy and rare. And I said great things could happen on a night like this.

  Valentine Ransome : They do! Don't they Jonathan.

  Jonathan Blair : Great things! Planets are born. Napoleons are conquered. Women are won.

  Valentine Ransome : And I said I wanted to kiss the policemen who raided the nightclub and threw us together.

  Jonathan Blair : Planets. Napoleons. Women. Huh, funny little things a man can say when he's in his cups.

• Valentine Ransome : Always grease a burn.

  Jonathan Blair : And butter is thicker than water.

• Valentine Ransome : You've had your life line buttered for you since the day you were born.

  Jonathan Blair : I guess you're right. See any hope for me?

  Valentine Ransome : Maybe - with a few calluses. It'll take an awful jolt. You've been too lucky, Mister.

  Jonathan Blair : I wasn't lucky till last night.

• Carol Wallace : Oh! You know, she's not a bad little number. Who is she?

  Jonathan Blair : Just a friend of drunken sailors. She piloted me back to port last night.

• Valentine Ransome : Oh, don't be a baby.

  Jonathan Blair : It's fun being a baby. Now.

• Jonathan Blair : The play was successful but the audience died.

• Jonathan Blair : You're the type of woman that wants to wear the pants. All right, Mister, wear them! Trip over them! And break your neck!

• Jonathan Blair : That seems to call for the first drink of the day. To my little Sarah Bernhardt.

  Carol Wallace : Oh, I want to be a famous actress.

• Jonathan Blair : Stop nagging. You're being feminine and I don't like it.

  Butch : The female is the most maligned species, sir. She often displays a fortitude far beyond that of the male.

  Jonathan Blair : And don't begin that again, either.

  Butch : No, sir. I was just thinking about my Great Aunt Hester, sir. Did you know, sir, she was the first woman to ever swore the side-saddle and ride a horse as gentlemen do, sir? Of course, she was roundly stoned. But, it was worth it, sir. She afterwards became the Assistant to the Master of the Hounds, sir. And what is more interesting, it might amuse you to know, sir, that the man who threw the largest stone, became the Master of Hounds, sir.

• Butch : [reading the Board of Directors report]  Period. The next is underscored, sir. For the fourth consecutive time comma the meeting was presided over by the First Vice President. And this is *double* underscored, sir. In the absence of the President comma Mr. Thomason Blair period.

  Jonathan Blair : I consider myself balled out - and in writing.

• [repeated line] 

  Justice of the Peace : Joe Nathan.

  Jonathan Blair : Jonathan.

• Jonathan Blair : Well, that settles it. There's only one thing to do to her!

  Butch : Oh, sir, I hope I - I do hope - what are you going to do, sir?

  Jonathan Blair : Plenty!

• Jonathan Blair : No Blair ever played with loaded dice, Miss Jesse James.

  [Valentine slaps Jonathan] 

  Jonathan Blair : Now, are you taking advantage of the fact that you're a lady, presumably?

  [Valentine slaps him again] 

  Jonathan Blair : Too bad you're not a man.

  Valentine Ransome : Don't let that stop you! I can take care of myself.

• Jonathan Blair : It is evident, the Blair Steamship Line cannot be operated from the viewpoint of a feminine whim.

• Jonathan Blair : I suppose you don't know anything about anything.

• Jonathan Blair : Now, Valentine, why all this build up for a kiss? When all you have to do...

  Valentine Ransome : Cut that out!

  Jonathan Blair : Is ask for it.

• Valentine Ransome : Don't you dare touch me!

  Jonathan Blair : Dear, you're behaving like a school girl.

  Valentine Ransome : Get away! I'll call the police.

  Jonathan Blair : Oh, so like a woman - all crazy about uniforms.

• Jonathan Blair : You took advantage of the fact that I was swacked! Unless you want to pretend that you were swacked and I slipped it over on you.

  Valentine Ransome : No. I don't think you could ever slip anything over on me.

• Jonathan Blair : Am I never going to get rid of you?

  Valentine Ransome : Not if you keep following me around.

• Jonathan Blair : Now, come, darling. There comes a time to stop bantering.

• Jonathan Blair : Call up the butcher, the baker, the cocktail maker. They're about to be paid!