O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Charles Laughton: Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
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Quotes
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Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : It may interest to you to know, my good man, that I and the minutest coin of the realm are total strangers.
Waiter (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : How's that?
Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : I said I was broke!
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Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : Good afternoon, my dear. Aren't you a little lonely window-shopping all by yourself? Wouldn't you prefer to come and play in my backyard?
Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : Sure, I don't mind, if you buy me a drink. How's dear cousin Fanny?
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Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : It isn't my body that's sick. It's my soul. For the first time in my life I've viewed the horrible pit into which I've tumbled: the degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes, wrecked faculties, base motives, that have made up my useless existence!
Susan Goodwin (segment "The Last Leaf") : I wasn't gonna tell you, Soapy, but I got 30 cents a lady give me. I'll buy ya a beer.
Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : It isn't beer that I need. It's hope, faith, the assurance that it's still not too late to pull myself out of the mire - to make a man of myself again, to conquer the evil that's taken possession of me!
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Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : Under the circumstances, I would think a dollar cigar would be just about right.
Horace (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : A whole dollar for one cigar?
Soapy (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") : My dear fellow, upon such occasions as this, one cannot afford to be niggardly.