The Bat (1926)

Emily Fitzroy: Miss Cornelia Van Gorder

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Quotes 

• Detective Moletti : How old are you?

  Lizzie Allen : Twenty-two.

  Miss Cornelia Van Gorder : She's forty!

• Miss Cornelia Van Gorder : When you want to fool Auntie, dear, don't bring a gardener with manicured fingernails.

• Miss Cornelia Van Gorder : [the lights go out, calling up the stairs]  LIZZIE!

  Lizzie Allen : [with a newspaper in her mouth, swinging a bear trap at the window. Miss Van Gorder comes in and she stops and takes the paper out of her mouth]  I see by the paper that the Bat's in the neighborhood. I'm setting a bear trap for him.

• Lizzie Allen : This is the happy home of the Heebee-Jeebees. Doors slam loose feet roam around lights go out!

  Miss Cornelia Van Gorder : The lights go out because they're having trouble at the power house.

  Lizzie Allen : For twenty years I've stood by you through Socialism, Theosophism and Rheumatism; but I draw the line at Spookism!

• Miss Cornelia Van Gorder : You'd better go with him.

  Detective Anderson : No use taking unnecessary chances. One is enough to sacrifice!