The Key (1934)

William Powell: Captain Bill Tennant

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• Homer, Tennant's Aide : When shall I expect you, sir?

  Capt. Bill Tennant : Oh, eventually.

• Capt. Bill Tennant : [sadly, to Norah]  I suppose it's only in storybooks that there's a path back to yesterday.

• Capt. Bill Tennant : [Speaking to General C.O. Furlong, played by Halliwell Hobbes]  You get the paunch and the promotions. I get the fun and the medals. And we both die and get the same funeral.

• Capt. Bill Tennant : [His aide, Homer, has been dozing]  You know, in Africa, the tsetse flies used to bite him and go sound to sleep.

• Capt. Bill Tennant : It wasn't that I forgot. I simply couldn't mortgage my tomorrows.