Top Hat (1935)

Edward Everett Horton: Horace Hardwick

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• Horace Hardwick : You mean to sit there and tell me that that girl slapped your face in front of all those people for nothing?

  Jerry Travers : Well, what would you have done? Sold tickets?

• Horace Hardwick : Mr. Travers is in trouble. He has practically put his foot right into a hornets' nest.

  Bates : But hornets' nests grow on trees, sir.

  Horace Hardwick : Never mind that. We have got to do something.

  Bates : What about rubbing it with butter, sir?

  Horace Hardwick : You blasted fool, you can't rub a girl with butter!

  Bates : My sister got into a hornets' nest and we rubbed HER with butter, sir!

  Horace Hardwick : That's the wrong treatment, you should've used mud - Never mind that!

• Horace Hardwick : What kind of plane?

  Jerry Travers : One with wings!

• Horace Hardwick : You know how wives are.

  Jerry Travers : No I don't. How are they?

• Jerry Travers : [realising why Dale has been behaving so peculiarly]  She's been mistaking me for you this whole time.

  Madge Hardwick : Well, no wonder she said he was interesting.

  Horace Hardwick : Yes, no wonder... I resent that!

• Horace Hardwick : [emerges from hiding]  There! You see? I was right! Of all the scheming, brazen creatures, trying to pretend she'd met you in Paris! Do you realize she's deliberately trying to trap you? Now, what are you going to do about it?

  Jerry Travers : [nonchalantly]  Marry her.

  Horace Hardwick : [alarmed]  Jerry! This is no time for you to be funny!

  Jerry Travers : All right then, you be funny. I'm going down and ask her to marry me right now.

  Horace Hardwick : [stammers]  Wh-uh-Jerry! Please, wait! Now-now-now-now, before you make a complete fool of yourself, uh- promise me that you won't ask her, until I find out from Madge more about her past.

  Jerry Travers : All right, you find out all about her past, and I'll go down and plan her future.

  Horace Hardwick : Uh, remember, that's a promise!

  Jerry Travers : [leaving]  All right, it's a promise!

• Horace Hardwick : [Jerry being questioned for the reason why he was slapped out of the blue by Dale in the lobby]  You sure you didn't forget yourself with her in the park?

  Jerry Travers : Positive. If I ever forgot myself with that girl I'd remember it.