We're in the Money (1935)

Hugh Herbert: Homer Bronson

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• Claire LeClaire : Listen, slug.

  Lawyer Homer Bronson : You mean me? Me?

  Claire LeClaire : Yeah. You chiselin' shyster, I mean you. Quite tryin' to give Mazie the ol' stall-a-roo.

• Lawyer Homer Bronson : These subpoenas must be served immediately. You know, the Senate has already passed a law banning all breach of promise suits and it becomes effective very soon.

  Ginger Stewart : Yes, but we're not talking about subpoenies. We're talking about quitting!

  Lawyer Homer Bronson : I'll give you fifty dollars a piece to serve these subpoenies.

  Dixie Tilton : Make it a hundred. A hundred for each summons.

  Lawyer Homer Bronson : I can't do it.

  Dixie Tilton : Why can't you do it? It's a half a million dollar case. Why can't you go four hundred?

  Lawyer Homer Bronson : I can't afford it!

  Dixie Tilton : Well, then make it five hundred.

  Lawyer Homer Bronson : Now you're cheating yourself. Now you're cheating yourself.

  Dixie Tilton : All right. All right. We'll settle on a thousand. A thousand for the whole mess!

  Lawyer Homer Bronson : Well, that's fine! That's fine.

• Lawyer Homer Bronson : It gives me pleasure to send forth two young ladies with such noble ambitions.

  Ginger Stewart : I've got the nobleness. She's got the ambition.

  Dixie Tilton : For a thousand dollars we'll make a sap out of any man!

• Lawyer Homer Bronson : A boat! I need a boat! Boat! Boat! My kingdom for a boat!

• Lawyer Homer Bronson : Have you any other profession outside of being Mr. Courtney's front?

  Singer Phil Logan : Oh, I sing a bit on the side.

  Lawyer Homer Bronson : On the side? Which side?

• Lawyer Homer Bronson : Do you still want it to go on the record that you deny that you do not know this young lady? Or do you or don't you or do you? Answer me yes or no. Answer me yes of no.

• Lawyer Homer Bronson : It's an outrage! You made a promise and you broke it and you gotta keep it broken. There!

• Judge : Gentlemen. Gentlemen. It seems to me that Mr. Courtney is doing the right and proper thing.

  Lawyer Homer Bronson : The right and proper thing, your honor? This is a breach of promise suit! Without a breach it doesn't look very promising to me!

• Lawyer Homer Bronson : When I first went into the law business, I went up like a skyrocket! And now, what?

  Dixie Tilton : You came down like the stick.

• Claire LeClaire : Why you double-crossing stool pigeon! You'll go to the hoosegow for this.

  Lawyer Homer Bronson : You'll go, I mean, I'll go, you'll go.