Mexican Spitfire (1939)

Leon Errol: Uncle Matt Lindsay, Lord Basil Epping

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• Uncle Matt Lindsay : The bloom is off the peach.

• Carmelita Lindsay : [Having signed the paperwork at a "Divorce Bureau" in Mexico]  Hey, is this divorce any good in New York?

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : What do you care? Even *marriages* ain't any good in New York!

• Aunt Della Lindsay : When I think of Dennis jilting a lovely girl like Elizabeth to marry that little Mexican wildcat, I can hardly contain myself.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Well, do the best you can, Sweetie Pie.

• Aunt Della Lindsay : Elizabeth Price can trace her family back to the Pilgrims. She's real Plymouth Rock stock!

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Oh! Related to the Rhode Island Reds, huh.

• Aunt Della Lindsay : Talk to her? You ought to get rid of her. That's what you ought to do. I'd give her a piece of my mind!

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : You better hang on to what you got left, honey.

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : [disguised as Lord Epping]  You ought to watch out, old boy, there's nothing worse than having a *tosspot* for a wife!

• Aunt Della Lindsay : Travel broadens one so, don't you think, Lord Epping.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : [disguised as Lord Epping]  Yes. You must have traveled a great deal.

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : If they get me in the corner, you will get me out of it.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Me?

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Yes.

  Carmelita Lindsay : How?

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Oh, do anything. I don't care.

  Carmelita Lindsay : Oh, I like that.

• Lord Basil Epping : Oh, I mean to say, this is getting a bit thick!

• Carmelita Lindsay : I'm not good for Dennis. I'm just a big gall stone around his neck.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Gall stone?

  Carmelita Lindsay : Sure.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Millstone.

• Lord Basil Epping : Bring me another one of those. What was it?

  Waiter in Mexico : Sherry and egg, Sir.

  Lord Basil Epping : Egg! No, no, no. No, no, no. Bring me one of those - those, Ticklers.

  Waiter in Mexico : Ah, Tequila! ¡Sí Señor!

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : Why don't you make up with Dennis?

  Carmelita Lindsay : Why don't you mind my own business?

• Uncle Matt Lindsay : Maybe you're right. If you're through with him.

  Carmelita Lindsay : I yam. Forever. We're all washed down.

  Uncle Matt Lindsay : Washed up!

  Carmelita Lindsay : Up or down, we're still washed!