Two for the Road (1967)

William Daniels: Howard Manchester

Quotes 

• Ruth Manchester : [after Howard knocks the luggage off the top of the car by driving into a low beam carport]  Daddy?

  Howard Manchester : Yes, Ruthie?

  Ruth Manchester : Did you do that on purpose?

  Howard Manchester : No, Ruthie, I didn't. No, I did not. No, Ruthie. No.

• Mark Wallace : [to Joanna]  Come on, baby.

  Howard Manchester : Well that, if I may say so, is a very revealing usage. Calling her baby, at this point, shows you're prepared to do her thinking and her deciding for her. Now I warn you solemnly, Marcus. You're denying Joanna the right to be her own paradoxical self.

  Mark Wallace : Howard, you're the largest pocket of untapped natural gas known to man.

• Cathy Manchester : Ruthie, that hurt Mommy! Howard, did you see what she did? She pinched me!

  Howard Manchester : Yes, well, she probably thinks you're excluding her, Honey Bunch.

• Howard Manchester : Hand me that guidebook, Sugar.

• Cathy Manchester : Oh, Sweetheart, I hate to say it, but we should've left the car under the sun shelter, Howie.

  Howard Manchester : I know, Sugarbush.

• Howard Manchester : All right, now when we're ready, it's Joanna in the hot seat - and Catherine the Great, the co-driver.

• Mark Wallace : [looking for the car key that Ruthie threw out the car window]  Don't you have a spare?

  Howard Manchester : If I use the spare, we don't have a spare.