Paul Frees: John Beresford Tipton

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the library to discover Tipton seated in a high backed chair, wearing a smoking jacket with a cane in his lap. A book is in Tipton's lap.Only Tipton's hands are visible to the viewers]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Look at them, Mike.

  [Points his cane at a bookshelf] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Shakespeare, Milton, Plato, Dostoevsky, the poets and philosophers whose wit and wisdom enrich our lives. If we would only listen to them. Why does man have to learn the hard way?

  Michael Anthony : I don't know, Mr. Tipton.

  John Beresford Tipton : It's wasteful! Wasteful, Mike.

  [Chuckles] 

  John Beresford Tipton : That's what I've been accused of myself when I give away a million dollars.

  [Tipton hands an envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Here's the man for it this time.