Quotes from The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
20 quotes
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Sheridan Whiteside:
And now, will you all now leave quietly, or must I ask Miss Cutler to pass among you with a baseball bat?
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Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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Sheridan Whiteside:
Banjo, my lad, you're wonderful. I may write a book about you.
Banjo: Don't bother, I can't read!
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Jimmy Durante
(as Banjo)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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Sheridan Whiteside:
Get your fish-hooks off me!
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Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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Sheridan Whiteside:
Go in and read the life of Florence Nightingale and learn how unfitted you are for your chosen profession.
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Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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Jimmy Durante
(as Banjo)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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Sheridan Whiteside:
I simply will not sit down to dinner with midwestern barbarians, I think too highly of my digestive system.
Maggie Cutler: Harry Clarke is one of your oldest friends. Sheridan Whiteside: My stomach is an older one. Maggie Cutler: And Mrs. Stanley is president of the women's club. Sheridan Whiteside: I wouldn't care if she was the whole cabinet.
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Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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Sheridan Whiteside:
Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?
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Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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Sheridan Whiteside:
My great aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102, and when she had been dead three days, she looked better than you do now.
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Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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Sheridan Whiteside:
Strange? She's right out of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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Sheridan Whiteside:
This ageing debutante, Mr. Jefferson, I retain in my employ only because she is the sole support of her two-headed brother!
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Monty Woolley
(as Sheridan Whiteside)
in
The Man Who Came to Dinner
(1942)
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