Quotes from The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

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Reginald Gardiner
Beverly Carlton: How can one man possibly be as clever as I am?
- Reginald Gardiner (as Beverly Carlton) in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

Reginald Gardiner
Beverly Carlton: I have very little time, and so the conversation will be entirely about me and I shall love it.
- Reginald Gardiner (as Beverly Carlton) in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

Reginald Gardiner
Beverly Carlton: Sherry, without launching into mountainous waves of self-pity, how are you?
- Reginald Gardiner (as Beverly Carlton) in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

George Barbier
Dr. E. Bradley: [repeated line, most of the times the doctor appears out of a side door just when Whiteside is at the center of a three ring circus of activity] Mr. Whiteside, are you busy?

Jimmy Durante
Banjo: [lasciviously to Nurse Preen] Come to my room in a half hour and bring some rye bread.

Jimmy Durante
Banjo: [to Nurse Preen] I can feel the hot blood pounding through your varicose veins.

Jimmy Durante
Banjo: Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go, and still have the feeling that you wanted to stay?

Bette Davis
Maggie Cutler: [to Sheridan] Don't you pull any of your tricks on me, because I'm on to every one of them. So lay off. That's my message to you... "Big" Lord Fauntleroy!
- Bette Davis (as Maggie Cutler) in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

Bette Davis
Maggie Cutler: Sherry, the next time you do NOT want to see anybody, just let me know, and I'll usher them right in.
- Bette Davis (as Maggie Cutler) in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

Bette Davis
Maggie Cutler: You know, Sheridan, you have one great advantage over everyone else in the world. You've never had to meet Sheridan Whiteside.
- Bette Davis (as Maggie Cutler) in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

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