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Quotes from You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

23 quotes
W.C. Fields
[to Charlie McCarthy]
Larson E. Whipsnade: I shall send over a couple of pet beavers to romp with you.
- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

W.C. Fields
[to Charlie McCarthy]
Larson E. Whipsnade: Quiet, you termit flophouse!
- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

W.C. Fields
[to Charlie McCarthy]
Larson E. Whipsnade: You must come down with me - after the show - to the lumberyard... and ride piggyback on the buzzsaw.
- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

W.C. Fields
Edgar Bergen: I have hopes of being your son-in-law.
Larson E. Whipsnade: With you, hope springs eternal.
- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Edgar Bergen
Edgar Bergen: I've got a good mind to...
Charlie McCarthy: Why don't you use it?
- Edgar Bergen (as Edgar Bergen / Charlie McCarthy) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Thurston Hall
Roger Bel: Father, father, I'm going to get married!
Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie: Why?
- Thurston Hall (as Mr. Archibald Bel-Goodie) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

John Arledge
Phineas Whipsnade: You give me a pain in the neck. There's a guy that's gonna get a pile of dough the day he gets married and he's just beggin; you to take it.
Victoria Whipsnade : Well, I'm not interested!
Phineas Whipsnade: Oh! One sister and she has to be a half wit!
- John Arledge (as Phineas Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

W.C. Fields
Larson E. Whipsnade: As my dear old grandfather Litvak said (just before they swung the trap), he said "You can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump."
- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

W.C. Fields
Larson E. Whipsnade: I'm taking on the personality of a Mexican jumping bean. First the contortionist gets rheumatism. Then the sword-swallower gets tonsilitis. Hope nothing happens to that fan dancer... not 'til I get rid of this cold, anyway.
- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

W.C. Fields
Larson E. Whipsnade: Never trust a ventriloquist or a barber.
- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)