Top Hat (1935)

Eric Blore: Bates

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Quotes 

• Horace Hardwick : Mr. Travers is in trouble. He has practically put his foot right into a hornets' nest.

  Bates : But hornets' nests grow on trees, sir.

  Horace Hardwick : Never mind that. We have got to do something.

  Bates : What about rubbing it with butter, sir?

  Horace Hardwick : You blasted fool, you can't rub a girl with butter!

  Bates : My sister got into a hornets' nest and we rubbed HER with butter, sir!

  Horace Hardwick : That's the wrong treatment, you should've used mud - Never mind that!

• Bates : Sic transit gloria mundi. "Thus passes the glory of the world."

• Bates : [to Jerry]  Allow us to introduce ourselves, sir. We are Bates.

• Bates : We are Bates.