Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Mary Boland: Effie Floud

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Quotes 

• Egbert Floud : I ain't gonna have no English valet.

  Effie Floud : Oh, yes you are.

  Egbert Floud : No, I ain't! I got about as much use for one of them as a pig has for side pockets.

• Lisette - French Maid : Burned, Madame?

  Effie Floud : Taken out and burned. and then burn the ashes.

• [Egbert is wearing a loud, checked suit] 

  Effie Floud : Take off those clothes.

  Egbert Floud : No, sir, I won't do it! Effie, we might just as well have a showdown right here and now. What did Lincoln say at Gettysburg? Yeah, you don't know - well, I'll tell you. He said that all men are created equal. He didn't just mean a few men - he meant ALL men. And that includes me: I'm created equal.

  Effie Floud : Equal to what?

  Egbert Floud : Equal... equal to WHAT? Well, equal to... uh...

  Egbert Floud : [to Ma Pettingill]  ... She changed the subject on me.

  Egbert Floud : [to Effie, recovering his train of thought]  Men are created equal to women! That's why you have no right to order me around the way you do. Abe Lincoln said so.

  Effie Floud : He also said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time and All of the people some of the time." But you can't fool me, Egbert Floud, ANY of the time... you striped bass!