Personal Property (1937)

Reginald Owen: Claude Dabney

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• Claude Dabney : Miss Briggs, how many years have you been making what for convenience I call my tea?

  Miss Briggs : What's wrong with it this time, Mr. Dabney?

  Claude Dabney : Why nothing... except that it tastes absolutely filthy.

• Claude Dabney : [First lines]  I think I'm justified in saying that the Dabney line of women's hosiery and undergarments is second...

  Miss Briggs : Second?

  Claude Dabney : Second to none! - Underline second. - Underline none. - In the United Kingdom or the Empire, for that matter. If sales are falling - comma - and they are falling - comma - underline are - it is to you, as Sales Manager, that we look for an explanation.

• Claude Dabney : And don't be surprised, Mother, if Crystal seems a little outspoken. She doesn't mean it. She's American. And, well, you know what Americans are.

• Mrs. Burns : What is your line, Mr. Dabney? It must be very interesting, I'm sure.

  Claude Dabney : Me? Oh. I'm in ladies underwear.

  Mrs. Burns : What?

  Cosgrove Dabney : Well, we're both in ladies underwear.

  Mrs. Burns : Really? How very odd.

• Claude Dabney : If I go, I may not come back.

  Crystal Wetherby : And if you don't go, I may not want you to come back.

• Claude Dabney : Balderdash! Balderdash!

• Raymond Dabney aka Ferguson : Heartbreaking farewell of two brothers. Passionate embrace in rose garden. English reserve broken by last minute emotions.

  Claude Dabney : Balderdash! Balderdash!

• Claude Dabney : What could you say, what could you...

  Raymond Dabney aka Ferguson : Well, I could easily tell her a few lies about you. I could say that you only pretended to be well off. That, uh, that you're nothing but a cheap fortune hunter. That you only wanted her money - that you don't have a penny of your own.

  Claude Dabney : Do you insinuate that Crystal was marrying me for my money?

  Raymond Dabney aka Ferguson : Well, what else would she marry you for?