Casanova Brown (1944)

Frank Morgan: J.J. Ferris

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• J.J. Ferris : If the poor can get any satisfaction out of being proud, well, why not? It costs nothing.

• J.J. Ferris : Leave it with me and rest assured I will handle it with all the tact and delicacy of a crooked diplomat.

• Casanova Brown : I think you got exactly what you deserved for being a shameless, unmitigated scoundrel.

  J.J. Ferris : I suppose so. But it was a bitter disappointment just the same.

• J.J. Ferris : [inside the Church]  Where's the sucker?

  Mrs. Ferris : Oh, John! I do wish you wouldn't refer to him in that way! Supposing someone heard. What would they think?

  J.J. Ferris : [unfazed]  Where's the sucker?

• Casanova Brown : [dreamily]  Her eyes were like burned, charred embers in a field of snow.

  J.J. Ferris : Big face, eh?

• J.J. Ferris : [discussing his wife]  I used to dream of outliving her. Just sit it out, as it were. But along came Madge. And then her sister. And now that odious child.

• J.J. Ferris : [after blithly telling his daughter the groom isn't coming]  What do you all say we catch a movie tonight?

• Mr. Drury : Is this the same fellow that was marrying all the rest of them?

  J.J. Ferris : He's in a nuptial rut.

• J.J. Ferris : What was she like?

  Casanova Brown : Have you ever seen the sun come up at dawn?

  J.J. Ferris : I have. It nauseated me.