Man of the World (1931)

Lawrence Gray: Frank Reynolds

Quotes 

• Michael Trevor : I suppose Paris means something different for everyone. For you, I imagine it means clothes. To Mr. Reynolds, uh, an interlude. Pause between business deals. To your uncle, I daresay it means, uh, change.

  Mary Kendall : And to you?

  Michael Trevor : I don't know. There was a time when it meant everything: gaiety, glamour, adventure. Now...

  Mary Kendall : And now?

  Michael Trevor : Now it's just a place to live - and eat onion soup at 1:00 in the morning. In America at this hour I suppose it would mean chop suey.

  Frank Reynolds : Give me chop suey every time.

• Michael Trevor : Years ago I used to be a - a reporter. After we put the paper to bed at night, we used to stop in at a little place on the corner for chop suey and, uh...

  Frank Reynolds : Foo young.

  Michael Trevor : Foo young. I hadn't thought of that for years.

  Mary Kendall : I suppose living in Paris makes up for not having a bowl of chop suey.

  Michael Trevor : I suppose so. It's not the chop suey you miss. It's what it stands for. Home. America. Friends. Fellows I used to know. Plain things without sauces.

• Frank Reynolds : I wish you'd blow a whistle from now on when you're fooling. I never can tell.

  Mary Kendall : I never want you to be able to tell.

• Frank Reynolds : Sometimes I think I'd have been better off if I'd spent my summer in Pittsburgh.