Tillie and Gus (1933)
W.C. Fields: Augustus Winterbottom
Quotes
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Tillie Winterbottom : Do you like children?
Augustus Q. Winterbottom : I do if they're properly cooked.
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Augustus Q. Winterbottom : The passing years have slowed you on the draw, my little chickadee.
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Commissioner McLennan : I'm not so sure. This boat was launched in eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
Augustus Q. Winterbottom : So was my wife, but she's still sea-worthy.
Commissioner McLennan : She's probably got barnacles all over her. The boat I mean.
Augustus Q. Winterbottom : She's as solid a brick telephone booth.
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Augustus Q. Winterbottom : I'll bend every effort to win this race, and I come from a long line of effort benders.
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Tom Sheridan : I claim that ferry boat race was the world's greatest gamble.
Augustus Q. Winterbottom : No, don't forget, Lady Godiva put everything she had on a horse.
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Mary Sheridan : You two are angels straight from heaven!
Augustus Q. Winterbottom : [coughs] We detoured slightly on the way.
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Augustus Q. Winterbottom : Poker? Is that the game where one receives five cards, and if there's two alike that's pretty good, but if there's three alike that's much better?