Tillie and Gus (1933)

W.C. Fields: Augustus Winterbottom

Quotes 

• Tillie Winterbottom : Do you like children?

  Augustus Q. Winterbottom : I do if they're properly cooked.

• Augustus Q. Winterbottom : The passing years have slowed you on the draw, my little chickadee.

• 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.

• Augustus Q. Winterbottom : I'll bend every effort to win this race, and I come from a long line of effort benders.

• 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.

• Mary Sheridan : You two are angels straight from heaven!

  Augustus Q. Winterbottom : [coughs]  We detoured slightly on the way.

• 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?