Dames (1934)

Hugh Herbert: Ezra

Quotes 

• Ezra Ounce : Are you a moral man, Mr. Hemingway?

  Horace P. Hemingway : Well, I like to think so.

  Ezra Ounce : Well, don't you know?

  Horace P. Hemingway : Oh, yes, yes, I'm a moral man.

• Horace P. Hemingway : Mathilda and Barbara send their love to you.

  Ezra Ounce : Barbara sends her love to me?

  Horace P. Hemingway : Yes, Ezra.

  Ezra Ounce : Why should she send her love to me? She's never seen me.

  Horace P. Hemingway : Well, she's seen your picture.

  Ezra Ounce : Well, then, maybe she's sending her love to my picture.

• Ezra Ounce : He told me the tire would run 10,000 miles. What happened? It only ran 9,998 miles. It's dishonest! False representation, that's what it is. I don't want a new tire. Sounds eccentric but I can afford to be eccentric. I've got $35 million. You haven't got $35 million. You can't afford to be eccentric. What are you shaking your head for?

  Horace P. Hemingway : Because, I can't afford to be eccentric, Ezra

  Ezra Ounce : That's what I said.

  Horace P. Hemingway : Well, that's what I mean.

  Ezra Ounce : Well, why didn't you say so?

• Ezra Ounce : New York City reeks with sin, especially the hotels. I wouldn't go near any of them.

• Ezra Ounce : If I find your moral life is nothing more than a snare and a delusion, I'll cut you off like a ripe banana.

• Ezra Ounce : Have you ever purposely sinned?

  Horace P. Hemingway : No, not much, on purpose.

• Jimmy Higgens : I've got a musical show that's a honey. It's called "Sweet and Hot".

  Ezra Ounce : Get out.

  Jimmy Higgens : I got the show, you the dough.

  Ezra Ounce : Get out!

  Jimmy Higgens : Now wait a minute. You don't know me, I don't know you. You don't like me, I don't like you. But, this is strictly a business proposition - and you stand to make at least $25,000.

• Ezra Ounce : I shall take a second 10 million to form the O.F. for the E. of A.M.

  Horace P. Hemingway : The what?

  Ezra Ounce : The Ounce Foundation for the Elevation of American Morals.

  Horace P. Hemingway : You can elevate a lot of morals for $10 million, Ezra.

• Ezra Ounce : Good night, Horace. Sleep well so your loins may be girded for the battle.

• Ezra Ounce : We all know what a task lies before us. You know what a task lies before you. You know, you know, and - you know.

• Ezra Ounce : The nut I refer to is going to be a hard nut to crack.

• Ezra Ounce : I've heard many a wind in many a pipe, but never a sound like that.

• Ezra Ounce : Bulger? Are your loins girded for the battle?

  Bulger - Ounce's Bodyguard : The loins is ready to roar.

• [everyone has been hitting the Dr. Silver's Golden Elixir] 

  Ezra Ounce : Very beautiful.

  Mathilda : Very, very beautiful.

  Horace P. Hemingway : Oh, very, very, *very* beautiful.