Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Charles Ruggles: Egbert Floud

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Quotes 

• Egbert Floud : I can be pushed just so fur and no futher.

• Egbert Floud : I ain't gonna have no English valet.

  Effie Floud : Oh, yes you are.

  Egbert Floud : No, I ain't! I got about as much use for one of them as a pig has for side pockets.

• Egbert Floud : [pouring champagne]  What you want is... is... is... some more of this imprisoned laughter of the pleasant maids of France.

• Egbert Floud : You sit down and tell me now what's the matter. Come on.

  Prunella Judson : Oh, I don't see how they can go on having a good time... when maybe he's... oh, you know...

  Egbert Floud : He? Who? What are you talking about?

  Prunella Judson : Colonel Ruggles. I think he jumped in the river.

  Egbert Floud : No. Why should he wanna do that?

  Prunella Judson : Oh, on account of a woman. She treated him something awful.

  Egbert Floud : Who told you that?

  Prunella Judson : I was there.

• [Egbert is wearing a loud, checked suit] 

  Effie Floud : Take off those clothes.

  Egbert Floud : No, sir, I won't do it! Effie, we might just as well have a showdown right here and now. What did Lincoln say at Gettysburg? Yeah, you don't know - well, I'll tell you. He said that all men are created equal. He didn't just mean a few men - he meant ALL men. And that includes me: I'm created equal.

  Effie Floud : Equal to what?

  Egbert Floud : Equal... equal to WHAT? Well, equal to... uh...

  Egbert Floud : [to Ma Pettingill]  ... She changed the subject on me.

  Egbert Floud : [to Effie, recovering his train of thought]  Men are created equal to women! That's why you have no right to order me around the way you do. Abe Lincoln said so.

  Effie Floud : He also said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time and All of the people some of the time." But you can't fool me, Egbert Floud, ANY of the time... you striped bass!

• Egbert Floud : You aint no geranium yerself!