It's Love I'm After (1937)

Eric Blore: Digges

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• Gracie Kane : I know something you don't know, I know something you don't know.

  Basil Underwood : She knows something we don't know.

  Digges : It can't be very important or we'd know it.

• Digges : [Regarding the aviary]  If I weren't a gentleman's gentlemen I could be such a cad's cad!

  [Birds loudly chirp] 

  Digges : Shut up!

• Basil Underwood : She doesn't love me anymore. I wonder why.

  Digges : Oh, women are changeable creatures, sir.

• Basil Underwood : Down in the street below, a great carnival of people... happy together. And up here, one man, miserably alone.

  Digges : I'm here, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Oh, you're always here, Digges.

  Digges : Yes, I thank you, sir.

• Basil Underwood : Digges, why is it no one loves me?

  Digges : But I love you, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Don't confuse the issue. Am I really such a bad fellow as she thinks?

  Digges : Oh, please, sir. Don't let's go into that now.

  Basil Underwood : There's loyalty for you.

• Digges : Yes sir, we get minus 200 for Philadelphia, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Philadelphia?

  Digges : The alderman's wife, sir.

  Basil Underwood : You can't count that. She didn't complain.

  Digges : Yes, but the alderman did, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Oh, all right. Have it your own way. Philadelphia, minus 20.

  Digges : Sorry, sir - Philadelphia, minus 200.

• Digges : All in all, I'm afraid we add up as a bit of bad odor, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Yes, I'm afraid we do. What a thing for a man to wake up and realize.

• Basil Underwood : Basil Underwood, you're a skunk.

  Digges : Oh, don't take it to heart, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Don't defend me, Digges. After all, what am I? Just the greatest actor in the world.

  Digges : Yes, but there's hope sir, even for us.

• Digges : Well, it's the season for making resolutions and turning over a new leaf, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Huh, I'd have to turn over the whole public library.

• Basil Underwood : You hear that, Digges? We're going to be married.

  Digges : What, again, sir?

  Basil Underwood : What do you mean, again? We've never been married before... have we sweet?

  Digges : I mean planning again, sir. At least a dozen times this past year.

• Basil Underwood : I resent the implication, Digges, as if we don't know our own minds.

  Digges : It's just that you've approached the precipice so often, sir.

  Joyce Arden : I resent that precipice, Digges.

• Digges : Oh, sir. I have the gravest misgivings about all this, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Nonsense, Digges. It's a golden opportunity. It'll be my moral salvation. I want 500 points for this Digges.

  Digges : Oh, when I think of poor Miss Joyce in there unexpectingly

  [sic] 

  Digges : getting ready, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Well, she'll love me for it.

  Digges : I hope you can make her see it in that light, sir.

• Digges : Couldn't you marry her first, sir, and demonstrate your reformation afterwards?

  Basil Underwood : No, Digges. I'm determined to come to her a cleansed man. I will not have the woman I love married to what you somewhat indelicately refer to as a bad odor.

• Digges : Are we going to tell her, sir?

  Basil Underwood : Well, the arrangement might be a little difficult to understand from the female point of view.

  Digges : Exactly, sir.

  Basil Underwood : I think in that case, I will spring it as a happy surprise.

• Basil Underwood : We're going to descend on them like a pestilence in the night. Play up to me, Digges.

  Digges : You mean to say that I'm to be a pestilence too, sir?

  Basil Underwood : You're the perfect type for the part.

• William West : Get out!

  Basil Underwood : Did you hear that Digges?

  Digges : Distinctly, sir. I'll get the bags.

  Basil Underwood : Just a moment.

• Digges : [Coming into the breakfast table with all other seated around it]  My master said that I'm to inform you that he feels like a kipper...

  William West : Oh, so he feels like a fish, eh?

• Digges : I suppose, then, eggs will have to suffice. Eggs and a bottle of Scotch.

  Aunt Ella : For breakfast?

  Digges : And one for lunch... No kippers! Hah!

• Digges : And one thing more. Mr. Underwood gives no autographs on Sundays.

• Digges : [Speaking loudly as Basil comes down the stairs]  Mr. Underwood, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Yes, Digges. What is it?

  Digges : No kippers!

  Basil Underwood : What?

  Digges : [Louder, so it drowns out the whole breakfast room]  No kippers, sir.

  Basil Underwood : What, no kippers?

  Digges : [Following Basil into the breakfast room]  No, sir.

  Basil Underwood : Disgraceful.

• Digges : Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names can never hurt us, sir.

• Digges : [On the phone to Joyce]  Oh, Miss Joyce. You've got to help him. He's in a terrible jam.

  Joyce Arden : I hope he's wallowing in lovely, gooey jam up to his donkey head.

• Basil Underwood : [to Marcia]  I cannot abide a woman with morals. Get thee to a nunnery. Go!

  Digges : [Following Basil up the stairs]  Ah, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1.