Paul Frees: John Beresford Tipton

Quotes 

• Michael Anthony : [Anthony enters the Tipton study, where he discovers Tipton seated in a high-backed chair, reading a large poetry book]  You sent for me, sir?

  John Beresford Tipton : Mike, do you think Cupid is blind?

  Michael Anthony : [With a wry smile]  He hasn't come close enough for me to see, sir.

  John Beresford Tipton : [Tipton chuckles and then quotes from the book from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream]  "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

  Michael Anthony : [Questioning the author who wrote this statement]  Shakespeare?

  John Beresford Tipton : Shakespeare. He was often right. I wonder if he is this time.

  [Tipton hands over envelope to Anthony] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Our next millionaire, Mike.

  [Anthony accepts the envelope and starts to leave] 

  John Beresford Tipton : Ah, wait.

  [Tipton reads from Shakespeare's Life and Death of King John] 

  John Beresford Tipton : "Make haste, swift messenger. The better foot before."

  [Tipton chuckles. Anthony turns and departs]