Breakfast for Two (1937)

Barbara Stanwyck: Valentine Ransome

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Quotes 

• Valentine Ransome : Four score and twenty years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Carol Wallace : She knows the Constitution!

• Butch : Mr. Jonathan brought liquor into the family during Prohibition.

  Valentine Ransome : Sort of too bad, don't you think?

  Butch : Yes, Miss. He does become a trifle, if I may say so, impetuous.

  Valentine Ransome : Yes, if that's what you call trying to buy a popcorn wagon at three in the morning.

• Butch : Will it be breakfast for two, sir?

  Valentine Ransome : No, no. Not unless your Master is a heavy eater.

  Jonathan Blair : Yes, it's breakfast for two.

• Valentine Ransome : Delighted. We must have met at Newport. Or, are you one of the South Hampton PeeWees?

• Jonathan Blair : You know, you're awfully good to me. Why did you go to all that trouble? Bringing me home last night?

  Valentine Ransome : Oh, I don't know. Blame it on the night.

• Jonathan Blair : I've been known to propose to three women in one evening and follow through with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Did I, em, did I propose to you?

  Valentine Ransome : Oh, I don't remember.

• Jonathan Blair : On the roof.

  Valentine Ransome : Stargazing.

  Jonathan Blair : And I said I want to pull a few down and put them in your hair.

  Valentine Ransome : That was sweet.

  Jonathan Blair : And then we danced and I said...

  Valentine Ransome : Moonbeam.

  Jonathan Blair : That's right! Moonbeam. I said you danced like a moonbeam. And your skin was enchanted to the roses you were wearing.

  Valentine Ransome : They were camellias.

  Jonathan Blair : Camellias. That's right. They were camellias. And I said they suited you because they were smooth and heavy and rare. And I said great things could happen on a night like this.

  Valentine Ransome : They do! Don't they Jonathan.

  Jonathan Blair : Great things! Planets are born. Napoleons are conquered. Women are won.

  Valentine Ransome : And I said I wanted to kiss the policemen who raided the nightclub and threw us together.

  Jonathan Blair : Planets. Napoleons. Women. Huh, funny little things a man can say when he's in his cups.

• Valentine Ransome : Always grease a burn.

  Jonathan Blair : And butter is thicker than water.

• Valentine Ransome : You've had your life line buttered for you since the day you were born.

  Jonathan Blair : I guess you're right. See any hope for me?

  Valentine Ransome : Maybe - with a few calluses. It'll take an awful jolt. You've been too lucky, Mister.

  Jonathan Blair : I wasn't lucky till last night.

• Valentine Ransome : Oh, don't be a baby.

  Jonathan Blair : It's fun being a baby. Now.

• Valentine Ransome : I guess I'm just a softie for strays.

• Sam Ransome : I'd like to know where you were all night.

  Valentine Ransome : Well, it was my last night in New York and I did a little pub crawling.

• Sam Ransome : Do you realize that in 45 minutes we got to get on a train?

  Valentine Ransome : Really? Oh, I thought we only had a half an hour.

• Sam Ransome : Who cares about a crazy bronco...

  Valentine Ransome : I've seen you turn many a crazy bronco into a fine horse, Sam.

  Sam Ransome : Yeah, but, human flesh hasn't got the sense of horse flesh.

  Valentine Ransome : Sometimes they both need a whip to put some sense into them. First you have to slip a bit in his mouth and make 'em like it.

• Valentine Ransome : When you break in a horse, you should be the one to tie on the feedbag. Otherwise, he might get attached to somebody else.

• Valentine Ransome : The race goes to the blonde lady with ambition.

• Sam Ransome : Why, honey, I've seen you thrown off a horse ten times and then get right back up and get on again.

  Valentine Ransome : Well, it was my horse.

• Valentine Ransome : I'm not walking out on *my* winning streak.

• Mr. Meggs : You can't meddle in somebody else's life.

  Valentine Ransome : I always have.

  Mr. Meggs : And burned your fingers.

  Valentine Ransome : And liked it.

• Jonathan Blair : No Blair ever played with loaded dice, Miss Jesse James.

  [Valentine slaps Jonathan] 

  Jonathan Blair : Now, are you taking advantage of the fact that you're a lady, presumably?

  [Valentine slaps him again] 

  Jonathan Blair : Too bad you're not a man.

  Valentine Ransome : Don't let that stop you! I can take care of myself.

• Jonathan Blair : Now, Valentine, why all this build up for a kiss? When all you have to do...

  Valentine Ransome : Cut that out!

  Jonathan Blair : Is ask for it.

• Valentine Ransome : Don't you dare touch me!

  Jonathan Blair : Dear, you're behaving like a school girl.

  Valentine Ransome : Get away! I'll call the police.

  Jonathan Blair : Oh, so like a woman - all crazy about uniforms.

• Jonathan Blair : You took advantage of the fact that I was swacked! Unless you want to pretend that you were swacked and I slipped it over on you.

  Valentine Ransome : No. I don't think you could ever slip anything over on me.

• Jonathan Blair : Am I never going to get rid of you?

  Valentine Ransome : Not if you keep following me around.

• Valentine Ransome : Maybe there are some things about him a banker wouldn't know...