The Bachelor Father (1931)
David Torrence: Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald
Quotes
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Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : You're the most self-indulgent man I ever knew.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : I devote my life to pleasing myself. Why shouldn't I? No family. No relatives, thank Heaven.
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : Well, you might have settled down and had children.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Children! O-ho-ho! I've had 'em! Plenty of 'em!
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : What? You?
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Why not? No great feat. Anybody can do it. Even you have two sons.
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : Well, I like that! Basil, where are your children?
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Oh, dotted about the various points of the compass.
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : Well I must say, you're very casual about them.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : Well, they're nothing to me. Never seen 'em!
Dr. Frank 'Mac' MacDonald : Why don't you send for your children? Make a home for them.
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : What? Fill this place with a lot of noisy ill-bred brats?
[he chuckles]
Sir Basil Algernon 'Chief' Winterton : You've got a quaint sense of humour, Frank.