Café Metropole (1937)

Charles Winninger: Joseph Ridgeway

Quotes 

• Joseph Ridgeway : I have but one rule about titles. If they're charming, they're fakes. If they're genuine, they're stupid.

  Laura Ridgeway : There he goes again.

• Monsieur Victor Lobard : With your permission, Mr. Ridgeway, his highness, Prince Paneiev, requests the honor of dancing with Miss Laura. It's a royal prerogative, sir. Quite without impertinence.

  Joseph Ridgeway : That may be true but...

  Laura Ridgeway : Tell his highness, I'd be delighted.

  Monsieur Victor Lobard : Thank you, Miss Laura.

  Margaret Ridgeway : Sounds like a royal pickup to me.

• Joseph Ridgeway : The only genuine title that I ever met was that baron that married Frank Crawford's daughter. And he was the dumbest, stupidest, most boring dope that it's ever been my misfortune to shake hands with.

  Margaret Ridgeway : Laura, I consider his remarks unpatriotic.

• Joseph Ridgeway : I tell you, the man is an international adventurer.

  Laura Ridgeway : International my foot. Why, don't you suppose I've been out with enough Princeton men to recognize one when I see him?

  Joseph Ridgeway : Princeton. PRINCETON! It's impossible - that's my school.

  Laura Ridgeway : I'll try not to hold that against him.

• Laura Ridgeway : You know what you are?

  Joseph Ridgeway : Yes, I do. I'm an American Babbitt who loves his daughter and doesn't want to see her get hurt.

• Joseph Ridgeway : By all civilized standards, this dance should've been finished three quarters of an hour ago. What do you think it is, a marathon?

  Margaret Ridgeway : Well, I feel certain he isn't holding her out there by main force.

• Joseph Ridgeway : Is this fellow a Russian too?

  Monsieur Victor Lobard : Oh yes sir, sir.

  Margaret Ridgeway : Then why isn't he driving a taxi?

• Alexis : Anyway, I've had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Ridgeway. Long ago in Russia I have heard of him very highly.

  Joseph Ridgeway : Yeah? You don't say so.

  Alexis : Yes, yes. Yes - perhaps you do not realize what a famous man you are.

  Margaret Ridgeway : Oh, he's not exactly unaware of it.

• Laura Ridgeway : I love you too, darling, but you're a snob.

  Joseph Ridgeway : Who's a slob?

  Laura Ridgeway : I didn't say slob - I said snob.

• Joseph Ridgeway : Get my coat, get my hat, get my sister.

  Page Boy : Yes, sir.

• Joseph Ridgeway : Maggie, let me tell you something. If you were a man, I'd punch you right I the puss.

• Margaret Ridgeway : Well, I guess they got us at last, Smarty Pants.

  Joseph Ridgeway : Shut up!

  First Gendarme on Train : Smarty Pants? Oh, so you are Smarty Pants.