Dr. Enoch Downer Quotes in Nothing Sacred (1937)

Dr. Enoch Downer: I'll tell you briefly what I think of newspaper men. The hand of God, reaching down into the mire, couldn't elevate one of them to the depths of degradation!

Dr. Enoch Downer: [Speaking to Wally Cook] You're a newspaperman. I can smell 'em. I've always been able to smell 'em. Excuse me while I open the window?

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Dr. Enoch Downer: Hazel! Hazel!

Hazel Flagg: Yes, Enoch? What is it?

Dr. Enoch Downer: Hazel! Hazel! Run for your life! Run for your life! The hotel is flooded!

Dr. Enoch Downer: Take your stockings off!

Hazel Flagg: You're the doctor, take 'em off yourself.

Dr. Enoch Downer: I brought you something. Raw eggs! Just what you need. the albumin counteracts the alcohol. Suck 'em right down. It'll settle your stomach. Go on! I got a whole dozen.

Hazel Flagg: Is this the way drunks feel?

Dr. Enoch Downer: Hazel, you've got what is known in medicine - as a hangover.

Hazel Flagg: I've got something worst than that. I've got a conscience. Oou!

Dr. Enoch Downer: Keep on suckin' that egg and your conscience will go away.

Dr. Enoch Downer: From New York, huh? You don't happen to know of a newspaper called the "Morning Star"?

Wally Cook: You have the honor, Dr. Downer, of addressing that newspaper's most gifted representative.

Dr. Enoch Downer: Moses in the mountains! You're from the "Morning Star"?

Dr. Enoch Downer: You can stop given yourself the heirs of a dying swan. According to this last analysis I made, you ain't a-going to die. Unless you get run over or something.

Hazel Flagg: What?

Dr. Enoch Downer: You heard me. I don't like to chew my cabbage twice.

Hazel Flagg: You mean, you mean I-I-I'm not going to die?

Dr. Enoch Downer: You're fitter than a fiddle!