George Curtis Quotes in Design for Living (1933)

George Curtis: I haven't got a clean shirt to my name.

Tom Chambers: Why a clean shirt? What's up? A romance?

George Curtis: I'm not talking pajamas, just a clean shirt.

Tom Chambers: That's one way of meeting the situation. Shipping clerk comes home, finds missus with boarder. He breaks dishes. It's pure burlesque. Then there's another way. Intelligent artist returns unexpectedly, finds treacherous friends, both discuss the pros and cons of the situation in grownup dialogue. High-class comedy, enjoyed by everybody.

George Curtis: There's a third way. I'll kick your teeth out and tear your head off and beat some decency into you!

Tom Chambers: Cheap melodrama. Very dull.

Max Plunkett: Mr. Curtis? What is your annual income, in round figures?

George Curtis: In round figures? Zero.

Max Plunkett: May I ask what you live on?

George Curtis: Nothing. I survive on miracles.

Max Plunkett: What are you doing here?

George Curtis: At the moment, I'm leaving.

Tom Chambers: May I refer you to a letter, sent to you from London, in a similar crisis?

George Curtis: You're a very high class...

Tom Chambers: I could have enclosed some smallpox germs, easily.

George Curtis: But you didn't. Very considerate. Let's drink to that...

[proposing a toast]

George Curtis: To smallpox germs.

Tom Chambers: In Latin, variola caca.