Jerry Travers Quotes in Top Hat (1935)

Jerry Travers: In dealing with a girl or horse, one just lets nature take its course.

Jerry Travers: All is fair in love and war, and this is revolution!

Jerry Travers: Are you afraid of thunder?

Dale Tremont: Oh, no. It's just the noise.

Jerry Travers: You know what thunder is, don't you?

Dale Tremont: Of course. It's something about the air.

Jerry Travers: No, no. When a clumsy cloud from here meets a fluffy little cloud from there, he billows towards her. She scurries away and he scuds right up to her. She cries a little and there you have you showers. He comforts her. They spark. That's the lightning. They kiss. Thunder.

[talking about the horse]

Dale Treemont: Who was his dam?

Jerry Travers: What?

Dale Treemont: I said, who was his dam?

Jerry Travers: I don't know miss, he didn't give a...

Dale Tremont: I still feel a little guilty, being here with you while Alberto is out looking for us.

Jerry Travers: Come on! Let's eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we have to face him.

Dale Tremont: What is this strange power you have over horses?

Jerry Travers: [thinks] Horsepower?

Dale Tremont: How could I have ever fallen in love with a man like you!

[Dale slaps Jerry, then storms off]

Jerry Travers: She loves me.

Jerry Travers: I think I feel an attack coming on. There's only one thing that can stop me.

Dale Tremont: Why, you must tell me what it is!

Jerry Travers: My nurses always put their arms around me.

Dale Tremont: I dropped up from the room below where I've been trying to get some sleep!

Jerry Travers: Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't realize I was disturbing you. You see, every once in a while I suddenly find myself... dancing.

Dale Tremont: Oh, I suppose it's some kind of an affliction.

Horace Hardwick: You mean to sit there and tell me that that girl slapped your face in front of all those people for nothing?

Jerry Travers: Well, what would you have done? Sold tickets?

Jerry Travers: [realising why Dale has been behaving so peculiarly] She's been mistaking me for you this whole time.

Madge Hardwick: Well, no wonder she said he was interesting.

Horace Hardwick: Yes, no wonder... I resent that!

Horace Hardwick: What kind of plane?

Jerry Travers: One with wings!

Horace Hardwick: You know how wives are.

Jerry Travers: No I don't. How are they?