Max Plunkett Quotes in Design for Living (1933)

Max Plunkett: Immorality may be fun, but it isn't fun enough to take the place of one hundred percent virtue and three square meals a day.

Max Plunkett: I've come here to speak to you man to man.

Tom Chambers: My favorite type of conversation.

Max Plunkett: I wish to broach a rather delicate subject.

Tom Chambers: Oh, now don't let's be delicate, Mr. Plunkett. Let's be crude and objectionable, both of us. One of the greatest handicaps of civilization, and I may say to progress, is that people speak with ribbons on their tongues. Delicacy, as the philosophers point out, is the banana peel under the feet of truth.

Max Plunkett: Do you love me?

Gilda Farrell: Oh, Max, people should not ask that question on their wedding night. It's either too late or too early.

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.

Gilda Farrell: Now listen, Plunkett, Incorporated. You go to those customers of yours and give 'em a sales talk. Sell them anything you want, but not me. I'm fed up with underwear, cement, linoleum, I'm sick of being a trademark married to a slogan!

Max Plunkett: Gilda...

Gilda Farrell: Don't you tell 'em I've got hiccups. Tell them I've got the advertising blues. The billboard collywobbles! Slogans and sales talks morning, noon, and night, and not one human sound out of you and your whole flock of Egelbaurs!

Max Plunkett: What are you doing here?

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

Max Plunkett: Gilda, I've been your friend for five years.

Gilda Farrell: And I want you to remain my friend for the next fifty years. So please shut up.

Gilda Farrell: Max, have you ever been in love?

Max Plunkett: This is no time to answer that.

Gilda Farrell: Have you ever felt your brain catch fire? And a curious grateful thing go through your body? Down, down to your very toes, and leave you with your ears ringing?

Max Plunkett: That's abnormal.

Gilda Farrell: Well, that's how I felt just before you came in.

Max Plunkett: Yeah? How'd you feel yesterday after your promenade with Tom?

Gilda Farrell: Just the opposite. It started in my toes, and came up, up, up very slowly till my brain caught fire. But the ringing in the ears was the same.