Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury Quotes in At the Circus (1939)

Whitcomb: Pardon me, Madame, but here are the seating arrangements for your final approval.

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: Oh, no, Whitcomb. Judge Chinner will sit on my left hand and you

[turning to look at Loophole]

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: will sit on my right hand.

J. Cheever Loophole: How will you eat? Through a tube?

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: [a giraffe licks her neck] Not here, monsieur. Not here.

J. Cheever Loophole: Oh, I can't help it. It's just the animal in me.

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: We must have regard for certain conventions.

J. Cheever Loophole: One guy isn't enough. She's gotta have a convention.

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: Well! What is the meaning of this?

J. Cheever Loophole: Keep your sheet on, I'm looking for old lady Dukesbury.

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: I am Mrs. Dukesbury.

J. Cheever Loophole: Snook'ems!

[Rushes to her arms]

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: Oh, good gracious! I don't know you.

J. Cheever Loophole: You mean you've, you've forgotten?

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: Well, I...

J. Cheever Loophole: I know, you have forgotten. Those June nights on the Riviera, where we sat 'neath the shimmering skies! Moonlight bathing in the Mediterranean! We were young, gay, reckless! The night I drank champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have held more, but you were wearing inner soles! Oh, Hildegarde!

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: My name is Suzanna!

J. Cheever Loophole: Let's not quibble!

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: Now, be sure; when the Normandy docks tomorrow in New York, the Jardinet and his entire orchestra come directly here.

J. Cheever Loophole: This bedroom will be awfully crowded.

J. Cheever Loophole: Suzanna, I-eh-I hate to bring up money matters in the bedroom, but, eh...

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: But, what!

J. Cheever Loophole: Well, eh, just write me out a check for ten thousand dollars and everybody will be happy including the gorilla. And, I do mean you.

Jardinet: I cross the ocean! I am called a dope ring! I race on a train, when I get here, what do I find? Animals. Animals!

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: Animals?

J. Cheever Loophole: Animals! Mrs. Dukesbury's friends are my friends!

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: Now, I know you will all be thrilled. Jardinet's opening number will be Beethoven's somber, spiritual first movement of his second concerto, album three, opus four...

J. Cheever Loophole: And number five on the Hit Parade.

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: You, monster. You're responsible this disgrace!

J. Cheever Loophole: That's gratitude for you. Most men get their sweethearts one ring for an engagement. I got you three rings!

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: A circus! I'll be a laughing stock.

Mrs. Suzanna Dukesbury: Get me out of this cannon! Get me out of this cannon! Please, get me out of this cannon!