Wagstaffe Quotes in Damn the Defiant! (1962)

Lieut. Scott-Padget: What is your name?

Wagstaffe: Wagstaffe. Percival Pallister Wagstaffe.

Lieut. Scott-Padget: Wagstaffe? Are you by any chance related to Admiral Wagstaffe?

Wagstaffe: Remotely, yes. He's a distant cousin.

Lieut. Scott-Padget: But he would speak for you?

Wagstaffe: Well, I'm quite sure that he...

Lieut. Scott-Padget: Admiral Wagstaffe - how well do you know him?

Wagstaffe: Intimately.

Lieut. Scott-Padget: You visit his house?

Wagstaffe: Oh, yes, often.

Lieut. Scott-Padget: You claim that, do you? Do you also claim to be a mad-man? For to have constantly visited someone who does not exist?

Wagstaffe: Not exist! Would I not know my own cousin?

Lieut. Scott-Padget: I invented him a moment ago.