I Take This Woman (1940)

Spencer Tracy: Karl Decker

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• Dr. Karl Decker : She's like something you see in a jeweler's window. A single, flawless gem on a piece of black velvet. You take one long look and then you pass on.

• Dr. Karl Decker : You know, it's very hard to be useful and unhappy at the same time.

• Dr. Karl Decker : Nothing that happens is unfair.

• Georgi Gragore : What man? There is no man!

  Dr. Karl Decker : Oh, yes, there is. There always is.

• Nurse on Ship : You sent for me doctor?

  Dr. Karl Decker : Yes, mild hysteria.

• Dr. Karl Decker : I'm sorry. Did I frighten you?

  Georgi Gragore : Everything frightens me! That skyline frightens me. I never wanted to see it again.

• Dr. Karl Decker : Alcoholic hangovers are much easier to cure. Emotional benders are the tough ones.

• Dr. Karl Decker : The thing for you to do is to face everyone and keep busy. Keep so busy that you fall exhausted into bed at night. Did you ever do any work?

  Georgi Gragore : I had an imitation job.

  Dr. Karl Decker : Imitation job?

  Georgi Gragore : I was social secretary to a very rich woman and sort of a clothes horse. You know, I advertised gowns by wearing them.

• Dr. Karl Decker : I spend my vacations hunting microbes.

• Dr. Karl Decker : Why did you look me up?

  Georgi Gragore : I told you. I had nothing to do.

  Dr. Karl Decker : Craziest thing I ever heard.

• Dr. Karl Decker : Come on, we'll have to hurry.

  Georgi Gragore : I have a taxi waiting outside.

  Dr. Karl Decker : All this time? With the meter going?

  Georgi Gragore : Of course.

  Dr. Karl Decker : Well, you haven't got all your buttons, have you?

• Dr. Karl Decker : Georgi, we did everything in such a hurry that I didn't have time to come a courtin'. They tell me its a lot of fun to bring flowers to a girl and make love to her. And I want to make love to you. I'm not gonna be done out of all that.

• Dr. Karl Decker : Georgi, just let me love you. That'll be enough for a mug like me. Don't worry, I don't want a front seat. Just let me in out of the rain.

• Dr. Karl Decker : Do you know that I'm going to parade you tonight and make all of New York jealous. And then I'm going to show you off to the rest of the world and throw the whole of masculine North America into a conniption fit of envy.

  Georgi Gragore : Well, I'm sure I'm not going to introduce you to one single attractive girl.

  Dr. Karl Decker : I cornered the market in attractiveness - all in one bundle.

• Dr. Karl Decker : Georgi, it's not fair to make fun of a humble admirer.

  Georgi Gragore : Humble? Why, you've been preening around here like a pheasant.

• Dr. Karl Decker : [opening a menu]  Oh, the whole things in French. That means you pay more for your hangover.

• Madame Marcesca : That's the secret of selling: tell a woman what she wants and get away before her husband has a chance to say no.

  Dr. Karl Decker : I couldn't sell cheese to a rat.

  Madame Marcesca : Leave the rats to me.

• Dr. Karl Decker : That woman could sell a fur coat to a polar bear.

  Bill Rodgers : At a furious price!

• Dr. Karl Decker : She has the constitution of a crocodile.

• Phil Mayberry : You've got to be patient, Decker. After all, hypochondria is a disease.

  Dr. Karl Decker : Yeah. It only seems to be epidemic among the wealthy, though.

  Phil Mayberry : Well, I see, I'll have to let you look after the serious cases, while I attend to the more lucrative ones.

• Dr. Karl Decker : Did you sleep well?

  Georgi Gragore : Pretty well. And you?

  Dr. Karl Decker : Oh, I don't know. I can't seem to used to these fashionable noises up here. I miss the soothing lullaby of Murphy beating up his wife and Mrs. Dugan calling to her young.

• Georgi Gragore : Dr. Duveen, could I borrow my husband for a honeymoon?

  Dr. Duveen : Well, of course you can. Splendid!

  Dr. Karl Decker : Say, what is this?

  Georgi Gragore : Well, of course, if the idea doesn't appeal to you.

  Dr. Karl Decker : Appeal to me? I'm groggy. I'm bouncing off the ropes. I'm slap-happy. If anybody'd ask me for my right arm now, I'd wrap it in cellophane and give it to 'em.

• Georgi Gragore : Wasn't that fun?

  Dr. Karl Decker : Yeah, yeah. It was kinda silly, though.

  Georgi Gragore : You know, will you do me one more a favor?

  Dr. Karl Decker : Sure. What?

  Georgi Gragore : Learn the rhumba.

• Phil Mayberry : I drink to what is dead.

  Dr. Karl Decker : I drink to my wife.