Cecil Kellaway Quotes

Dr. Chumley This sister of yours is at the bottom of a conspiracy against you. She's trying to persuade me to lock you up. Today, she had commitment papers drawn up. She has your power of attorney and the key to your safety box, and she brought you here!

Elwood P. Dowd She did all that in one afternoon. That Veta certainly is a whirlwind, isn't she?

Dr. Chumley I'm Dr. Chumley. You're Mrs. Simmons, of course.

Veta Louise Simmons Yes, well, I'm glad to know you, Dr. Chumley. Would you mind asking Judge Gaffney to come back here?

Dr. Chumley Why, certainly, certainly.

Veta Louise Simmons I want to tell him to sue you for $100,000. I don't think $50,000 is enough.

Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet Is, is that Mrs. Frank Cummings? Doesn't she look ghastly, I thought she was dead. I must get a closer look.

The Taxi Driver ...I've been driving this route for 15 years. I've brought them out here to get that stuff, and I've drove them home after they had it. It changes them... On they way out here, they sit back and enjoy the ride. They talk to me, some times we stop and watch the sunset, and look at the birds fly. And sometimes we stop and watch the birds when there ain't no birds. And look at the sunset when its raining. We have a swell time. And I always get a big tip. But afterwards, uh oh! ...They crab, crab, crab. They yell at me. Watch the lights. Watch the brakes, Watch the intersection. They scream at me to hurry. They got no faith in me, or my buggy. Yet, it's the same cab, the same driver. And we're going back over the very same road. It's no fun. And no tips... After this he'll be a perfectly normal human being and you know what stinkers they are.

Myrtle Mae Simmons Oh, mother, people get run over by trucks every day. Why can't something like that happen to Uncle Elwood?

Dr. Chumley So, you gave him a pass, Dr. Sanderson?! Perhaps they neglected to tell you at medical school that a rabbit has large pointed ears!?! Do you know what you've done? You've allowed a psychopathic case to walk out of here and roam around with an overgrown white rabbit! You've laid me open to a ]! I shall have to do something I haven't done for fifteen years! I'll have to go after this man, Dowd, and bring him back! But when I do, Dr. Sanderson, your connection with this institution will have ended — as of that moment!

Dr. Chumley I'm going over to get your brother and bring him back and take him to the sanitarium where he belongs. I want to observe the expression on his face when he talks to this rabbit. He does talk to the rabbit, you say?

Elwood P. Dowd You see, science has overcome time and space. Harvey has overcome not only time and space but also any objections.

Dr. Chumley Fly specks, fly specks! I've been spending my life among fly specks while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 18th and Fairfax!

Dr. Sanderson Dr. Chumley, I'm afraid there's been a serious error —

Dr. Chumley Dr. Sanderson, we don't permit errors in this institution.