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Hands Across the Table Quotes

"A Little Fortune Hunter...A Bankrupt Playboy...Both Out to Marry Money..And Laugh at Love!"

1935 · 1h 20m
68
Audience
68
Audience
11 quotes
Love Shouldn't Be Kept a Secret
Allen Macklyn When a man's in love with a woman, he shouldn't keep it a secret.
Friendship and Job Offers in Perspective
Regi Allen You must have a lot of friends that could give you a job.
Ted Drew That'd be a fine friend who'd give you a job. No friend of mine had better try anything like that on me.
The Drews' Financial Situation Explained
Ted Drew Oh, father's living abroad. He has an amazing ability for borrowing money from practically total strangers. Unfortunately, that ability isn't hereditary.
Regi Allen How could the Drews be broke?
Ted Drew Well, do you remember that thing called ]?
[[w:Wall Street Crash of 1929|the Crash]
Regi Allen Yes.
Ted Drew Well, that was us.
Value of Dreams and Reality
Laura Yeah, and maybe here's that ten million dollars you've been dreaming about.
Regi Allen The way I feel today, I'd settle for a million.
Reflections on Wealth and Poverty
Regi Allen I wonder what the poor people are doing on a day like this.
A Shared Desire for Wealthy Marriages
Regi Allen We're exactly alike.
Ted Drew No, ha ha, oh no, your hair is much prettier than...
Regi Allen We are! We're both trying to do the same thing: marry for money.
Ted Drew Is that what you want to do?
Regi Allen Mm-hmm.
Ted Drew Oh, no, you're too nice for that.
Regi Allen Well, I don't want to spend the rest of my life working in a barber shop.
Ted Drew Well, but to go out in cold blood and deliberately marry somebody for money, that's no good.
Regi Allen Well, what are you doing?
Ted Drew Well... Well, it's different for me: I'm a heel!
Regi Allen Well, did I ever say I wasn't one?
A Discussion on Money and Choices
Regi Allen It was lovely of you, but taking taxis when you haven't any money is a little foolish, isn't it?
Ted Drew Foolish? Why, I had to take a taxi. I couldn't go out in this pouring rain and get my only suit all wet, could I?
Regi Allen Where's your overcoat?
Ted Drew Ohhh, spending a little time in the pawnshop...
Regi Allen Well, why did you pawn your overcoat?
Ted Drew Why, to pay for the taxi, of course. Dope!
Questioning the Nature of Conventions
Regi Allen Well, I'm not that unconventional.
Ted Drew Aw, don't be old-fashioned. What are conventions anyway? Just a bunch of salesmen sitting around and telling stories.
Motherly Comparisons and Goodnight Kisses
Ted Drew You're almost as good at this as my mother was.
Regi Allen Was there anything else your mother did?
Ted Drew Mm-hmm... Before she turned out the lights, she always used to kiss me good night.
Regi Allen I'm only almost as good as your mother was.
Desire and Ambition in Women’s Aspirations
Regi Allen You can't blame me for wanting the things I do. Every woman wants them. Only I say I do.
The Importance of Dreaming for Connection
Regi Allen Do you dream?
Ted Drew No.
Regi Allen You should - you'd meet a better class of people.