Quotes
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Lady Ada Epping : Did you hear a bell?
Lord Basil Epping : Oh, hundreds of them. Yes. Big Ben. Bow Bell. Saint James.
Lady Ada Epping : Here.
Lord Basil Epping : They are?
Lady Ada Epping : No.
Lord Basil Epping : Well, why did you say they were?
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Lord Basil Epping : Oh, how do you do?
Lady Ada Epping : Shhh.
Lord Basil Epping : What's the matter?
Lady Ada Epping : Come along, Basil.
Lord Basil Epping : Going bye-bye?
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Lady Ada Epping : Are you quite sure you didn't forget something?
Lord Basil Epping : Something?
Lady Ada Epping : Somehow you look so - incomplete.
Lord Basil Epping : Incomplete? Ada! Have you ever found me wanting in anything?
Lady Ada Epping : Frankly, I have.
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Lady Ada Epping : It's time for lunch, you know, Basil.
Lord Basil Epping : Oh, hang it all. Very well, Ada. Very well. You know that solids give me indigestion.
Lady Ada Epping : Oh, nonsense.
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Lady Ada Epping : You should be glad to join me for lunch.
Lord Basil Epping : Lunch? Lunch. Why don't you learn to like Sherry?
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Lady Ada Epping : You can't go aboard the plane in those trousers!
Lord Basil Epping : Well, I can't go aboard without them.
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Lady Ada Epping : Basil, I'm ready. You can snap me up now.
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Lady Ada Epping : Basil, don't you think you're going to sneak off before you snap me up. Oh, no. In deed, you're not.
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Lady Ada Epping : Come in here, I want you to help me.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : [disguised as Lord Epping] Help you? In there?
Lady Ada Epping : Of course. I can't do it alone.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Can't do what alone?
Lady Ada Epping : I want you to help me dress.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Oh! Dress?
Lady Ada Epping : Yes, I want to try on the costume for the Masquerade Ball tonight. The back would be nothing but snaps. Come on in and snap me up.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : I'm very sorry, I've got something to do.
Lady Ada Epping : Basil, I want you to help me. Basil, I'll be with you as soon as I slip off this robe.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Yes, do that. Huh?
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Uncle Matt Lindsay : [disguised as Lord Epping] How do you do?
Lord Basil Epping : Oh, how do you do? I say, you're face is familiar.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : So is yours.
[exits]
Lady Ada Epping : [from the other room] Basil, stop talking to yourself.
Lord Basil Epping : Yes, yes. Frightful bad habit I've got myself into. I must watch that.
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Uncle Matt Lindsay : [disguised as Lord Epping] I'll return immediately. You know, I have a few important things to do.
Lady Ada Epping : Such as?
Uncle Matt Lindsay : And that too.
Lady Ada Epping : What?
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Oh, I say, you're rather inquisitive, aren't you? None of your business.
Lady Ada Epping : Oh!
Uncle Matt Lindsay : Double O. Cheerio!
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Lady Ada Epping : Oh! Basil! Oh! Oh.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : [disguised as Lord Epping] I say. What's the matter?
Lady Ada Epping : I'm all out of breath.
Uncle Matt Lindsay : That isn't all you're out of.
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Lord Basil Epping : Who's that man who just left the room?
Lady Ada Epping : Basil, you know perfectly well, there's been no one in this room except *you*.
Lord Basil Epping : Me? Oh, of course, yes, that's who it was. Thank you, Ada. Thank you. Thank you.
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Lady Ada Epping : Oh, I do hope he hasn't swallowed any water. It always makes him ill.
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Lady Ada Epping : [sees Carmelita has fainted] Oh, poor Mrs. Lindsey. I'll call the doctor.
Aunt Della Lindsay : She doesn't need a doctor. She needs a good spanking.