Top Hat (1935)
Eric Blore: Bates
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Quotes
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Horace Hardwick : Mr. Travers is in trouble. He has practically put his foot right into a hornets' nest.
Bates : But hornets' nests grow on trees, sir.
Horace Hardwick : Never mind that. We have got to do something.
Bates : What about rubbing it with butter, sir?
Horace Hardwick : You blasted fool, you can't rub a girl with butter!
Bates : My sister got into a hornets' nest and we rubbed HER with butter, sir!
Horace Hardwick : That's the wrong treatment, you should've used mud - Never mind that!
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Bates : Sic transit gloria mundi. "Thus passes the glory of the world."
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Bates : [to Jerry] Allow us to introduce ourselves, sir. We are Bates.
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Bates : We are Bates.