- Charlie, my friend who speaks but poetry and borrows but money.
- The better to drink but brandy.
— Dix Steele (Humphrey Bogart), Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame)
6 seconds sound clip from the In a Lonely Place movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:42:14.504 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- You'll go when I tell you to go and not before. Remember that.
- You see? He's right. You can't go away. You couldn't do a thing like this to us.
- Lower the bridge, open the gates! Charles Waterman the First is here!
- Charlie, my friend who speaks but poetry and borrows but money.
- The better to drink but brandy.
- Ready to pay homage to an immortal mortal!
- Ah, fair princess, most noble princes, I bring you greetings from an humble peasant.
- Welcome, thespian... There he goes again. He can never figure that step out.
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