Man Who Came to Dinner

Maggie Cutler:
Sheri, the next time you do NOT want to see anybody, just let me know and I'll usher them right in.

Sheridan Whiteside:
Banjo, my lad, you're wonderful. I may write a book about you.

Banjo:
Don't bother, I can't read!

Banjo:
Did you ever have the feeling that you wanted to go, and still have the feeling that you wanted to stay?

Beverly Carlton:
I have very little time, and so the conversation will be entirely about me and I shall love it.

Sheridan Whiteside:
Gentlemen, will you all now leave quietly, or must I ask Miss Cutler to pass among you with a baseball bat?

Sheridan Whiteside:
My Great Aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102, and when she had been dead three days, she looked better than you do now.

Nurse Preen:
I am not only walking out on this case, Mr. Whiteside, I am leaving the nursing profession. I became a nurse because all my life, ever since I was a little girl, I was filled with the idea of serving a suffering humanity. After one month with you , Mr. Whiteside, I am going to work in a munitions factory. From now on , anything I can do to help exterminate the human race will fill me with the greatest of pleasure. If Florence Nightingale had ever nursed YOU, Mr. Whiteside, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross!

Maggie Cutler:
You know, Sheridan, you have one great advantage over everyone else in the world. You've never had to meet Sheridan Whiteside.

Sheridan Whiteside:
Strange? She's right out of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Sheridan Whiteside:
Go in and read the life of Florence Nightingale and learn how unfitted you are for your chosen profession.

Sheriden Whiteside:
Nurse, will you take your clammy hands off my chair. You have the touch of a love-starved cobra.

Sheridan Whiteside:
This ageing debutante, Mr Jefferson, I retain in my employ only because she is the sole support of her two headed brother!

If you ever get to New York, try to find me.

Sheridan Whitehouse

Banjo (to nurse):
come to room in 30 minutes and (lecherously) bring some rye bread.