Beverly Carlton: How can one man possibly be as clever as I am?


--Reginald Gardiner (as Beverly Carlton) in The Man Who Came to Dinner

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


--Reginald Gardiner (as Beverly Carlton) in The Man Who Came to Dinner

Beverly Carlton: Sherry, without launching into mountainous waves of self-pity, how are you?


--Reginald Gardiner (as Beverly Carlton) in The Man Who Came to Dinner

Hilary Ames: Relieve the drain, relieve the strain.


--Reginald Gardiner (as Hilary Ames) in Cluny Brown

John R. Pierce: [to Timothy] You're a very lucky man. You've made money while you were asleep.


--Reginald Gardiner (as John R. Pierce) in The Doctor Takes a Wife

John Sloan: Having babies to boost your circulation takes time.


--Reginald Gardiner (as John Sloan) in Christmas in Connecticut

Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy: You know MacLean?
Scrounger Harris: Yeah, I've met him, but I don't like him.
Blimp Lebec: You don't like him? You should know how I don't like him!
Brian MacLean: And why do you say that? You know, I've always been very happy to see you. Look at Tiny. He never used to like me. Now he hates me.
[to Willie]
Brian MacLean: Willie!
Willie: Hello! Happy landings!
Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy: [to Blimp and Scrounger] Oh, come on and sit down. Come on, come on here.
[to Willie]
Francis Patrick 'Tiny' Murphy: Listen, Willie, we want four black coffees and some cake.
Scrounger Harris: [to Willie] Make mine tea and charge it!


--Reginald Gardiner (as Scrounger Harris) in Captains of the Clouds

Dudley Beecham: Liz, don't waste time with him. You have to decide what you're going to say to the old man.
John Sloan: What old man?
Elizabeth Lane: Oh, it's Yardley. He's sending me a sailor for Christmas.
John Sloan: Oh, how nice... A sailor? Really, Elizabeth!


--Reginald Gardiner (as John Sloan) in Christmas in Connecticut

King Louis XVI: I am not going to run! What do you say, brother?
Comte de Provence: I say run and you'll loose your crown!
Comte d'Artois: And I say stay and you'll loose your head!


--Reginald Gardiner (as Comte d'Artois) in Marie Antoinette