Hear this bit of sarcastic dialogue (a 532KB .WAV file):

"It's astonishing what money can do for people, isn't it Mr. Conner? Not too much, you know, just more than enough. Now take Tracy for example. Never a blow that hasn't been softened for her. Never a blow that won't be softened. As a matter of fact, it even changed her shape, she was a dumpy little thing at one time."-- Dexter.
"Only as it happens I'm not interested in myself for the moment."-- Tracy.
"Not interested in yourself? You're fascinated, Red. You're far and away your favorite person in the world."-- Dexter.

More Memorable Quotations:

• "Oh, we're going to talk about me, are we? Goody."-- Tracy.
• "The prettiest sight in this fine pretty world is the privileged class enjoying its privileges."-- Conner.
• "Eh, this is the voice of doom calling. Your days are numbered to the seventh son of the seventh son." --Conner.
• "My, she was yare." --Tracy.
  "Yare? What's that mean?" --George Kittredge.
  "It means, uh... easy to handle, quick to the helm, fast, bright-- everything a boat should be... until she develops dry rot." --Tracy.
• "To hardly know him is to know him well."-- Dexter.
• "I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. You know one time I secretly wanted to be a writer."-- Dexter.
• "The time to make up your mind about people is never." --Tracy.
• "Nothing ever possibly in the least ever happens here." --Dinah.
• "CK Dexter Haven. Oh, CK Dexter Haven!" --Conner.
• "Doggone it, C.K. Dexter Haven, either I'm gonna sock you or you're gonna sock me."-- Conner.
• "You haven't switched from liquor to dope, have you Dexter?"-- Tracy.
• "I'm going crazy. I'm standing here solidly on my own two hands and going crazy."-- Tracy.
• "With the rich and powerful always a little patience."-- Conner.
• "We all go haywire at times and if we don't, maybe we ought to."-- Liz.