Toddy (looking at a glass of White Wine)
The last time I saw a specimen like this they had to shoot the horse.
Played by Robert Preston 
Victor/Victoria (1982) · 29 quotes
Victor/Victoria (1982) · 29 quotes
Most-quoted character in Victor/Victoria (1982): in 15 of its 29 quotes
Most scenes with: Victoria (4), Norma (2), Labisse (2)
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
More lines from Toddy
7 quotes Toddy Toddy God, there've been times I'd have given my soul to be able to cry like that.
Toddy There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold.
Toddy I know what you're thinking... and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Toddy [to the dancers on stage after they drop him]
You bitches.
Toddy You were marvelous! And I never want to see any of you again!
Toddy Thank you. Thank you, thank you, you're most kind. In fact, you're every kind.
Scenes with Toddy
7 scenes
In spite of what you think, Monsieur Labisse, there are professions where practice *does* make perfect. [she hits a high note, causing Labisse's wine glass to shatter, and leaves angrily]
What in hell was that?
Toddy B flat.
If you ever come back, I will have you thrown out.
Toddy Don't make it sound like such a threat. Being thrown out of a place like this is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
The bourguignon was just a little tough.
Waiter Maybe the way you are eating your jaws are getting tired.
Toddy Speaking of overworked jaws, why don't you treat yours to a sabbatical and fetch me a wine list?
Toddy This? The last time I saw a specimen like this, they had to shoot the horse!
Waiter How lucky can you get? In one evening a Rockefeller... and a Groucho Marx.
Toddy Oh, they didn't shoot a real horse... just a costume with two waiters in it.
Waiter I shall think of a sharp retort while I am getting your roast chicken.
Toddy It's a wise man who knows when to throw in the towel.
Waiter And it is a moron who gives advice to a horse's arse.
Toddy You know it's very strange. At the club I thought you were just about at the end of your rope.
Oh, I was. I am! This is the first decent meal I've had in almost four days.
Toddy And you can't pay for it?
Caseé!
Toddy And you want me to have dinner with you?
I want you to have the best damn dinner you ever had. Have two! I started off with the roast chicken and I segued to boeuf bourguignon, it's anybody's guess what I could end up with.
Toddy Oh, I'd guess about thirty days.
If all goes well, I expect to leave here poor, but sated. I have a (lowers voice to a whisper) a bug in my purse. At the appropriate moment it goes in my salad.
Toddy It'll never work.
A bug in my salad?
Toddy In a place like this, it would be an event if there wasn't a bug in your salad.
What about a... cockroach?
Toddy A cockroach!
Shhh! Bigger than your thumb!
Toddy Ew, God!
Men have Adam's apples.
Toddy So do some women.
Name one.
Toddy Nana Lanu.
Nana Lanu, who's she?
Toddy The last woman I slept with.
When was that?
Toddy The night before the morning I decided to become a homosexual.
I just love Frenchmen.
Toddy Oh, so do I!
I think that the right woman could reform you.
Toddy You know, I think that the right woman could reform you, too.
Toddy You took the words right out of my mouth.
