Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

Paul Muni: Eddie Kagle, Judge Frederick Parker

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Quotes 

• Eddie Kagle : Take a powder.

  Albert, Parker's Servant : Take a powder sir? Oh, you mean scram.

• Eddie Kagle : How long you been down here?

  Nick : Since time immemorial.

  Eddie Kagle : The way you talk, you must've had a good education.

  Nick : A most liberal one.

  Eddie Kagle : I only went through the third grade.

  Nick : I went through the whole gamut of learning. I know everything.

  Eddie Kagle : Stuck on yourself, huh? What's your name?

  Nick : Well, I have a number of aliases. I have a long record under the name of Mephistopheles.

  Eddie Kagle : Greek, huh?

  Nick : Well, there are some who claim I'm more of one nation than another, but that's not true, Eddie. I'm of all nations, I play no favorites.

  Eddie Kagle : You look like a con man. Look, Mephistopheles...

  Nick : Call me Nick.

  Eddie Kagle : You married?

  Nick : Millions of women have adored me.

  Eddie Kagle : Quite a guy with the ladies, huh?

  Nick : I'm a fascinating fellow.

  Eddie Kagle : Look, mug, playing around with dames is dynamite.

  Nick : But most delightful dynamite, Eddie! Live fully while you may, and reckon not the cost. Deny yourself nothing - flame and blaze like a torch, and toss the fire about you! Omar Khayam said it: 'I'll make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into the dust descend!'

• Barbara Foster : All I know is wherever you're going, I want to go too.

  Eddie Kagle : You don't belong where I'm going honey.

• [last lines] 

  Eddie Kagle : Well... so long. Funny, I never thought people's faces looked so good. Lots of other things I never noticed before. If I'd only known the first trip around what I know now...

  Nick : When I get you down below I'm going to take special pains with you. I'm going to introduce you to agonies undreamed of.

  Eddie Kagle : I don't think you'll be so tough.

  Nick : No?

  Eddie Kagle : No. Cause you know why? Cause you made a sap of yourself. You don't want your boys to know that. No big shot wants to look like a sucker before his own mob. Now if I was made a trustee...

  Nick : This is sheer unblushing blackmail!

  Eddie Kagle : You oughta know, brother. You oughta know.

• Eddie Kagle : Wipe that smile off your mug!

• Eddie Kagle : [shoveling coal into the furnaces]  How hot do they want it down here?

  Shoveler : Never gets hot enough to suit the boss. You think this is bad, wait till they stick you in them flame pits way down below.

  Eddie Kagle : You mean we ain't at bottom now?

  Shoveler : There ain't no bottom in this joint.

• Eddie Kagle : [arriving in Hell]  Florida never smelled like this... like rotten eggs...

  Chemist : Precisely, young man. Rotten eggs. The unpleasant odor is caused by H2SO4, hydrogen sulfuric acid, the most common compound of hydrogen and sulphur. Am I right? I poisoned my wife with a sulphur compound; my young wife. She was unfaithful. I was a chemist.

  Eddie Kagle : What do you mean... 'was?'

  Chemist : Before they hanged me.