Quotes from Daniel Davis movies and TV shows

Niles: You know, the next time you give your clothes away, why don't you just stay in them?

C.C.: I feel like I have died and gone to heaven.
Niles: I have that dream, too, but you go in the other direction.

Mr. Sheffield: Can you keep a secret?
Niles: Well, I'm good until I meet the next person.

Niles: Good things come to those who wait, unless they wait too long and they slip through their namby-pamby fingers.

C.C.: What's Maxwell doing in London?
Niles: One would hope, Miss Fine.

Niles: Miss Fine and Miss Babcock walking arm in arm. Isn't that one of the biblical signs of the apocalypse?

Sylvia: Do I smell banana fritters with fresh fruit compote?
Niles: No.
Sylvia: Could I?

Max: Oh Niles, what is it this time? Your job, your weight, no future?
Niles: Well, Sir, I was just wondering why I have no social life but you cleared that right up for me.

Niles: Oh, what are you doing here, the sun is up.

C.C.: I'll never get to the airport on time.
Niles: That's true, sir, she needs at least two people on her broom to use the Express Lane.

Fran: By the way, Niles, what is your family name?
Niles: It's just Niles... Like Cher.

C.C.: I wouldn't be caught dead in that dress.
Niles: You'd have to be dead six months to fit in it.

C.C.: This isn't a typical night.
Niles: Yes, you're not home alone sitting on your foot massager watching "Sisters."

C.C.: Me and Max have rented a cottage right by the lake.
Niles: How convenient, Sir, should you choose to drown yourself.

C.C.: You are a pathetic excuse for a man.
Niles: Ditto.

C.C.: I couldn't put a foot out of bed this morning.
Niles: Did someone put a rock on your coffin again?

C.C.: I find it very unseemly of Maxwell to start dating again. Isn't the customary period of mourning 10 years?
Niles: Die. Let's find out.

C.C.: What is this un-natural obsession Maxwell has with his children? I can count the number of days I spent with my father on one hand.
Niles: Seven?

C.C.: Maxwell, I'm an important part of this team.
Niles: That's true sir, that couch would be floating all around if she weren't here to weigh it down.

Brighton Sheffield: Niles, this steak is tough.
Niles: So is life. Then you die.

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