“Are you taking my hat hostage?”
“Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.”
“I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.”
“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”
“In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.”
“To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.”