"Alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."
--Eve Arden in "Mildred Pierce"
"Men don't get smarter when they get older. They just lose their hair."
--Claudette Colbert in "The Palm Beach Story"
"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but
they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they
had brotherly love--they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?
The cuckoo clock."
--Orson Welles in "The Third Man"
"I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world against me,
and those are things that no men or women ought to feel."
--Robert Donat in "The 39 Steps"
"I've had hell inside of me, and I can spot it in others."
--Lee Marvin in "The Iceman Cometh"
"You know, Rick, I have many friends in Casablanca. But somehow, just because
you despise me, you're the only one I trust."
--Peter Lorre to Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca"
"What on earth brought you to Casablanca?"
"My health. . .I came to Casablanca for the waters."
"But this is the desert."
"I was misinformed."
--Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca"
"Good and evil are so close they are chained together in the soul."
--Spencer Tracy in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
"He hasn't an enemy in the world. Only his friends hate him."
--Gene Kelly in "Inherit the Wind"
"Badges, we ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show
you no stinkin' badges!"
--Alfonso Bedoya in "The Treasure of Sierra Madre"
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
--Humphrey Bogart in "The Big Sleep"
"I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred."
--Honus Wagner, refusing a $2,000 salary offer
"Show me a good loser in professional sports and I'll show you an idiot. Show me a good
sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade."
--Leo Durocher
"When you win, nothing hurts."
--Joe Namath
"I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings
And I've never been too impressed."
--Bob Dylan
"When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not
the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
--Prince Otto von Bismarck
"If I owned Texas and hell, I would rent out Texas and live in hell."
--General Philip Sheridan
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"
--Patrick Henry, in his speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses, March 23, 1775