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Movie Quote of the Day – Stranger on the Third Floor, 1940 (dir. Boris Ingster)
Michael Ward: What if she’s right – he didn’t do it, and they give him the chair?
Martin: Suppose they do? What difference does it make? There’s too many people in the world anyway.
Michael Ward: What’s the use of talking to you? You think everything’s a joke.
Martin: My son, it is. If it weren’t, life wouldn’t be worth living.
Movie Quote of the Day – Three Strangers, 1946 (dir. Jean Negulesco)
Johnny West: Don’t ever get mixed up with a Chinese goddess, Icey. That’s the worst thing that can happen, the very worst.
Movie Quote of the Day – Flamingo Road, 1949 (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Fielding Carlisle: Isn’t it about time he asked you to marry him?
Lane Bellamy: Did you?
Fielding Carlisle: That was different.
Lane Bellamy: Yes, it was, Field. I was in love with you.
Movie Quote of the Day – Decoy, 1946 (dir. Jack Bernhard)
Sgt. Joe Portugal: Lotta coppers chasing shadows in the streets tonight.
Movie Quote of the Day – Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, 1956 (dir. Fritz Lang)
Dolly Moore: This guy’s got a lot of class.
Terry Larue: Yeah? If he’s got so much class, what’s he doin’ with you?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Locket, 1946 (dir. John Brahm)
Nancy: How could I ever have liked you, Norman – arrogant, suspicious, neurotic. . .
Norman: It isn’t neurotic to be jealous.
Nancy: It’s worse than neurotic to be jealous of a dead man.
Movie Quote of the Day – Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, 1948 (dir. Norman Foster)
Bill: I didn’t want to be alone anymore. I don’t want to be alone now. If we go back, if we stick together, if we face it. . .do think that maybe somewhere somebody’ll listen, somebody’ll say it wasn’t our fault? Not yours anyway.
Movie Quote of the Day – Ruthless, 1947 (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
Horace Woodruff Vendig: When a man is ambitious for the kind of success that I used to dream about, it’s inevitable that a lot of people are going to be hurt. He doesn’t know that. He’s too busy fighting. Then he reaches the top, whatever the top may be for him. Then he has a chance to stop, think. That’s when the pain of all those people comes back to you. He starts to feel. That’s when he starts to be a little afraid.
Movie Quote of the Day – Railroaded!, 1947 (dir. Anthony Mann)
Duke: Hey look, until we’re out of this jam, I want you to lay off that bottle. You gotta use your head.
Clara: I got sense enough to know that.
Movie Quote of the Day – Christmas Holiday, 1944 (dir. Robert Siodmak)
Robert Manette: You know, sometimes when I listen to it I feel that, that there’s nothing that man is capable of that I can’t do. Then it stops and it’s over.
Abigail Martin: Oh, not for me. When I hear good music I feel, well I feel as though something had been added to my life that wasn’t there before.
Robert Manette: I’d like that. Think you can teach me?
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