Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – He Ran All The Way, 1951 (dir. John Berry)
Mrs. Robey: If you were a man, you’d be out looking for a job.
Nick Robey: If you were a man, I’d kick your teeth in.
Movie Quote of the Day – Detour, 1945 (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
Vera: That’s the greatest cock-and-bull story I ever heard. So he fell out of his car? Say, who do you think you’re talking to? A hick? Listen mister, I’ve been around, and I know a wrong guy when I see one. What did you do? Kiss him with a wrench?
Movie Quote of the Day – Side Street, 1950 (dir. Anthony Mann)
Harriet Sinton: It was real sweet of you to buy that bottle, hun. You got real nice manners, Joe. I like nice manners. I like you, hun. I like you a lot. “My love is like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June. My love is like a melody that’s sweetly played in tune.” You like poetry, hun? That’s Robert Burns. “A Red, Red Rose.” George hated poetry. He hit me once when I recited Robert Burns. He hit me right in the eye. George was no good.
Joe Norson: George?
Harriet Sinton: My fiancé. My ex-fiancé. George had no manners at all.
Movie Quote of the Day – Suddenly, 1954 (dir. Lewis Allen)
Ellen Benson: Don’t you have any feelings?
John Baron: No, they were taken outta me by experts.
Movie Quote of the Day – Panic in the Streets, 1950 (dir. Elia Kazan)
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton ‘Clint’ Reed M.D.: You know, my mother always told me if you looked deep enough in anybody… you’d always find some good, but I don’t know.
Capt. Tom Warren: With apologies to your mother, that’s the second mistake she made.
Lt. Cmdr. Clinton ‘Clint’ Reed M.D.: I should have seen that one coming.
Movie Quote of the Day – Impact, 1949 (dir. Arthur Lubin)
Walter Williams: In this world, you turn the other cheek, and you get hit with a lug wrench.
Movie Quote of the Day – Kansas City Confidential, 1952 (dir. Phil Karlson)
Joe Rolfe: Hey Tony, I know a sure cure for a nosebleed: a cold knife in the middle of the back.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Big Knife, 1955 (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Dixie Evans: I don’t care if I do see a snake. I’m sure I’d much rather see a snake than a Hollywood producer.
Movie Quote of the Day – Sorry, Wrong Number, 1948 (dir. Anatole Litvak)
Leona: I like you, that’s a different thing, too.
Henry: Like me, like you. Come on, we’re both acting like a couple of kids playing cat and mouse. Besides, what does a dame like you want with a guy like me?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946 (dir. Tay Garnett)
Cora Smith: It’s too bad Nick took the car.
Frank Chambers: Even if it was here we couldn’t take it, unless we’d want to spend the night in jail. Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing a man’s car, that’s larceny.
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