Category Archives: Movie Quote of the Day
Movie Quote of the Day – Dishonored Lady, 1947 (dir. Robert Stevenson)
Cop: I got a rule about women: if they ain’t breakin’ the law, leave ’em alone.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Great Flamarion, 1945 (dir. Anthony Mann)
Al Wallace: Honey, no matter what you do, you’re the only dame for me. You’re a bad habit I can’t cure, even if I wanted to.
Movie Quote of the Day – Undercurrent, 1946 (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
Alan: Is that why Ann, am I trying to please you?
Ann: Whether you’re trying or not, you are.
Movie Quote of the Day – Shockproof, 1949 (dir. Douglas Sirk)
Jenny Marsh: Maybe I’m no good, but I do love you.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Lady Confesses, 1945 (dir. Sam Newfield)
Lucky Brandon: Don’y you think you’re going overboard? Not that I object to buying a drink, but that stuff isn’t exactly a tonic.
Larry Craig: A guy doesn’t live forever.
Lucky Brandon: What are you celebrating, a long life or an early death?
Larry Craig: Don’y you worry about me, Lucky. I can handle my liquor.
Lucky Brandon: Yeah, looks like it.
Larry Craig: Just as good as you can handle your women.
Lucky Brandon: I don’t mix my women with Scotch.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Amazing Mr. X, 1948 (dir. Bernard Vorhaus)
Martin: I’m afraid I must insist you don’t come here again.
Christine: Insist? By what right do you insist?
Martin: We’re engaged.
Christine: Even if were were married, I would think as I pleased.
Movie Quote of the Day – Jennifer, 1953 (dir. Joel Newton)
Jim: The old Padre must have been quite a guy. To build a string of these things you had to believe in what you were doing.
Agnes: It was easier in then.
Jim: Why?
Agnes: Well, they didn’t have the problems we have now.
Jim: Oh?
Agnes: The machine age and everything.
Jim: Uh-huh. What makes you think the machine age is our real problem today?
Agnes: It is.
Jim: No. No, our real problem today is the same one they had then: people.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Brasher Doubloon, 1947 (dir. John Brahm)
Mrs. Elizabeth Murdock: To tell you the truth, I was expecting an older man, someone more intelligent looking.
Philip Marlowe: I’m wearing a disguise.
Movie Quote of the Day – Shack Out On 101, 1955 (dir. Edward Dein)
George: Aww what’s the use. It’s all a bunch of slop
Eddie: You’re just finding that out? Life’s 99% walking through slop – to get to the roses!
George: I’ll buy that, but when do I get to smell them?!
Movie Quote of the Day – Road House, 1948 (dir. Jean Negulesco)
Lily Stevens: Are you decent?
Pete Morgan: Nobody’s ever accused me of it.
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