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Movie Quote of the Day – Dance, Girl, Dance, 1940 (dir. Dorothy Arzner)
Bubbles: I ain’t got an ounce of class, sugar, honest.
Movie Quote of the Day – Foreign Correspondent, 1940 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Johnny Jones: I love you, and I want to marry you.
Carol Fisher: I love you, and I want to marry you.
Johnny Jones: Well, that cuts down our love scene quite a bit, doesn’t it?
Movie Quote of the Day – Susan and God, 1940 (dir. George Cukor)
Blossom: Why can’t we all be together once in awhile? Why can’t we be some sort of a family, like other people? Why can’t we? Why can’t we? Why can’t we?
Barrie: I didn’t know you felt this way about it. I suspect it’s all my fault.
Blossom: You’re alright, Dad. Why can’t you be like this all the time?
Barrie: It seems simple enough, doesn’t it? Somehow what we mean to be and what we are, are quite different.
Movie Quote of the Day – They Drive by Night, 1940 (dir. Raoul Walsh)
Joe Fabrini: I always have liked redheads.
Cassie Hartley: You shouldn’t. Red means stop.
Joe Fabrini: I’m colorblind.
Movie Quote of the Day – Spring Parade, 1940 (dir. Henry Koster)
Ilonka Tolnay: Do you own this place?
Headwaiter: No, I don’t.
Ilonka Tolnay: Well, when I buy, I like to buy from the owner, not the help.
Headwaiter: But, please, the owner here does not take orders at the table.
Ilonka Tolnay: Probably because he’s ashamed of his prices.
Corporal Harry Marten: Please, this is Vienna. Everything’s a little higher.
Ilonka Tolnay: Asparagus is asparagus, even in Vienna.
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 – Chamber of Horrors, 1940 (dir. Norman Lee)
June: I for one can think of a much better way to spend the evening.
Dick: Some nightclubs are not much better.
Movie Quote of the Day – His Girl Friday, 1940 (dir. Howard Hawks)
Walter Burns: There’s been a lamp burning in the window for ya, honey… here.
Hildy Johnson: Oh, I jumped out that window a long time ago.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Philadelphia Story, 1940 (dir. George Cukor)
Macaulay Connor: C.K. Dexter Haven! Oh, C.K. Dexter Haven!
C. K. Dexter Haven: What’s up?
Macaulay Connor: You are.
Movie Quote of the Day – Rebecca, 1940 (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Maxim de Winter: The woman that was washed up at Edgecombe, the woman that is now buried in the family crypt, that was not Rebecca. That was the body of some unknown woman, unclaimed, belonging nowhere. I identified it, but I knew it wasn’t Rebecca. It was all a lie. I knew where Rebecca’s body was. Lying on that cabin floor on the bottom of the sea.
Mrs. de Winter: How did you know, Maxim ?
Maxim de Winter: Because I put it there. Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now ? You see ? I was right. It’s too late.
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