Great movie lines

[n11pilot]

Aren't you going to give me a little credit?

What for?

Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.

(It Happened One Night)

Classic line after a classic scene!

[segarfan]

"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"

Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter

[DLFerguson]

"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"

Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter

The most quotable movie in film history. One of my favorites: "When the king is off his ass, nobody sleeps!"

[segarfan]

yes indeed; it's studded with great lines. here's another fun quote:

Henry II: "I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody"
Eleanor: "At my age there's not much traffic anymore"

[DLFerguson]

yes indeed; it's studded with great lines. here's another fun quote:

Henry II: "I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody"
Eleanor: "At my age there's not much traffic anymore"

Prince Geoffrey: My you chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered.
Prince Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.

[DanielJones]

Some from Blackadder (not quite from a movie, but great lines anyway)

"Baldrick, your brain is like the four headed, man-eating haddock fish beast of Aberdeen"
"In what way? "
"It doesn't exist "

Baldrick, you wouldn't recognize a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on a harpsicord singing 'subtle plans are here again'.

"I want my mother."
"Ah, yes Baldrick. A maternally crazed gorilla would come in handy at this very moment."

Kate, he looks like what he is - a dung ball in a dress.

Cheers!

Dan

[segarfan]

Yes, "Blackadder" is terrific. And it's nice to remember that Hugh Laurie was great years before "House"

[Blackthorn]

"I opened his pocket and I jumped in head first. I sat there and measured my strength...I had so much, Doris. That's the way I figured."

Force of Evil (John Garfield)

[Doug Palumbo]

I love this little speech. It really works for all aspects of life...do your best and give it your all in everything you do, you will succeed. Do a half-assed job, you will fail.

[Blackthorn]

"You think I just sell guns, don't you? I don't. I take sides.

"But in the Iran-Iraq war you sold guns to both sides."

"Did you ever consider that I wanted both sides to lose?"

Lord of War (NIcolas Cage)

more...

"The first and most important rule of gunrunning is, don't get shot with your own merchandise."

[Cousi]

I believe.....
That to have a friend, a man must be one.
That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.
That 'this government of the people, by the people, and for the people' shall live always.
That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
That sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.
In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.

Not directly from a movie (that I remember) but something worth repeating.

Apologies to Doug, who introduced this to me.

[Doug Palumbo]

I believe.....
That to have a friend, a man must be one.
That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.
That 'this government of the people, by the people, and for the people' shall live always.
That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
That sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.
In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.

Not directly from a movie (that I remember) but something worth repeating.

Apologies to Doug, who introduced this to me.

*Sniff*...Brings a tear to my eye...

[n11pilot]

I believe.....
That to have a friend, a man must be one.
That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
That God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.
That 'this government of the people, by the people, and for the people' shall live always.
That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
That sooner or later...somewhere...somehow...we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.
In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.

Not directly from a movie (that I remember) but something worth repeating.

Apologies to Doug, who introduced this to me.

*Sniff*...Brings a tear to my eye...

That is the creed of the Lone Ranger more specifically the creed of the Junior Rangers. One of the very few advantages of being born in the mid 50s is that there actually were heros on TV and in the movies.

[Doug Palumbo]

Oh, yes, I know The Lone Ranger Creed well. I was introduced to it by my dad and I have in turn introduced it to my boys.

[Major Eaton]

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.

In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise.

Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!"