Classic One Liners and Quotes

[Les Gillis]

The Wild Bunch

Sykes: Didn't figure to find you here.
Deke Thornton: Why not? I sent them back. That's all I promised to do.
Sykes: They didn't get very far.
Deke Thornton: I figured.
Sykes: What are your plans, now?
Deke Thornton: Drift around down here. Try to stay out of jail.
Sykes: Well, me and the boys got some work to do. You want to come with us? It ain't like it used to be; but it'll do.


Les

 

[Mike in Seattle]

I couldn't help overhearing. I had my ear to the door.
-- Ray Collins as Uncle Matt in The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (1947)

 

[Les Gillis]

Quigley

This ain't Dodge City. And you ain't Bill Hickok. - Matthew Quigley

 

[Benzadmiral]

Bringing this back from the vault . . .

From "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1964-1968):

Solo (calling his partner Illya Kuryakin on the office intercom): "Illya, are you free?"
Illya: "No man is free who works for a living. But I'm available."
*
Rudolph: "This is Thrush, you blockhead! You will never pull it off!"
Solo (levelly): "Well, that's unfortunate for you, Rudolph. Because you're going to go in front of me. And where I step, you will have stepped first; and where I die, you will have died first."


From "Star Trek: The Original Series":

Trelane the "Squire of Gothos" (eyeing Spock on the bridge): "Not quite human, is he?"
Spock: "My father was a native of the planet Vulcan."
Trelane: "Oh? And are its natives predatory?"
Spock (levelly): "Not generally. But there have been . . . exceptions."
*
Kirk (to the looming mile-wide First Federation ship which has given them ten minutes to live): "It may interest you to know that since the initial use of corbomite more than two of our centuries ago, no attacking vessel has survived the attempt." (A pause; then) "Death has little meaning to us. If it has none to you . . . then attack us now. We grow annoyed at your foolishness."
*
Spock (to Kirk, about the rapidly growing telekinetic power of crewman Gary Mitchell): "You heard the mathematics of it. In a month, he'll have as much in common with us as we'd have with a shipful of white mice."

 

[Effingham]

From a noir whose title has been forgotten:

"We'll just have to wait. They say patience is a virtue."
"Who says that?"
"Patient, virtuous people?"

 

[DanielJones]

From To Be or Not To Be (1942)

Greenberg: Mr. Rawitch, what you are I wouldn't eat.
Rawitch: How dare you call me a ham?

Professor Alexander Siletsky: Shall we drink to a blitzkrieg?
Maria Tura: I prefer a slow encirclement.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[rue]

"A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all. But I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I hadn't thought of that girl." Citizen Kane

"Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition." Pillow Talk

 

[Philip Adams]

From 'Pickup on South Street' (1953)

Moe Williams: "Even in our crummy kind of business you gotta draw the line somewheres!"

and also

"That muffin you grifted - she’s OK. Stuck her chin way out for you."

 

[Effingham]

"all you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people." - My Man Godfrey, 1936

Oh, Lordy. I love that movie.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce, upon seeing a bunch of oddly colored mix-breed kittens: "What do you think their parents were?"
WC Fields: "Careless, my little cupcake, careless."
--- International House

PHJ: "Wait, I'm sitting on something..."
WCFields: "I lost *mine* in the stock market."
--- International House


(It's a very fun film)

 

[AtomicEraTom]

"Are you gonna pull those pistols, or whistle Dixie?" - Josey Wales

 

[fluteplayer07]

"Either his brains or his signature will be on the contract"

-We have clearance, Clarence.
-Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?
-Tower's radio clearance, over!
-That's Clarence Oveur. Over.
-Over.
-Roger.
-Huh?
-Roger, over!
-What?

 

[Zombie_61]

"*HONK*"
Harpo Marx


Sorry, most of the good lines were already taken. :cool2:

 

[Adcurium]

I'm a Gen-X-er. So I've got to add:

"Look at his haircut. Anyone with a haircut like that's an A$$h0le."

Oh, and that was Gary, from Weird Science, talking about Chett (Wyatt's Brother).

 

[DNO]

"I ain't so tough" James Cagney in The Public Enemy

"Dying ain't much of a living, boy" Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josie Wales

"Shop smart. Shop S-Mart" Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness

"Honey, you got reeeal ugly!" Bruce Cambell again, Army of Darkness

"Nobody puts ketchup on a hot dog" Clint Eastwood in Sudden Impact.

 

[DNO]

I almost forgot the classics from Plan 9 from Outer Space:

"Because all of you of Earth are idiots" Dudley Manlove's great moment.

"We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future" Crisswell's wonderful intro.

"I'm a big boy now, Johnny" one of Tor Johnson's few lines...every one a gem.

 

[TidiousTed]

Classic golde era quotes

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

 

[Hep Caterina]

She: "do you have the draps?" (drapes)
He: the draps? Well, Ive had the measles, what are the draps like?"
"The Rage of Paris" 1938

 

[vitanola]

Lines (well, intertitles) from an old favorite of mine, "Our Dancing Daughters":

Diana (holding a new bottle of perfume) "Why, Mother, how vicious! You're much too young to use it. I'll take it."

Annikins: "Oh, I never drink."
Freddie" "She doesn't drink. She inhales!"

Diana (after receiving a passionate kiss from Johnny Mack Brown) "What a service station you turned out to be!"

 

[Hep Caterina]

oh thought of another one- this really is a great little movie.
Nicole: "He meant I was dishonest"

Gloria: Darling all women are dishonest- your lipstick is dishonest, plucking your eyebrows is dishonest, the rouge on your cheeks is dishonest, and a fat woman in a girdle? thats highway robbery!" the Rage of Paris 1938

 

[rocketeer]

Leningrad Cowboys go America.

Siberian Svengali(After audition)
"No commercial potential. Go to America. They'll put up with anything there..."