Classic One Liners and Quotes

[book_lover]

I've just heard Fred Astaire say to Judy Garland "why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?" (Easter Parade). This reminds me there are lots of fab one liners in the classic movies. Any more you can think of?

ETA more quotes from the film:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040308/quotes

 

[Feraud]

"When you are slapped you will take it and like it."

 

[Tomasso]

Butch Cassidy:Then you jump first.
Sundance Kid: No, I said.
Butch Cassidy: What's the matter with you?
Sundance Kid: I can't swim.
Butch Cassidy: Why you crazy, the fall will probably kill you

 

[book_lover]

Butch Cassidy:Then you jump first.
Sundance Kid: No, I said.
Butch Cassidy: What's the matter with you?
Sundance Kid: I can't swim.
Butch Cassidy: Why you crazy, the fall will probably kill you

I love this film!

 

[Tomasso]

Although Technically Not A One Liner.

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[Feraud]

Leave the gun, take the cannoli. :cool2:

 

[Nick Charles]

If you're going to shoot me get it over with, the Captains waiting to chase me around the deck!--Groucho in monkey business

Can I buy back my introduction to you?-- Groucho to Chico in Cocanuts


i once stole a pornographicbook that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.--Woody Allen in Bananas

 

[DancingSweetie]

I can't remember which movie this comes from, possibly Footlight Parade.
"as long as there are sidewalks you'll have a job"
I'm thinking Joan Blondell said it to Claire Dodd, or vice-versa.
Maybe it was Bed of Roses with Constance Bennett and Pert Kelton.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Cary Grant, "Would you like to see where I've been tattooed?"
Audrey Hepburn, "Yes."
C.G., "I drive you around there later."
-From "Charade"

 

[TM]

That great line is from "Gold Diggers of 1933", from Joan Blondell to Claire Dodd.

Tony

 

[DancingSweetie]

That great line is from "Gold Diggers of 1933", from Joan Blondell to Claire Dodd.

Tony

Thanks!

 

[Girl Friday]

The Thin Man

There are just too many!

Reporter: Say listen, is he working on a case?
Nora Charles: Yes, he is.
Reporter: What case?
Nora Charles: A case of scotch. Pitch in and help him.

and
Reporter: Well, can't you tell us anything about the case?
Nick Charles: Yes, it's putting me way behind in my drinking.

and the best:
Nick Charles: Come on, let's get something to eat. I'm thirsty.

 

[BigSleep]

"You aint goin nowhere chum. And nobody's comin' in either. 'Sept maybe some krauts. We're surrounded!"

Battleground 1949

 

[Serial Hero]

“You gonna do somethin, or just stand there and bleed?”

Along with almost every other line from “Tombstone”.

 

[Haversack]

"Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly but without pity that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years. Heh! That's hard to say with false teeth!" - The Weenie King from _The Palm Beach Story_ 1942.

Haversack.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

"It's not the years ... it's the mileage."

.

 

[carebear]

"You know what ol' Jack Burton says at a time like this?"

"Who?"

"Jack Burton... Me!"



"It's all in the reflexes."

"If we're not back by dawn, call the President."

 

[tallyho]

"you know how to whistle dont you steve? Just put your lips together and blow"

"you're the second man I've met today that thinks a gat in the hand means the world by the tale."

"so many guns around and so few brains"

"She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up"

"High squadrons low squadrons, here they come, twelve o'clock high"

 

[Zach R.]

“You gonna do somethin, or just stand there and bleed?”

Along with almost every other line from “Tombstone”.

I quote Tombstone on a daily basis.

 

[The Wingnut]

"Men don't pine. Girls pine. Men suffer." - Fred Astaire, The Gay Divorcee