Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Classic One Liners and Quotes

Les Gillis

One of the Regulars
Messages
122
Location
Dallas, Texas
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
 

Benzadmiral

Call Me a Cab
Messages
2,815
Location
The Swamp
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."
 
Last edited:

Effingham

A-List Customer
Messages
415
Location
Indiana
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

I'll Lock Up
Messages
4,042
Location
On the move again...
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

Messages
13,319
Location
California native living in Arizona.
"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

One of the Regulars
Messages
205
Location
London, England
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

A-List Customer
Messages
415
Location
Indiana
"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)
 
Last edited:

fluteplayer07

One Too Many
Messages
1,844
Location
Michigan
"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?
 

Adcurium

A-List Customer
Messages
316
Location
Newport County, Rhode Island
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).
 
Last edited:

DNO

One Too Many
Messages
1,815
Location
Toronto, Canada
"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

One Too Many
Messages
1,815
Location
Toronto, Canada
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.
 

vitanola

I'll Lock Up
Messages
4,254
Location
Gopher Prairie, MI
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

New in Town
Messages
16
Location
Alexandria,LA
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

Call Me a Cab
Messages
2,605
Location
England
Leningrad Cowboys go America.

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

Forum statistics

Threads
109,075
Messages
3,073,773
Members
54,078
Latest member
SouthworthTailoringCo
Top