More Favorite Movie Quotes
by Randy Rawls
Last month, I wrote about some of my favorite movie quotes. It stirred up some interesting responses and got me thinking and looking around the Internet. I discovered a whole treasure of lines from Humphrey Bogart movies.
CASABLANCA
Rick: Your cash is good at the bar.
Banker: What? Do you know who I am?
Rick: I do. You're lucky the bar's open to you.
Woman: What makes saloonkeepers so snobbish?
Banker: Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam.
Carl: Second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.
Banker: Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam.
Carl: Second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.
Ugarte: You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.
Ilsa: Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.
Rick: ...Here's looking at you, kid.
Rick: Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.
Rick: Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Rick: We'll always have Paris.
THE MALTESE FALCON
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.
Sam Spade: You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.
Sam Spade: You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.
Wilmer Cook: Keep on riding me and they're gonna be picking iron out of your liver.
Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
Sam Spade: My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but Mrs. Spade didn't raise any children dippy enough to make guesses in front of a district attorney, and an assistant district attorney and a stenographer.
Detective Tom Polhaus: [picks up the falcon] Heavy. What is it?
Sam Spade: The stuff that dreams are made of.
Sam Spade: The stuff that dreams are made of.
Sam Spade: People lose teeth talking like that. If you want to hang around, you'll be polite.
Sam Spade: Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be.
Charlie Allnut: Well I ain't sorry for you no more, ya crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!
Charlie: Well, yeah, but I never tried shooting myself in the head neither.
Charlie Allnut: I don't blame you for being scared—not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of white water...
Rose Sayer: I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!
Rose Sayer: I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!
Charlie: What an absurd idea! What an absurd idea! Lady, I may be a born fool, but you got ten absurd ideas to my one, an' don't you forget it!
Captain of Louisa: I think I shall have to hang you twice.
Captain of Louisa: By the authority granted to me by his Imperial Majestey Kaiser Wilhelm the Second I pronounce you man and wife—proceed with the execution.
Charlie: It's a great thing to have a lady aboard with clean habits. It sets the man a good example. A man alone, he gets to living like a hog.
Sorry to be so longwinded, but they go on and on. Hard not to include them all. And that's only three of Bogie's movies. I can keep this up forever.