Best movie quotes of 1940

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Maxim de Winter: Please promise me never to wear black satin or pearls... or to be 36 years old.

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Mr. Powers: Foreign correspondent! I could get more news out of Europe looking in a crystal ball.

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Michael Shayne: Hey, Steve, that brooch is as phony as a mother-in-law's kiss.

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Mr. Taggart: We've no guarantee that these theories of yours are workable.
Thomas A. Edison: Well, most electricity is theory yet.
Mr. Taggart: That's the trouble. Beyond a point what good is electricity anyway?
Thomas A. Edison: What good is a newborn baby?

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Harriet Vane: May I ask what is your motive for liquidating this little animal?

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Prof. Viktor Roth: May we not believe as we choose and allow others to do the same?

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Ma Joad: Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta - well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream - little eddies and waterfalls - but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way.

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Frank James: I can't talk without thinking, not being a lawyer.

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Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe: We've an old proverb in England that says, "Those who sail without oars stay on good terms with the wind."

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James Lee Wong: Greetings. Only the eyebrows of youth would have the temerity to call the beard of age at such an hour.

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Jiminy Cricket: Well... guess he won't need me anymore. What does an actor want with a conscience, anyway?

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Oliver Hardy: Where's the basement?
Desk Clerk: Downstairs.

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Pete: You know, I used to have a little cat once. And when it was left all alone, it'd cry... meeeeeeeeeoooooooowwwwwww.

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Steve Banning: Those jackals are giving me goose pimples.
Babe Jenson: Aw they're giving me goose pimples on top of my goose pimples.

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Knute, Age 7: Poppa, don't talk Norwegian, talk American. We're all Americans now, especially me. I'm left end.

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Don Diego Vega: I must please ask you to change the subject. His Excellency objects to talk of throat-cutting.
Captain Esteban Pasquale: Quiet, you Popinjay! I have no reason to letting you live either.
Don Diego Vega: What a pleasant coincidence. I feel exactly the same way about you Capitan.
Captain Esteban Pasquale: You wouldn't care to translate that feeling into action would you?
Don Diego Vega: I might be tempted. If I had a weapon.
Captain Esteban Pasquale: Would you.

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