Best drama movie quotes of 1952

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The Quiet Man picture

Michaleen Flynn: None 'o that now, none 'o that. It's a bold sinful man y'are Sean Thornton. And who taught you to be playin' patty-fingers in the Holy Water?
Thornton: Just bein' polite, is all.

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High Noon picture

Will: I've got to, that's the whole thing.

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Ivanhoe picture

Rebecca: I love you - and I must not feel it - yet Ivanhoe I love you, with all the longing in this lonely world.

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Limelight picture

Calvero: Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

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Scaramouche picture

Doutreval of Dijon: Think of this. A sword is like a bird. If you clutch it too tightly, you choke it - too lightly and it flies away.

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Henri: Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning. I have it on the very highest authority.

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Come Back, Little Sheba picture

Doc: God grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.

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The Bad and the Beautiful picture

Lila: I forgot to tell you, Georgia. I saw the picture. Thought you were swell.

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Ikiru picture

Novelist: We have to be greedy for life. They say greed is a vice, but that's outdated. Greed is a virtue, especially greed for enjoying life.

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Rev. Martin Gregory: There's the church. A great little country church standing up there in the middle of the town. It's the center of the place architecturally. It should be the center of the place spiritually too. But it's not. No. That little tin-pot shack of a cinema they're going to tonight has more influence on the lives of people here than the church.

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Prudence 'Spitfire' Stevens: My father taught me howt o defend myself against rough men, but he told me he could only warn me about gentlemen.

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Angel: Listen, sugar, the only way that you can keep me warm is to wrap me up in a marriage license.

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