More Favorite Movie Quotes

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.

         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.

         Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
         Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

         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.

        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: 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: 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.

 THE AFRICAN QUEEN

        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!

        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.