"Feast your eyes! Glut your soul on my accursed ugliness!"
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
"Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet. Wait a minute, I tell ya, you ain't heard nothin'! Do you wanna hear 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie!'?"
The Jazz Singer (1927)
"I'll meet you tonight under the moon. Oh, I can see you now, you and the moon. You wear a necktie so I'll know ya."
The Cocoanuts (1929)
- "When I want to know anything from you, I'll tell you, you long-legged son of a - "
- "If you want to call me that, smile."
- "With a gun against my belly, I-I always smile."
The Virginian (1929)
"You know I can't run away. That's why you accuse me. I tell you I didn't want to kill you. I could keep you alive. If you jumped in here again, I wouldn't do it. You see, when you jumped in here, you were my enemy - and I was afraid of you. But you're just a man like me, and I killed you. Forgive me, comrade. Say that for me. Say you forgive me! Oh, no. You're dead! Only you're better off than I am. You're through. They can't do any more to you now. Oh, God, why did they do this to us? We only wanted to live, you and I. Why should they send us out to fight each other? If we threw away these rifles and these uniforms, you could be my brother just like Kat and Albert. You'll have to forgive me, comrade."
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
"And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death."
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
"Gimme a whiskey, ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby."
Anna Christie (1930)
"One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas, I don't know."
Animal Crackers (1930)
"We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed...But we're going back again in a couple of weeks."
Animal Crackers (1930)
"The age of chivalry has passed. This, honey, is the age of chiselry."
Blonde Crazy (1931)
"Oh, that dirty, double-crossin' rat. I'd like to get my own hooks on him. I'd tear him to pieces."
Blonde Crazy (1931)
"I am...Drac-u-la. I bid you welcome."
Dracula (1931)
"Listen to them. Children of the night. What mu-u-u-sic they make."
Dracula (1931)
"I never drink wi-i-ine."
Dracula (1931)
"Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, IT'S ALIVE!"
Frankenstein (1931)
"Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?"
Little Caesar (1931)
"I am Mata Hari, my own master."
Mata Hari (1931)
"The men I know, and I've known dozens of them, oh, they're so nice, so polished, so considerate. Most women like that type. I guess they're afraid of the other kind. I thought I was, too. But you're so strong. You don't give. You take. Oh, Tommy, I could love you to death."
Public Enemy (1931)
- "I didn't ask you for any lip. I asked you if you had a drink."
- "I know Tom, but I, I wish that..."
- "There you go with that wishin' stuff again. I wish you was a wishin' well. So that I could tie a bucket to ya and sink ya."
- "Maybe you found someone you like better?"
Public Enemy (1931)
"I ain't so tough."
Public Enemy (1931)
"I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair."
Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
"But I want to be alone."
Grand Hotel (1932)
"The Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come. People go. Nothing ever happens."
Grand Hotel (1932)
"You're a disgrace to our family name of Wagstaff, if such a thing is possible. What's all this talk I hear about you fooling around with the college widow? No wonder you can't get out of college. Twelve years in one college! I went to three colleges in twelve years and fooled around with three college widows! When I was your age, I went to bed right after supper. Sometimes I went to bed before supper. Sometimes I went without my supper and didn't go to bed at all! A college widow stood for something in those days. In fact, she stood for plenty."
Horsefeathers (1932)
"I'd horsewhip you, if I had a horse."
Horse Feathers (1932)
"Baravelli. You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it."
Horse Feathers (1932)
- "Will you write? Do you need any money? But you must, Jim. How do you live?"
- "I steal!"
I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
- "What is the law?"
- "Not to run on all fours. That is the law. Are we not men?" (repeated)
- "What is the law?"
- "Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?" (repeated)
- "What is the law?"
- "Not to spill blood. That is the law. Are we not men?" (repeated)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
"This world's divided into two kinds of people - the hunter and the hunted. Luckily, I'm a hunter. Nothing can ever change that."
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
- "He talks of wine and women as a prelude to the hunt. We barbarians know that it is after the chase - and then only - that man revels."
- "It does seem a bit like cocktails before breakfast."
- "Of course, yes. You know the saying of the Ugandi chieftains: 'Hunt first the enemy, then the woman.'"
- "That's the savages' idea everywhere."
- "It is the natural instinct."
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
"He-he-he went for a little walk! Ha, ha, ha.You should have seen his face! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...!"
The Mummy (1932)
- "Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!"
- "Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie."
Night After Night (1932)
- "I've changed my name."
- "Married?"
- "No. It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily."
- "So you're Shanghai Lily."
- "The notorious white flower of China. You heard of me. And you always believed what you heard."
- "And I still do. You see, I haven't changed at all."
Shanghai Express (1932)
- "Yes, Jane. (She points at him.) You? (She points at herself.) Jane."
- (He points at her.) "Jane."
- "And you? (She points at him.) You?"
- (Pointing to himself with jabs.) "Tarzan, Tarzan."
- "Tarzan."
- "Jane, Tarzan, Jane, Tarzan..."
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)
- "It must be the most marvelous supper. We may not eat it, but it must be marvelous."
- "Yes, baron."
- "And waiter."
- "Yes, baron."
- "You see that moon?"
- "Yes, baron."
- "I want to see that moon in the champagne."
- "Yes, baron. Moon in champagne."
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- "I have a confession to make to you. Baron, you are a crook. You robbed the gentleman in 253, 5, 7, and 9. May I have the salt?"
- "Please."
- "Thank you."
- "The pepper too?"
- "No, thank you."
- "You're very welcome."
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- "I was reading a book the other day...Yes. It's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?"
- "Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about."
Dinner at Eight (1933)
"You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle."
Duck Soup (1933)
"Clear? Huh! Why, a four year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it."
Duck Soup (1933)
"I could dance with you 'til the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows 'til you come home."
Duck Soup (1933)
"Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."
Duck Soup (1933)
- "This is a gala day for you."
- "Well, a gal a day is enough for me. I don't think I could handle any more."
Duck Soup (1933)
"I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."
Duck Soup (1933)
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."
Duck Soup (1933)
- "I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth or eleven years in Twelveworth."
- "I tell you what I'll do. I'll take five and ten in Woolworth."
Duck Soup (1933)
- "I'm not asking anything of you that I wouldn't ask of my own sister. Now, will you do it?"
- "I'll do it. Sounds like a new thrill. Come on, girls."
- "That's the stuff."
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
"Outside, Countess. As long as they've got sidewalks, you've got a job."
Footlight Parade (1933)
"It must have been tough on your mother, not having any children."
42nd Street (1933)
"You look adorable. Now go out there and be so swell that you'll make me hate you."
42nd Street (1933)
"Sawyer, you listen to me and you listen hard. 200 people, 200 jobs, $200,000 dollars, five weeks of grind and blood and sweat depend upon you. It's the lives of all these people who have worked with you. You've got to go on, and you have to give and give and give. They've got to like you, they've got to. Do you understand? You can't fall down. You can't, because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you. All right now, I'm through. But you keep your feet on the ground and your head on those shoulders of yours and go out ... and Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
42nd Street (1933)
"Well, it's not the men in your life that counts. It's the life in your men."
I'm No Angel (1933)
"Well, when I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better."
I'm No Angel (1933)
"Oh Beulah...Peel me a grape."
I'm No Angel (1933)
"And don't forget. Come up and see me sometime."
I'm No Angel (1933)
"The drugs I took seemed to light up my brain. Suddenly I realized the power I held, the power to rule, to make the world grovel at my feet."
The Invisible Man (1933)
"We'll begin with a reign of terror - a few murders here and there. Murders of great men, murders of little men. Just to show we make no distinction. I might even wreck a train or two... just these fingers around a signalman's throat, that's all."
The Invisible Man (1933)
"It's money and adventure and fame. It's the thrill of a lifetime and a long sea voyage that starts at six o'clock tomorrow morning."
King Kong (1933)
"Look up slowly, Ann. That's it. You don't see anything. Now look higher. Still higher. Now you see it. You're amazed! You can't believe it. Your eyes open wider. It's horrible, Ann, but you can't look away. There's no chance for you, Ann. No escape. You're helpless, Ann, helpless. There's just one chance, if you can scream. But your throat's paralyzed. Try to scream, Ann. Try. Perhaps if you didn't see it, you could scream. Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, Ann, scream for your life!"
King Kong (1933)
"Oh, no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast."
King Kong (1933)
"I wasn't always rich...No, there was a time I didn't know where my next husband was coming from."
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- "Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evenin'."
- "Yeah, but I'm busy every evening."
- "Busy? So whaddya tryin' to do? Insult me?"
- "Why no, no, not at all. I'm just busy, that's all."
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
"It was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost."
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
"You know, it takes two to get one in trouble."
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
"When women go wrong, men go right after them."
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
"You're my prisoner. And I'm gonna be your jailer for a long, long time."
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- "Where'd you get that, dark and handsome?"
- "You Bad-Girl."
- "Mmm, you'll find out."
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
Sons of the Desert (1933)
"Chance is the fool's name for fate."
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
"Shapeley's the name - and that's the way I like 'em!"
It Happened One Night (1934)
"Behold the walls of Jericho! Uh, maybe not as thick as the ones that Joshua blew down with his trumpet, but a lot safer. You see, uh, I have no trumpet."
It Happened One Night (1934)
"A good night's rest'll do you a lot of good. Besides, you got nothin' to worry about. The walls of Jericho will protect you from the big bad wolf."
It Happened One Night (1934)
"Aren't you going to give me a little credit?"
- "What for?"
- "Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb."
- "Why didn't you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars."
- "Oh, I'll remember that when we need forty cars."
It Happened One Night (1934)
"Suffering sciatica!"
It's a Gift (1934)
"You dirty swine! I never cared for you, not once. I was always makin' it up to soften ya. Ya bored me stiff. I hated ya. It made me sick when I had to let ya kiss me. I only did it because ya begged me, ya hounded me and drove me crazy! And after you kissed me, I always used to wipe my mouth! Wipe my mouth!"
Of Human Bondage (1934)
"They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel!"
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
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- "Say, how many drinks have you had?"
- "This will make six martinis."
- "All right. Will you bring me five more martinis, Leo? And line them right up here."
The Thin Man (1934)
- "Oh, I'm a hero. I was shot twice in the Tribune.
- "I read where you were shot five times in the tabloids."
- "It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids."
The Thin Man (1934)
"My soul, woman, I give you three murders and you're still not satisfied."
The Thin Man (1934)
"Get out! From now on, I close the iron door on you."
Twentieth Century (1934)
"He won't kill himself. It would please too many people."
Twentieth Century (1934)
"If there is justice in heaven, Mildred Plotka, you will end up where you belong - in the burlesque house!"
Twentieth Century (1934)
- "Before you came, I was all alone. It is bad to be alone."
- "Alone: bad. Friend: good! Friend: good! Ha, ha, ha."
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
"To a new World of Gods and Monsters. Ha, ha."
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
"Yes, go! You live! Go!...You stay! We belong dead!"
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
"'Twas I informed on your son, Mrs. McPhillip. Forgive me."
The Informer (1935)
- "Mr. Christian, I give you your last chance to return to duty."
- "I'll take my chance against the law. You'll take yours against the sea."
- "But you're taking my ship. My ship!"
- "Your ship? The King's ship, you mean. And you're not fit to command it. Into the boat!"
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
"I'll take this boat, as she floats, to England, if I must. I'll live to see you - all of ya - hanging from the highest yardarm in the British fleet!"
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
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"When you're back in England with the fleet again, you'll hear the hue and cry against me. From now on, they'll spell mutiny with my name."
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- "Waiter."
- "Yes, sir."
- "Have you, uh, got any milk-fed chicken?"
- "Yes, sir."
- "Well, squeeze the milk outta one and bring me a glass."
- "Yes, sir."
A Night at the Opera (1935)
"And you're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of 'Minnie The Moocher' for seventy-five cents. For a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie."
A Night at the Opera (1935)