Best movie quotes of 1944

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Mark McPherson: I suspect nobody and everybody. I am strictly trying to get at the truth.

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Aunt Martha: For a gallon of elderberry wine, I take one teaspoon full of arsenic, then add half a teaspoon full of strychnine, and then just a pinch of cyanide.
Mortimer Brewster: Hmm. Should have quite a kick.

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Gregory Anton: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to me.
Brian Cameron: I knew from the first moment I saw you that you were dangerous to her.

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Mrs. Brown: What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?

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Esther Smith: I'm going to let John Truett kiss me tonight.
Rose Smith: Esther Smith.
Esther Smith: Well, if we're going to get married, I may as well start it.
Rose Smith: Nice girls don't let men kiss them until after they're engaged. Men don't want the bloom rubbed off.
Esther Smith: Personally, I think I have too much bloom. Maybe that's the trouble with me.

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Sherlock Holmes: Watson, have you ever stopped to think that the science of detection is much like stringing a handful of beads?
Dr. John H. Watson: Can't say as I have.

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Professor Henry Holmes: Now I know why the Democratic Party chose a jackass for a mascot.

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Mark Twain: Ladies and gentlemen, William Shakespeare, the greatest author in the English language is dead...and I feel far from well myself.

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Father Fitzgibbons: A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors.

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Rocklin: Touch that gun, and I'll kill you.

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Richard Wanley: The flesh is still strong, but the spirit grows weaker by the hour. You know, even if the spirit of adventure should rise up before me and beckon, even in the form of that alluring young woman in the window next door, I'm afraid that all I'll do is clutch my coat a little tighter, mutter something idiotic and run like the devil.
Dr. Michael Barkstane: Not before you got her number, I hope?
Richard Wanley: Probably.

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Bugs Bunny: You ain't got me yet, by Gum! He he he he! Ow, darn this lumbago.

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Bugs Bunny: You're in for it now, Doc. It's the hot seat for you, sure.

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Slade: Haven't you enough men at your feet already?

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Elmer Fudd: Which way did he go? Which way did he go?

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Little Red Riding Hood: Hey, Grandma! That's an awfully big set of teeth for you... to have.
Wolf: Ah, le adorable froufrou... GET OUT.

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Philip Marlowe: "'Okay Marlowe, ' I said to myself. 'You're a tough guy. You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you're crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let's see you do something really tough - like putting your pants on.'"

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