Best movie quotes of 1953

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Hondo Lane: You baked today. Smell fresh bread on you. And top of that you smell all over like a woman, rich and warm and soft. I could find you in the dark Mrs. Lowe.

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Duke: What'd you give the Krauts for that egg?
Sefton: Forty-five cigarettes. The price has gone up.
Duke: They wouldn't be the cigarettes you took us for last night?
Sefton: What was I going to do with them? I only smoke cigars.

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Bennett: Snorkers! Good-oh.

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Calamity Jane: Excitement? Why, I got more arrows in the back of that coach than a porcupine has got stickers.

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Peter Pan: Well, well, a codfish on a hook.
Captain Hook: I'll get you for this, Pan, if it's the last thing I do.

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Capt. Dooley: Tell them we're in a jam. Loosen up and lose some altitude. We're turning North West until we run out of gas.
Pilot: But if we go North West Captain, we'll fly right off the map. It says "unchartered" up that way.

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Narrator: Give this man satin undies, a dress, a sweater and a skirt, or even the lounging outfit he has on, and he's the happiest individual in the world. He can work better, think better, he can play better, and he can be more of a credit to his community and his government because he is happy.

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Diana: Then all the tales I've heard of you are true.
Marcellus Gallio: Every man makes enemies.
Diana: All your enemies seem to be women.

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Dr Clayton Forrester: We prayed for a miracle.

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Girl In Train Station: Gee, there's a mob of reporters and photographers over there.
Man In Train Station: Yeah, there must be some big shot aboard. Maybe the president.
Girl In Train Station: No, too many for that. Probably a movie star.

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Lorelei Lee: I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.

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Mechanic: Think of it as a train behind you. Forty feet of train.

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Sergeant Milton Warden: Rose, do you know why I like to have you serve me beer? So as I can watch you when you walk away.

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Pepe Le Pew: All is love in fair and war.

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Ernie Driscoll: There are worse things than murder. You can kill someone an inch at a time.

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