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

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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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Peter Pan: Don't you understand, Tink? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world.

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George Loomis: You smell like a dime store. I know what that means.
Rose Loomis: Sure. I'm meeting somebody, just anybody handy, as long as he's a man! How 'bout the ticket seller himself? I could grab him on the way out, or one of the kids with the phonograph. Anybody suits me. Take your pick.

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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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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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Daffy Duck: Would it be too much to ask if we could make up our minds, hmmmm?

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Mrs. Hittaway: What good is a trailerite if not to help out another trailerite?

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Robert E. Lee "Prew' Prewitt: A man loves a thing that don't mean it's gotta love him back.

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Lancelot: Aye, it is the valley of death... the Devil himself has plowed it under.

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Pepe Le Pew: Quelle est? Une king-sized femme skunk. Acres and acres of her, and she is mine, all mine.

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