Best drama movie quotes of 1958

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The Big Country picture

Patricia Terrill: But if he loved me, why would he let me think he was a coward?
Julie Maragon: If you love him, why would you think it? How many times does a man have to win you?

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Ice Cold In Alex picture

Captain van der Poel: It has been quite an experience. All against the desert. The greater enemy. I've learnt a lot about the English. So different from all I've been taught. Auf wiedersehen.

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The Bravados picture

Sheriff Sanchez: Ladies and gentlemen, there's no need for me to tell you - the emergency arose and the man appeared. Mr Douglass, it's not often a man gets to do so much for his neighbors and do it like you did. We want you to know we'll always be grateful... and in our hearts always.
Jim Douglass: Thank you... and in your prayers, please.

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof picture

Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: I don't like locked doors in my house.

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Vertigo picture

Madeleine: Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.

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The Defiant Ones picture

Noah Cullen: Ni**er! You call me that again, and I'll kill you.

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Separate Tables picture

Mrs. Railton-Bell: Are you on the side of Mr. Malcolm and his defense of vice or are you on the side of the Christian virtues - like Mr. Fowler and myself?
John Malcolm: Never in my life have I heard a question so disgracefully begged. You should be in politics, Mrs. Railton-Bell.

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The Quiet American picture

Inspector Vigot: You know that it is a mistake to say that communism is appealing to the mentally advanced. I think it is only true when the mentally advanced are also emotionally retarded.

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The Young Lions picture

Capt. Hardenberg: The German army is invincible because it is an army that obeys orders. Any order. No matter how distasteful. It has no sentimentalists, no moralists, no individualists. You will have no future in it if you don't understand that. You may have no future at all if you oppose it. I trouble to tell you this because you have a fine record. You will be a creative soldier, once you get all this "thinking" knocked out of you.

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The Lovers picture

Henri Tournier: To me Maggy means phony chic, phony society, phony Paris, phony everything. Even her dog's phony.
Jeanne Tournier: You're being nasty.
Henri Tournier: Not at all. I'm very fond of her.

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A Night to Remember picture

Closing crawl: But this is not the end of the story - -For their sacrifice was not in vain. Today there are lifeboats for all, unceasing radio vigil and, in the North Atlantic, the International Ice Patrol guards the sea lanes, making them safe for the peoples of the world.

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Dunkirk picture

Merchant Seaman: It may be a phoney war to you, but it's not to all the blokes at sea. Never has been.

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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness picture

Jen-Ai: I like China the way it is.
Capt. Lin Nan: Filthy? Ignorant? Backward?
Jen-Ai: No, but if your house is dirty you can clean it.

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