Humphrey Bogart movie quotes

“Aboard my ship, excellent performance is standard, standard performance is sub-standard, and sub-standard performance is not permitted to exist - that, I warn you.”
Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg

“- Maj. Jack Ross: This generation's had its chance. Hitler, Mussolini, those were the men. Now it's the age of the barbarians. The world's going up in smoke. I say let it come. Get it over with.
- Billy Dannreuther: Well, if you don't mind, I'd like another year or so of worrying.”
Ivor Barnard - Maj. Jack Ross
Humphrey Bogart - Billy Dannreuther

“Trouble with England, it's all pomp and no circumstance. You're very wise to get out of it, escape, while you can.”
Humphrey Bogart - Billy Dannreuther

“The only thing standing between you and a watery grave is your wits, and that's not my idea of adequate protection.”
Humphrey Bogart - Billy Dannreuther

“- Ahmed: Your demands are very great, under the circumstances.
- Billy Dannreuther: Why shouldn't they be? Fat Gut's my best friend, and I will not betray him cheaply.”
Manuel Serrano - Ahmed - Arab Inquisitor
Humphrey Bogart - Billy Dannreuther

“- Peterson: You mean Mrs. Chelm is an unqualified liar?
- Billy Dannreuther: Well, let's say she uses her imagination rather than her memory.”
Robert Morley - Peterson
Humphrey Bogart - Billy Dannreuther

“Nothin' a man can't do if he sets his mind to it. Never say die. That's my motto!”
Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnutt

“It's a great thing to have a lady aboard with clean habits. It sets the man a good example. A man alone, he gets to living like a hog.”
Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnutt

“There ain't nothing so complicated as the inside of a torpedo.”
Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnutt

“- Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
- Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.”
Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnutt
Katharine Hepburn - Rose Sayer

“- Charlie Allnut: How'd you like it?
- Rose Sayer: Like it?
- Charlie Allnut: White water rapids!
- Rose Sayer: I never dreamed...
- Charlie Allnut: I don't blame you for being scared - not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of white water...
- Rose Sayer: I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!”
Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnutt
Katharine Hepburn - Rose Sayer

“One thing in the world I hate: leeches. Filthy little devils.”
Humphrey Bogart - Charlie Allnutt

“I've had a lot of experience in matters of this kind. I've killed dozens of people... in pictures.”
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- Dixon Steele: You annoy me!
- Laurel Gray: If I do, it isn't intentional.”
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele
Gloria Grahame - Laurel Gray

“- Brub Nicolai: You know, I got married.
- Dixon Steele: Why?
- Brub Nicolai: Oh, I don't know. I guess she had a couple of bucks to spare.”
Frank Lovejoy - Brub Nicolai
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- Dixon Steele: Oh, I love a picnic. Acres and acres of sand and all of it in your food.
- Laurel Gray: Stop griping. Just lie still and inhale.
- Dixon Steele: What, sand?
- Laurel Gray: No, air - and don't let it go to your head.”
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele
Gloria Grahame - Laurel Gray

“- Frances Randolph: Do you look down on all women or just the ones you know?
- Dixon Steele: I was pretty nice to you.
- Frances Randolph: No, not to me. But you were pretty nice.”
Alix Talton - Frances Randolph
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“I grant you, the jokes could've been better, but I don't see why the rest should worry you - that is, unless you plan to arrest me on lack of emotion.”

Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- Laurel Gray: I love the love scene - it's very good.
- Dixon Steele: Well that's because they're not always telling each other how much in love they are. A good love scene should be about something else besides love. For instance, this one. Me fixing grapefruit. You sitting over there, dopey, half-asleep. Anyone looking at us could tell we're...” (continue)(continue reading)

Gloria Grahame - Laurel Gray
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- Capt. Lochner: Why didn't you call for a cab? Isn't that what a gentleman usually does under the circumstances?
- Dixon Steele: Oh I didn't say I was a gentleman. I said I was tired.”
Carl Benton Reid - Capt. Lochner
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- Mildred Atkinson: Before I started to go to work at Paul's, I used to think that actors made up their own lines.
- Dixon Steele: When they get to be big stars, they usually do.”
Martha Stewart - Mildred Atkinson
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- Dixon Steele: Go ahead and get some sleep and we'll have dinner together tonight.
- Laurel Gray: We'll have dinner tonight. But not together.”
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele
Gloria Grahame - Laurel Gray

“There's no sacrifice too great for a chance at immortality.”
Humphrey Bogart - Dixon Steele

“- Howard: Ah, $25,000.00 is plenty as far as I'm concerned. Enough to last me out the rest of my lifetime.
- Dobbs: Sure. You're old, I'm young. I need dough and plenty of it!”
Walter Huston - Howard
Humphrey Bogart - Fred C. Dobbs

“Conscience. What a thing. If you believe you got a conscience it'll pester you to death. But if you don't believe you got one, what could it do t'ya? Makes me sick, all this talking and fussing about nonsense.”
Humphrey Bogart - Fred C. Dobbs