“Dodsworth” quotes

“Love has got to stop some place short of suicide.”
Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth

“- Edith Cortright: Would you like to enjoy life for a while?
- Sam Dodsworth: Show me how.”
Mary Astor - Edith Cortright
Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth

“- Sam Dodsworth: You want to divorce me then?
- Fran Dodsworth: Why should I want to divorce you? You're my husband.
- Sam Dodsworth: You couldn't very well divorce me if I weren't.”
Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth
Ruth Chatterton - Fran Dodsworth

“I want a new life, all over from the very beginning. A perfectly glorious, free, adventurous life.”

Ruth Chatterton - Fran Dodsworth

“I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about but the temperature of the beer. If there is anything more important.”
Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth

“I suppose people travel to get away from themselves.”
Mary Astor - Edith Cortright

“I'm willing to do anything I can to make you happy. I love you. You know that.”

Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth

“- Fran Dodsworth: You're hopeless - you haven't the mistiest notion of civilization.
- Sam Dodsworth: Yeah, well maybe I don't think so much of it, though. Maybe clean hospitals, concrete highways, and no soldiers along the Canadian border come near my idea of civilization.”
Ruth Chatterton - Fran Dodsworth
Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth

“I'm out to make a new life for myself. I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure, now I've retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free.”
Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth

“I'm out to see the world I haven't seen and get a perspective on the USA. I might get to know myself at the same time. I might even get to know my wife.”
Walter Huston - Sam Dodsworth

“I thought civilized people knew where an innocent flirtation stops. For a civilized woman who's been married as long as you have, you're making a great deal of a small matter.”

David Niven - Captain Lockert