“Sabrina” quotes

(1954)
Movie Sabrina
Title Sabrina
Year 1954
Director Billy Wilder
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Plot – Sabrina is a pretty, naive and romantic girl and the daughter of the driver of an American millionaire family. She's secretly in love with David from her childhood, the youngest and reckless son of the family, but he's unaware even of her existence. Sabrina tries to commit suicide, then her father sends her to Paris to let her forget about David. After two years Sabrina comes back and she's completely changed. Now she's no longer the romantically dreamy girl, but a lady conscious of her beauty. At first David doesn't recognize her but then he falls in love with her, neglecting his rich fiancé. David's attitude worries Linus, his elder brother who manages the important father's company. If his brother's marriage is in danger, an important financial combination will be ruined. Due to a trivial accident, David is forced to bed and Linus takes the opportunity to court ruthlessly Sabrina, pretending to love her and proposing her to travel to Paris.
All actors – Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, John Williams, Martha Hyer, Joan Vohs, Marcel Dalio, Marcel Hillaire, Nella Walker, Francis X. Bushman, Ellen Corby, David Ahdar, Raymond Bailey, Marjorie Bennett, Ralph Brooks, Colin Campbell, Harvey B. Dunn, Fritz Ford, Otto Forrest, Chuck Hamilton, Rand Harper, Sam Harris, Charles Harvey, Paul Harvey, Nancy Kulp, Kay E. Kuter, Bill Neff, Emory Parnell, Gregory Ratoff, Kay Riehl, Marion Ross, Emmett Vogan
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  • “I have learned how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. And I will never, never again run away from life. Or from love, either.”

    Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina Fairchild
    [Tag:life, living, love]
  • “- Linus Larrabee: She doesn't want money; she wants love.
    - Oliver Larrabee: I thought they discontinued that model.”

    Humphrey Bogart - Linus Larrabee
    Walter Hampden - Oliver Larrabee
  • “Bonjour, mesdames et monsiuers. Yesterday we have learned the correct way how to boil water. Today we will learn the correct way how to crack an egg. Voilà! An egg. Now, an egg is not a stone; it is not made of wood, it is a living thing. It has a heart. So when we crack it, we must not torment it. We must be merciful and execute it quickly,...” (continue)(continue reading)
    Marcel Hillaire - The Professor
    [Tag:cooking]
  • “All columnists should be beaten to a pulp and converted back into paper!”
    Walter Hampden - Oliver Larrabee
    [Tag:journalist]
  • “- David Larrabee: I feel so stupid I could kill myself.
    - Sabrina Fairchild: You'll be all right in a minute.”

    William M. Holden - David Larrabee
    Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina Fairchild
    [Tag:stupidity]
  • “- Sabrina Fairchild: I hate girls that giggle all the time.
    - Thomas Fairchild: You hate every girl David looks at.”

    Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina Fairchild
    John Williams - Thomas Fairchild
    [Tag:jealousy]
  • “- Thomas Fairchild: I like to think of life as a limousine. Though we are all riding together, we must remember our places. There's a front seat and a back seat and a window in between.
    - Linus Larrabee: Fairchild, I never realized it before, but you're a terrible snob.
    - Thomas Fairchild: Yes, sir.”

    John Williams - Thomas Fairchild
    Humphrey Bogart - Linus Larrabee
    [Tag:life, snob]
  • “Democracy can be a wickedly unfair thing, Sabrina. Nobody poor was ever called democratic for marrying somebody rich.”
    John Williams - Thomas Fairchild
  • “A woman happily in love, she burns the soufflé. A woman unhappily in love, she forgets to turn on the oven.”
    Marcel Dalio - Baron St. Fontanel
  • “- Sabrina Fairchild: Maybe you should go to Paris, Linus.
    - Linus Larrabee: To Paris?
    - Sabrina Fairchild: It helped me a lot. Have you ever been there?
    - Linus Larrabee: Oh, yes. Yes. Once. I was there for thirty-five minutes.
    - Sabrina Fairchild: Thirty-five minutes?
    - Linus Larrabee: Changing planes. I was on my way to Iraq on an oil...” (continue)
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    Audrey Hepburn - Sabrina Fairchild
    Humphrey Bogart - Linus Larrabee
    [Tag:paris, traveling]
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