“The Talk of the Town” quotes

“If you know what's good for you, take those weapons home and burn them! And then think... think of this country and of the law that makes it what it is. Think of a world crying for this very law! And maybe you'll understand why you ought to guard it.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“This is your law and your finest possession - it makes you free men in a free country. Why have you come here to destroy it?”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“The law must be engraved in our hearts and practiced every minute to the letter and spirit.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“Why the law has got to be the personal concern of every citizen. To uphold it for your neighbor as well as yourself. Violence against it is one mistake.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“Look at me, a dream of twenty years come true. More happiness than any man deserves, that chair. But now there's something else, Nora: my friends. I want to see them as happy as I am.”

Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“What is the law? It's a gun pointed at somebody's head. All depends upon which end of the gun you stand, whether the law is just or not.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“Alright, Joseph, you conduct the law your way on random sentimentality and you will have violence and disorder.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“It's a form of self-expression. Some people write books. Some people write music. I make speeches on street corners.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“I don't approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They're the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“Another mistake is for any man to look upon the law as just a set of principles. And just so much language printed on fine, heavy paper. Something he recites and then leans back and takes it for granted that justice is automatically being done.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap