Humphrey Bogart movie quotes

“Mr. Maryk, you may tell the crew for me that there are four ways of doing things aboard my ship: The right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way. They do things my way, and we'll get along.”
Humphrey Bogart - Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg

“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