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Quotes from Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

22 quotes
Cary Grant
Bonnie Lee: [Joe has just died and Bonnie is feeling guilty about his death] Mr. Carter? Mr. Carter? Do you really think... I mean... Do you really think it was my fault, what happened out there?
Geoff Carter: Sure it was your fault. You were gonna have dinner with him, the Dutchman hired him, I sent him up on schedule, the fog came in, a tree got in the way. All your fault. Forget it, unless you want the honor.
- Cary Grant (as Geoff Carter) in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Cary Grant
Bonnie Lee: How can you eat that?
Geoff Carter: What?
Bonnie Lee: Eat that steak.
Geoff Carter: Well, what's the matter with it?
Bonnie Lee: [referring to Joe] It was his!
Geoff Carter: Well, what do you want me to do, have it stuffed?
- Cary Grant (as Geoff Carter) in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Jean Arthur
Bonnie Lee: I know, I know, you'd never ask any woman to do anything.
- Jean Arthur (as Bonnie Lee) in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Jean Arthur
Bonnie Lee: I'm hard to get, Geoff. All you have to do is ask me.
- Jean Arthur (as Bonnie Lee) in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Thomas Mitchell
Bonnie Lee: Say, isn't that girl the one he used to be in love with?
Kid Dabb: Bonnie, when it rains, every third drop falls on one of them.

Jean Arthur
Bonnie Lee: Say, things happen awful fast around here.
- Jean Arthur (as Bonnie Lee) in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Cary Grant
Bonnie Lee: So you're still carrying a torch for her?
Geoff Carter: Gotta light?
- Cary Grant (as Geoff Carter) in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Cary Grant
Bonnie Lee: What was she like, anyway?
Geoff Carter: Who?
Bonnie Lee: That girl that made you act the way you do.
Geoff Carter: A whole lot like you. Just as nice, almost as smart.
Bonnie Lee: Chorus girl?
Geoff Carter: Only by temperament.
- Cary Grant (as Geoff Carter) in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Jean Arthur
Bonnie Lee: You love him, don't you, Kid?
Kid Dabb: Yes, I guess I do.
Bonnie Lee: Why can't I love him the way you do? Why couldn't I sneer when he tries to kill himself, feel proud when he doesn't? Why couldn't I be there to meet him when he gets back? Why couldn't I... What do you do when he doesn't come back when you expect him to?
Kid Dabb: I go nuts.
Bonnie Lee: Gee whiz, you're a great help.
- Jean Arthur (as Bonnie Lee) in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Richard Barthelmess
Sparks: He was quoting Shakespeare, "Henry the 4th" I think, he said. "We owe God a death, if we pay it today, then we don't owe it tomorrow".
Bat Kilgallen: He's no fool.
- Richard Barthelmess (as Bat Mac Pherson) in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)