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Film Quotes by Clifton Webb

48 quotes
The Razor's Edge
Year: 1946

Director:
Edmund Goulding
Elliott Templeton: The enjoyment of art is the only remaining ecstasy that's neither immoral nor illegal.
-- Clifton Webb (as Elliott Templeton) in The Razor's Edge (1946)
Cheaper by the Dozen
Year: 1950

Director:
Walter Lang
Frank Gilbreth: No person with inner dignity is ever embarrassed.
-- Clifton Webb (as Frank Bunker Gilbreth) in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
The Dark Corner
Year: 1946

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Hardy Cathcart: How I detest the dawn. The grass always looks like it's been left out all night.
-- Clifton Webb (as Hardy Cathcart) in The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Corner
Year: 1946

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Hardy Cathcart: I found the portrait long before I met Mari. And I worshipped it. When I did meet her, it was as if I'd always known her... and wanted her.
Woman in Gallery: Oh, how romantic.
Hardy Cathcart: If you prefer to be maudlin about it, perhaps.
-- Clifton Webb (as Hardy Cathcart) in The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Corner
Year: 1946

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Hardy Cathcart: Lovers of beauty never haggle over price, Tony.
-- Clifton Webb (as Hardy Cathcart) in The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Corner
Year: 1946

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Hardy Cathcart: Take, uh, Tony for instance. I'd never imagine him to be interested in... Lucy Wilding, but he is.
Mari Cathcart: It's not true! He's always loathed her.
Hardy Cathcart: He loathed her rather intimately, I'm afraid.
-- Clifton Webb (as Hardy Cathcart) in The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Corner
Year: 1946

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Hardy Cathcart: The enjoyment of art is the only remaining ecstasy that is neither immoral nor illegal.
-- Clifton Webb (as Hardy Cathcart) in The Dark Corner (1946)
Three Coins in the Fountain
Year: 1954

Director:
Jean Negulesco
John Frederick Shadwell: These girls in love never realize that they should be honestly dishonest instead of being dishonestly honest.
-- Clifton Webb (as John Frederick Shadwell) in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
Three Coins in the Fountain
Year: 1954

Director:
Jean Negulesco
John Frederick Shadwell: Why can't women play the game properly? Everyone knows that in love affairs only the man has the right to lie!
-- Clifton Webb (as John Frederick Shadwell) in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
Sitting Pretty
Year: 1948

Director:
Walter Lang
Lynn Belvedere: I am, in my way, a philosopher.
Harry King: Oh, I see, you just sit and think.
Lynn Belvedere: Mr. King, if more people just sat and thought, the world might not be in the stinking mess that it is.