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Film Quotes by David Niven

47 quotes
The Prisoner of Zenda
Year: 1937

Director:
John Cromwell*W.S. Van Dyke
The Prisoner of Zenda
Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim: Fate doesn't always make the right men kings.
-- David Niven (as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim) in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Bachelor Mother
Year: 1939

Director:
Garson Kanin
Bachelor Mother
David Merlin: Of course he talks! Why, he can recite the first line of Gunga Din!
-- David Niven (as David Merlin) in Bachelor Mother (1939)
The Moon Is Blue
Year: 1953

Director:
Otto Preminger
The Moon Is Blue
David Slater: [about his ex-wife] She divorced me. Extreme cruelty - I hit her with a muffin dish.
Patty O'Neill: You didn't!
David Slater: *Stainless steel* muffin dish. Still warm from popovers. Right across the behind. Raised a welt that lasted for *weeks* according to her lawyer. I was never privileged to see it.
-- David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue (1953)
The Moon Is Blue
Year: 1953

Director:
Otto Preminger
The Moon Is Blue
David Slater: Don't you find I have a certain weird charm?
-- David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue (1953)
The Moon Is Blue
Year: 1953

Director:
Otto Preminger
The Moon Is Blue
David Slater: If more fathers had ripped more phones out of more walls, more daughters wouldn't get into trouble.
-- David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue (1953)
The Moon Is Blue
Year: 1953

Director:
Otto Preminger
The Moon Is Blue
David Slater: Now there's a man who's hard to please. He gripes when you're trying to be pure and he gripes when you're trying to be wanton.
-- David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue (1953)
The Moon Is Blue
Year: 1953

Director:
Otto Preminger
The Moon Is Blue
David Slater: Would you consider our friend to be a man of... principles?
Patty O'Neill: I certainly do. He is charming.
David Slater: Yes, but I am told that I am not entirely without charm, but I have no principles whatsoever.
-- David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue (1953)
Enchantment
Year: 1948

Director:
Irving Reis
Enchantment
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: There's no such thing as an empty room.
-- David Niven (as General Sir Roland Dane) in Enchantment (1948)
The First of the Few
Year: 1942

Director:
Leslie Howard
The First of the Few
Geoffrey Crisp: Mitch, what do really think I can get out of her?
Reginald J. Mitchell: Oh, two eighty five.
Geoffrey Crisp: [astonished] Two eighty-five? Mitch, this is 1927, not 1977!
-- David Niven in The First of the Few (1942)
A Kiss for Corliss
Year: 1949

Director:
Richard Wallace
A Kiss for Corliss
Kenneth Marquis: [to Mr. Archer] Cheer up, old fellow. If providence should bless you with a grandson, we'll call the little stinker Harry P. Marquis.
-- David Niven in A Kiss for Corliss (1949)