Film Quotes by James Stewart

Peter Carver: I don't like you!
Roger Hobbs: You little creep.

Hilary Price: How are you getting along with Vindicator, Mr. Burnett?
Sam Burnett: We're not gettin' along with him at all. He's a useless hunk of gristle and besides, he's lyin' on my blanket.

Marjorie Corder: Just what was it that you think you did wrong? You did think there'd be a crash didn't you?
Theodore Honey: Yes but what I should have done is offer my hypothesis to the captain in an orderly manner and let him make his own decision but I didn't do that. No, when they wouldn't listen to me I kept thinking about you lying dead in Labrador like that other stewardess and Miss Teasdale, and all the rest of them and I wasn't orderly at all. not at all and the lever was right th ere so I *keh* pulled it.
Marjorie Corder: Amd that seemed wrong to you.
Theodore Honey: Of course it seemed wrong. How is anybody going to take my work seriously if I go around doing things like that? you know they're saying that I'm crazy now? And I don't blame them.
Marjorie Corder: You don't mean that if you had it all to do again, you'd just let it go ahead and crash.
Theodore Honey: That's just the point, I'd probably do it all again.

Marjorie Corder: What happeend?
Theodore Honey: Nothing, nothing happened at all, my figures clearly said that the tail should fall off and the tail didn't fall off. It's 7% above my figure, it didn't fall off.
Marjorie Corder: Oh I'm sorry, what happens now?
Theodore Honey: I've been thinking about that on the way home, I'll go to the inquery and stand up and I'll explain my figures to a group of very angry men and they'll reject the whole thing. I'll sit down, I'll sit down and listen to them say that I'm insane because of what I did in Gander, and perhaps I am, I'm not sure you know. A wualified psychiatrist will testify to that, I talked to 3 of them this afternoon, no that was yesterday, wasn't it? They showed me a page of ink blots and asked me if it reminded me of elephants and tigers, I said no it didn't remind me of elephants and ti - they were just ink blots.

Monica Teasdale: But you had a chance to play God for a little while, why did you pick me out?
Theodore Honey: Oh but you ought to live, the work you do.

Dee Bishop: [incredulous] You robbed a bank? You, Mace?
Mace Bishop: Well, Dee, the bank was there... and I was there... and there wasn't very much of anybody else there... and it just seemed like the thing to do. Y'know, it's not like you didn't - something you never heard of. Lots of people rob banks for all sorts of different reasons.
Dee Bishop: [bemused] You just walked into a bank and helped yourself to ten thousand dollars 'cause it seemed like the thing to do?
Mace Bishop: That's about the way it was, yeah, as, as well as I can remember, yeah.

Dee Bishop: To tell you the truth...
Mace Bishop: Yeah, yeah, liars always start that way.

First Lt. Jim Gary: You're not gonna start a fire! Why don't you just send up smoke signals?
Marshal Guthrie McCabe: I can't spell.

Shorty: The law won't let you get away with this.
Glyn McLyntock: What law?

Sam Crandall: [Saying goodbye to John and Lucy as they leave on their honeymoon] Good luck! I hope the fish are biting.
John Michael Hardesty: [With a knowing smile] I was kinda hopin' they wouldn't be.