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Film Quotes by Orson Welles

68 quotes
Prince of Foxes
Year: 1949

Director:
Henry King
Don Esteban: [after getting a shove from behind from Borgia] My Lord!
Cesare Borgia: My garden is filled with beautiful women and you stand here like a brooding nemisis!
Don Esteban: I was thinking.
Cesare Borgia: Good. Practice makes perfect.
[Walking away]
Cesare Borgia: You should listen though. You may learn something.
The Black Rose
Year: 1950

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Walter of Gurnie: Oh, how do we find your tent?
Bayan: Scholar, if any man in my army can't tell you where my tent is, our poetic young bowman can use him as a target.
-- Orson Welles (as Bayan) in The Black Rose (1950)
The Black Rose
Year: 1950

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Bayan: That's the only way you can ever sleep soundly, you know, when your enemy's sleep is eternal.
-- Orson Welles (as Bayan) in The Black Rose (1950)
The Black Rose
Year: 1950

Director:
Henry Hathaway
Bayan: Well, it's worth something to be willing to die for something.
-- Orson Welles (as Bayan) in The Black Rose (1950)
A Man for All Seasons
Year: 1966

Director:
Fred Zinnemann
Cardinal Wolsey: You're a constant regret to me, Thomas. If you could just see facts flat-on, without that horrible moral squint... With a little common sense you could have made a statesman.
-- Orson Welles (as Cardinal Wolsey) in A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Prince of Foxes
Year: 1949

Director:
Henry King
Cesare Borgia: [to Orsini] The great know only one law: the outcome justifies the act. Have you the stomach for greatness? The stomach and the appetite?
Prince of Foxes
Year: 1949

Director:
Henry King
Cesare Borgia: It is my belief that everything, even death, can be turned into profit.
Chimes at Midnight
Year: 1965

Director:
Orson Welles
Falstaff: We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.
Moby Dick
Year: 1956

Director:
John Huston
Father Mapple: Delight is to him who coming to day him down can say, "O Father, mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's. Yet this is nothing. I leave eternity to Thee. For what is man, that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"
-- Orson Welles (as Father Mapple) in Moby Dick (1956)
Mr. Arkadin
Year: 1955

Director:
Orson Welles
Gregory Arkadin: Baroness, a fool is a man who pays twice for the same thing.
-- Orson Welles (as Gregory Arkadin) in Mr. Arkadin (1955)