Quotes about Fights

Victor Laszlo: Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.

- Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo) in Casablanca (1942)

Susan Vance: What would you say about a man who follows a girl around and then when she talks to him, he fights with her?
Dr. Fritz Lehman: Is the young man your fiancee?
Susan Vance: Oh no. I don't know him. I never even saw him before today. No, he just follows me around and fights with me.

- Katharine Hepburn (as Susan Vance) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Helen: I don't understand you. No matter what you say. If Kane was my man, I'd never leave him like this. I'd get a gun. I'd fight.
Amy: Why don't you?
Helen: He is not my man. He's yours.

- Katy Jurado (as Helen Ramírez) in High Noon (1952)

Gracie Williams: Folks say you're no good, 'ceptin' for fighting and hell-raising.

- Joan Leslie (as Gracie Williams) in Sergeant York (1941)

Matt, as a boy: How did you know when he was gonna draw?
Thomas Dunson: By watching his eyes. Remember that.
Matt, as a boy: I will.
Thomas Dunson: Get a shovel and my Bible. I'll read over him.

- John Wayne (as Thomas Dunson) in Red River (1948)

Addison DeWitt: You could sleep now, couldn't you?
Eve Harrington: Why not?
Addison DeWitt: The mark of a true killer: Sleep tight, rest easy, and come out fighting.

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

T.E. Lawrence: The Law says the man must die... If he dies, would that content the Howitat?
Auda abu Tayi: Yes.
T.E. Lawrence: Sherif Ali. If none of lord Auda's men harms any of yours, will that content the Harith?
Sherif Ali: Yes.
T.E. Lawrence: Then I will execute the Law. I have no tribe and no one is offended.

- Peter O'Toole (as T.E. Lawrence) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

General Allenby: I fight like Clausewitz, then you fight like Saxe!
T.E. Lawrence: We should do very well, then, shouldn't we?

- Peter O'Toole (as T.E. Lawrence) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Cowardly Lion: Come on, get up and fight, ya shivering junkyard! Put your hands up, ya lopsided bag o' hay!

- Bert Lahr (as Zeke / The Cowardly Lion) in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

John D. Hackensacker III: That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

- Rudy Vallée (as J.D. Hackensacker III) in The Palm Beach Story (1942)