Quotes about Money

Sophie Manetta: The poor things... they're so happy and so poor.
Mario Manetta: No, Sophie. Broke, yes, but they're not poor. We're poor. Come on, you'll cry later. The meter's running... the meter's running... what do I care if the meter's running? I could buy you and a hundred meters! Come on, let's take a vacation!

- Edward G. Robinson (as Mario Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Muriel Blandings: Jim, I wish you wouldn't discuss money in front of the children.
Jim Blandings: Why not? They spend enough of it!

- Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Connie Martin: Hey Sherry, how much does a Chief Petty Officer get?
Sherry Martin: Whatever he told you, just cut it in half.

- Ginger Rogers (as Sherry Martin) in Follow the Fleet (1936)

Esmond Sr.: Have you got the nerve to tell me you don't want to marry my son for his money?
Lorelei Lee: It's true.
Esmond Sr.: Then what do you want to marry him for?
Lorelei Lee: I want to marry him for YOUR money.

- Marilyn Monroe (as Lorelei Lee) in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Lorelei Lee: Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

- Marilyn Monroe (as Lorelei Lee) in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

D. B. Norton: You'll play your cards right and you'll never have to worry about money again.

- Edward Arnold (as D.B. Norton) in Meet John Doe (1941)

Fred Derry: You know what it'll be, don't you, Peggy? It may take us years to get anywhere. We'll have no money, no decent place to live. We'll have to work, get kicked around.

- Dana Andrews (as Fred Derry) in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Beverly Boyer: What ever happened to my rights as a woman?
Dr. Gerald Boyer: I'll tell you what happened to them. They grew and grew until they suffocated my rights as a man. Whoever said all men are created equal didn't anticipate a woman making $100,000 a year and spenidng it on swimming pools!

- James Garner (as Dr. Gerald Boyer) in The Thrill of It All (1963)

Mrs. Random: Is that all you know about him?
Susan Vance: No, I know that I'm going to marry him. He doesn't know it, but I am.
Mrs. Random: Now seee here, if you're planning to marry him on my money you're very much mistaken. I don't want another lunatic in the family. I've got lunatics enough already.

- May Robson (as Aunt Elizabeth Random) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Rene Picard: Twenty dollars. Twenty dollars for Miss Maybelle Merriwether.
Tony Fontaine: Twenty five dollars for Miss Fanny Elsing.
Dr. Meade: Only twenty five dollars to give?
Rhett Butler: One hundred and fifty dollars in gold.
Dr. Meade: For what lady, sir?
Rhett Butler: For Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
Dr. Meade: For whom, sir?
Rhett Butler: Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
Dr. Meade: Mrs. Hamilton is in mourning, Captain Butler. But I'm sure any of our Atlanta belles would be proud to...
Rhett Butler: Dr. Meade, I said Mrs. Charles Hamilton.
Dr. Meade: She will not consider it, sir.
Scarlett: Oh, yes, I will.

- Vivien Leigh (as Scarlett O'Hara) in Gone with the Wind (1939)