Quotes about Money

Prince John: Any objections to the new tax, from our Saxon friends?

- Claude Rains (as Prince John) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Dr. Peter Blood: We, the undersigned, are men without a country. Outlaws in our own land and homeless outcasts in any other. Desperate men, we go to seek a desperate fortune. Therefore, we do, here and now, band ourselves into a brotherhood of bucaneers... to practice the trade of piracy on the high seas. We, the hunted, will now hunt! Therefore, to that end, we enter into the following Articles of Agreement: First: We pledge ourselves to be bound together as brothers in a life and death friendship, sharing alike in fortune and in trouble. Second Article: All monies and valuables which may come into our possession shall be lumped together into a common fund... and from this fund shall first be taken the money to fit, rig, and provision the ship. After that, the recompense each shall receive who is wounded is follows: for the loss of a right arm: 600 pieces of eight; left arm: 500; for the loss of a right leg: 500; left leg: 400.
Honesty Nuttall: [to Hagthorpe] A fella can get rich if he's lucky.

- Forrester Harvey (as Honesty Nuttall) in Captain Blood (1935)

Peter Warne: You know, I had you pegged right from the jump. Just a spoiled brat of a rich father. The only way you get anything is to buy it, isn't it? You're in a jam and all you can think of is your money. It never fails, does it? Ever hear of the word humility? No, you wouldn't. I guess it would never occur to you to just say, 'Please mister, I'm in trouble, will you help me?' No, that would bring you down off your high horse for a minute. Well, let me tell you something, maybe it will take a load off your mind. You don't have to worry about me. I'm not interested in your money or your problem. You, King Westley, your father. You're all a lot of hooey to me!

- Clark Gable (as Peter Warne) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Sugar: [on marrying well] I don't care how rich he is, as long as he has a yacht, his own private railroad car, and his own toothpaste.

- Marilyn Monroe (as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Little Bonaparte: [thick Italian accent] Thank you, fellow opera-lovers. It's been ten years since I elected myself president of dis organization... an' if I say so myself, you made duh right choice. Let's look at duh record: In duh lass fissel year we made a hundred an' twelve million dollars before taxes... only we ain't paying no taxes!

- Nehemiah Persoff (as Little Bonaparte) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Longfellow Deeds: [to the Court] From what I can see, no matter what system of government we have, there will always be leaders and always be followers. It's like the road out in front of my house. It's on a steep hill. Every day I watch the cars climbing up. Some go lickety-split up that hill on high, some have to shift into second, and some sputter and shake and slip back to the bottom again. Same cars, same gasoline, yet some make it and some don't. And I say the fellas who can make the hill on high should stop once in a while and help those who can't. That's all I'm trying to do with this money. Help the fellas who can't make the hill on high.

- Gary Cooper (as Longfellow Deeds) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

George Armstrong Custer: You may be right about money, Sharp; quite right. But there's one thing to be said for glory.
Ned Sharp: Yeah? What's that?
George Armstrong Custer: You can take glory with you when it's your time to go.

- Errol Flynn (as George Armstrong Custer) in They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

Harvey Greenfield: Julian, I feel insulted. It isn't as if I'm planning to stick ya.
Dr. Julian Winston: It isn't as if you're planning to pay me, either.

- Walter Matthau (as Dr. Julian Winston) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Bill Cole: You've been taken to the cleaners, and you don't even know your pants are off.

- Melvyn Douglas (as Bill Cole) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Bill Cole: The next time you're going to do anything or say anything or buy anything, think it over very carefully. When you're sure you're right, forget the whole thing.

- Melvyn Douglas (as Bill Cole) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)