Quotes about Money

Phineas Whipsnade: You give me a pain in the neck. There's a guy that's gonna get a pile of dough the day he gets married and he's just beggin; you to take it.
Victoria Whipsnade : Well, I'm not interested!
Phineas Whipsnade: Oh! One sister and she has to be a half wit!

- John Arledge (as Phineas Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Hillbilly: All I want's my salary.
Larson E. Whipsnade: Glutton. Yes indeedy, yes indeedy. You'll get your celery, and olives, and mustard too!

- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Man: There's been a mistake in my change.
Larson E. Whipsnade: Ah, at long last, an honest man. Want to return some money?
Man: No, I'm short!
Larson E. Whipsnade: Don't brag about it. I'm only five-feet-eight myself.

- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Ida: Laughing boy seems slightly burned at the edges. What's eating him?
Mildred: A small green-eyed monster.
Ida: Jealous? That doesn't sound like Wally. No profit in it - and there's a boy who loves a dollar.

- Eve Arden (as Ida Corwin) in Mildred Pierce (1945)

Scarlett: But you are a blockade runner.
Rhett Butler: For profit, and profit only.
Scarlett: Are you tryin' to tell me you don't believe in the cause?
Rhett Butler: I believe in Rhett Butler, he's the only cause I know.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Ellsworth Toohey: I play the stock market of the spirit and I sell short

- Robert Douglas (as Ellsworth M. Toohey) in The Fountainhead (1949)

J. D. Hackensacker III: Tipping is un-American.

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

Yvonne: [Yvonne is drunk] Give me another.
Rick: Sascha, she's had enough.
Yvonne: Don't listen to him, Sascha. Fill it up!
Sascha: Yvonne, I loff you, but he pays me.

- Leonid Kinskey (as Sascha) in Casablanca (1942)

Colonel Hugh Pickering: I'll have you know, Doolittle, that Mr. Higgins' intentions are entirely honorable!
Alfred P. Doolittle: Oh, 'course they are, guv'nor. If I thought they wasn't, I'd ask fifty.
Professor Henry Higgins: [shocked] You mean to say you'd sell your daughter for fifty pounds?
Colonel Hugh Pickering: Have you NO morals, man?
Alfred P. Doolittle: Nah. Nah, can't afford 'em, guv'nor. Neither could you, if you was as poor as me.

- Stanley Holloway (as Alfred P. Doolittle) in My Fair Lady (1964)

George Bailey: Just a minute... just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was... why, in the 25 years since he and his brother, Uncle Billy, started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry away to college, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter, and what's wrong with that? Why... here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You... you said... what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well in my book, my father died a much richer man than you'll ever be!

- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)