Quotes about Proposals

Jonathan Forbes: Marry me and I'll smother you with private phones!

- Tony Randall (as Jonathan Forbes) in Pillow Talk (1959)

Grandpa Vanderhoff: When I was courting your grandmother, it took me two years to propose. You know why? The moment she walked into a room my knees buckled, blood would rush up into my head and the walls would start to dance. Twice I keeled over in a dead faint.

- Lionel Barrymore (as Martin Vanderhof) in You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Charles J. Pendergast: How about Saturday afternoon? I'll apply for the license tomorrow. Why, we could be back at work bright and early Monday morning!

- Richard Gaines (as Charles J. Pendergast) in The More the Merrier (1943)

Joe Carter: You asked me if I was afraid to get married. I'm not afraid. I mean... will you marry me? I want to marry you Connie.

- Joel McCrea (as Joe Carter) in The More the Merrier (1943)

Rhett Butler: Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett. I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it? Can it be love?
Scarlett: Get up off your knees! I don't like your common jokes!
Rhett Butler: This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

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

Longfellow Deeds: I've tramped the earth with hopeless beat, Searching in vain for a glimpse of you. Then heaven thrust you at my very feet, A lovely angel, too lovely to woo. My dream has been answered, but my life’s just as bleak. I'm handcuffed and speechless, in your presence divine. For my heart longs to cry out, if it only could speak. I love you, my angel, be mine, be mine.

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

'Maxim' de Winter: I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

- Laurence Olivier in Rebecca (1940)

Dr. Hackenbush: Ah -- I knew your mother very well. I'll let you in on a little secret. Many, many years ago in the dear, dim past, I proposed to your mother.
Judy: But that's my father!
Dr. Hackenbush: No wonder he turned me down.

- Groucho Marx (as Dr. Hackenbush) in A Day at the Races (1937)

Gaston Lachaille: May I come in?
Madame Alvarez: Please, Gaston... no papers... no scandal.
Gaston Lachaille: Madame, will you do me the honour, the favour... give me the infinite joy of bestowing on me... Gigi's hand in marriage?
Madame Alvarez: Thank Heaven!

- Hermione Gingold (as Madame Alvarez) in Gigi (1958)

Guy Holden: Can I offer you anything? Frosted chocolate? Cointreau? Benedictine? Marriage?
Mimi Glossop: What was that last one?
Guy Holden: Benedictine?
Mimi Glossop: No, the one after that.
Guy Holden: Oh, marriage?
Mimi Glossop: Do you always propose marriage as casually as that?
Guy Holden: There is nothing casual about it. In fact, I've given it long and sincere thought.

- Fred Astaire (as Guy Holden) in The Gay Divorcee (1934)