Quotes about Vanity

Sadie Burke: Be smart. Play square with him. You're gonna need people like us around.
Willie Stark: Are you sure?

- Broderick Crawford (as Willie Stark) in All the King's Men (1949)

T.E. Lawrence: The best of them won't come for money; they'll come for me.

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

Sherif Ali: What are you looking for?
T.E. Lawrence: Some way to announce myself.
Sherif Ali: Be patient with him, God.

- Omar Sharif (as Sherif Ali) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Bartender: [after Lawrence enters with a dirty Bedouin] This is a bar for British officers!
T.E. Lawrence: That's all right. We're not particular.

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

General Allenby: I believe your name will be a household word when you'll have to go to the War Museum to find who Allenby was. You're the most extraordinary man I've ever met!
T.E. Lawrence: Leave me alone!
General Allenby: What?
T.E. Lawrence: Leave me alone!
General Allenby: Well, that's a feeble thing to say.
T.E. Lawrence: I know I'm not ordinary.
General Allenby: That's not what I'm saying...
T.E. Lawrence: All right! I'm extraordinary! What of it?

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

Woman: What makes saloonkeepers so snobbish?
Banker: Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam.
Carl: Second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.

- S.Z. Sakall (as Carl) in Casablanca (1942)

T.E. Lawrence: A thousand Arabs means a thousand knives, delivered anywhere day or night. It means a thousand camels. That means a thousand packs of high explosives and a thousand crack rifles. We can cross Arabia while Johnny Turk is still turning round, and smash his railways. And while he's mending them, I'll smash them somewhere else. In thirteen weeks, I can have Arabia in chaos.

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

T.E. Lawrence: A thousand Arabs means a thousand knives, delivered anywhere day or night. It means a thousand camels. That means a thousand packs of high explosives and a thousand crack rifles. We can cross Arabia while Johnny Turk is still turning round, and smash his railways. And while he's mending them, I'll smash them somewhere else. In thirteen weeks, I can have Arabia in chaos.

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

General Allenby: You acted without orders, you know.
T.E. Lawrence: Shouldn't officers use their initiative at all times?
General Allenby: Not really. It's awfully dangerous.

- Jack Hawkins (as General Allenby) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Professor Henry Higgins: Would I run off and never tell me where I'm going?

- Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady (1964)