Cary Grant Movie Quotes & Lines – 71 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Dec 31, 2025

Hear Cary Grant's (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) famous movie quotes with sound clips ready for download in MP3 and WAV formats.

1 Because you'll never be a first-class human being or a first-class woman until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty.

As C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

2 Is there a library in town? -Yes. -I suppose you wouldn't know where that is. -Well, roughly. My grandfather built it.

As C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

3 You're going to sell the True Love? -For money? -Sure. -To that fat, old rum pot?

Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn), C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

4 Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening. -Yeah, but I'm busy every evening.

Cary Grant as Capt. Cummings; Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

5 Yooo-oh! Bad echo.

As Johnny Case in Holiday (1938)

6 You don't smoke, do you? -No, I have tuberculosis. -Oh, thank heavens for that. After last night, my head couldn't stand it.

As Rigby Reardon in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

7 You went to work after the divorce, didn't you? -Well, yes, except for a brief interlude in a couple of alcoholic sanitariums.

Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn), C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

8 No, you're slipping, Red. I used to be afraid of that look. The withering glance of the goddess.

As C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

9 Ah, that's the old redhead. No bitterness, no recrimination. Just a good, swift left to the jaw.

As C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

10 Don't tell me you've forsaken your beloved whiskey and whiskeys? -No, no, no, no. I've just changed their color, that's all. I go in for the pale pastel shades now. They're more becoming to me.

Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn), C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) in The Philadelphia Story (1940)