23 Movie Quotes about Charity (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Jul 18, 2026

Memorable quotes about charity, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 Well, you realize if you give money to the poor, they won't be poor anymore, will they?

Ebenezer Scrooge; Scrooge Mcduck in Mickey Mouse

12 Are you running a business or a charity ward?

Lionel Barrymore in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

13 Hi, it's me. It's the holiday season and I thought I'd remind you that this is a season of charity and forgiveness.

Billy Crystal as Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally...

14 I don't think it becomes His Majesty to advertise his charitable donations.

Quote from A King in New York (1957)

15 Where did you learn to kiss like that? -I used to sell kisses for the Milk Fund.

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar; Tony Curtis as Joe in Some Like It Hot

16 Come on, let's face reality. I'm thirty-three, I'm living on the charity of my brother. Room and board free. Fifty cents a week for cigarettes. An occasional ticket to a show or concert, all out of the bigness of his heart.

Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

17 All right, it's charity. I'm begging you. Give me one. -Yeah, one. One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

Howard Da Silva as Nat; Ray Milland as Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend (1945)

18 You talk about give unto others. -Yes, but this food isn't yours to give. -That's church talk.

Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode; Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

19 Let's have a little Christian charity one for the other.

Quote from Stagecoach (1939)

20 Now, in these times, it was customary on Christmas Eve for well-meaning gentlemen to call upon businesses, collecting donations for the poor and homeless.

Quote from The Muppet Christmas Carol