John Galsworthy: 25 Movie Quotes with Audio

Movie quotes from works by John Galsworthy, ranked by user ratings. Listen online or download free MP3 and WAV clips.

1 What is it that gets loose when you start a fight and makes you what you think you're not? Begin as you may, it ends in this skin game.

Quote from The Skin Game (1931)

2 What have you got, gout? Oh, that's unfortunate I never get it. I have no disposition that way. Had no ancestors, you see. Just me own drinking to answer for.

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

3 Am I lucky to have no past, ma'am, just the future?

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

4 Now, look here, you've not had occasion to understand men like me. I've got the guts, and I've got the money and I don't sit still on it. I'm going ahead because I believe in meself. I've no use for sentiment and that sort of thing.

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

5 Well, bad words break no bones, and they're wonderful for hardening the heart. If it wasn't for a lady's presence, I could give you a specimen or two.

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

6 You're an obstruction, the likes of you. You're in my path. And anyone in my path doesn't stay there long or if he does, he stays there on my terms...

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

7 I buy land, and you don't like that. It threatens the view from your windows.

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

8 You seem to me a poor sort of creature that's bound to get left with your gout and your dignity. But of course, you can make yourself pretty disagreeable before you're done.

Edmund Gwenn as Mr Hornblower in The Skin Game (1931)

9 Skin game. When we began this fight, we had clean hands. Are they clean now?

Quote from The Skin Game (1931)

10 What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?

Quote from The Skin Game (1931)