65 Movie Quotes about Materialism (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

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

51 And that's all I need, too. I don't need one other thing! Not one... I need this. The paddle game and the chair, and the remote control and the matches, for sure!

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

52 You'd sell your heart and lungs for a handful of diamonds. And I'm doing a stretch with the rats and the bugs so you can have them.

Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

53 So all this is your famous collection, eh? -Oh, this is just my summer jewelry. You ought to see my winter stuff. -I see.

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

54 And now surely you have enough diamonds. -Oh, diamonds is my career.

Gilbert Roland as Sergei Stanieff; Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

55 You love her, eh? Well, she loves only money and diamonds. And let me tell you more about her...

Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

56 You care about nothing except money? -That's correct. I think of nothing except silver and gold, of course.

Quote from The Deadly Breaking Sword (1979)

57 They'll tell you money isn't everything. Well, maybe it isn't, but, boy, how it helps.

Virginia Mayo as Marie Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

58 You mean it pleases your disgusting feminine vanity to have him on a string. A spaniel would do just as well. -Spaniels don't have nice comfortable Bentleys, do they? -Perhaps you've got something there.

Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig in Dead of Night (1945)

59 Well, I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I'd find. Instead of a heart, a handbag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect a cigarette lighter which doesn't work.

Margaret Sullavan as Klara Novak in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

60 Nice little ring, isn't it? I had a little luck last night, too. Real diamond. My grandma gave it to me. That's what you get when you're a good boy. Some boys get red apples, I get diamonds. Good one? -Yeah.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)