The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Quotes with Sound Clips - page 9

Memorable quotes from the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives, with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry)

4 more actors

, Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)

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81 I just don't like to be accepting handouts when we're broke. - Well, if that's it, you better get used to it, because I don't see how we're gonna get much fun on your 32.50 a week.

82 I saw them being tested. Some of them stood up to it and some didn't. But you got so you could tell which ones you could count on.

— Al Stephenson (Fredric March)

83 I spent a lot of time on my knees up there. -Praying? -Heh, yeah, that too.

— Fred Derry (Dana Andrews)

84 Look at my pants. -What about them? -Too big. Gives you an idea of what the war did to my waistline.

85 Oh, that's where I'm going now. Take a piano lesson. -Uh-huh. Take one for me.

86 Our maid took a night out three years ago, we haven't seen her since. But everything's all right because I took a course in domestic science. Even bought a cook book.

— Peggy Stephenson (Teresa Wright)

87 So you're gonna break this marriage up. Have you decided yet how you're gonna do it? You gonna do it with an ax?

— Al Stephenson (Fredric March)

88 That's a good idea. You'll get a good job someplace else. There are drugstores everywhere.

— Marie Derry (Virginia Mayo)

89 The thing that scares me most is that everybody's gonna try to rehabilitate me. All I want's a good job, a mild future, a little house big enough for me and my wife. Give me that much and I'm rehabilitated like that.

— Al Stephenson (Fredric March)

90 We've been having lectures in atomic energy at school and Mr. McLaglen, he's our physics teacher, he says that we've reached the point where the whole human race has either got to find a way to live together, or else... -Or else. -That's right. Or else.

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