9 Movie Quotes about Orchids (+ Sound Clips)

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

1 Isn't that remarkable that of all the orchids in this place, you should prefer the epiphytics. I wonder if you know why. -Maybe it would be helpful if you'd tell me. -Because, like the Negro, they need care, feedin', cultivatin'. And that takes time.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

2 Orchids, the finest you've got. -Corsage? -No. No. A dozen.

Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)

3 I took an orchid, and upon it I performed a miracle. I stripped a hundred thousand years of slow evolution from it and I had no longer an orchid, but what orchids will be a hundred thousand years from now. That's one there.

Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau in Island of Lost Souls (1932)

4 I guarantee to have orchids in her dressing room before her first number.

Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)

5 Who cares about the goddanged dance? -I do. I ordered your corsage. It's an orchid. It was, like, $12.

Megan Fox as Jennifer Check in Jennifer's Body

6 Good morning. I want to order three dozen roses, a corsage of orchids - say, about a half dozen - and send them to Madame Grosnay, 151 Avenue Victor Hugo.

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux

7 You see, I've managed to get hold of the spores of several unclassified wild orchids.

Peter Lorre as Hubert Schumacher in Back for Christmas (Suspense)

8 The South American Indians call them devil-flowers because they appear to bloom under the ground.

Peter Lorre as Hubert Schumacher in Back for Christmas (Suspense)

9 He's going to put some unclassified... wild orchids down there. A Devil's Garden if you please.

Peter Lorre as Hubert Schumacher in Back for Christmas (Suspense)

9 Movie Quotes about Orchids (+ Sound Clips)

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