Jefferson Smith: If you thought as much as being honest as you do of being smart ... Diz: Honest? Why, we're the only ones wh...o can afford to be honest in what we tell the voters. We don't have to be re-elected like politicians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jefferson Smith: I hate to stand here and try your patience like this, but either I'm dead right or I'm crazy. Senator MacPhe...rson: You wouldn't care to put that to a vote, would you, Senator?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able ...to think about anything else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools,... But where my fish float by I bless their swimming And I like the people to bathe in me, especially women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them as... excellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers." The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For your God of dream or devil You will answer, not to me.... Talk about the pews and steeples And the Cash that goes therewith! But the souls of Christian peoples . . . Chuck it, Smith!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Dear Captain Smith,' the ghost replied, 'you've used me ungenteelly. The crowner's quest goes hard with me because I've acte...d frailly, And Parson Biggs won't bury me, though I am dead Miss Bailey.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bill: I think maybe you have to come up with excuses just to avoid the moment of truth. Lili: What?... Bill: In a word, Miss Smith, I think it's just possible you're a virgin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »