“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation!”
– Rhett Butler to Scarlett in Gone With The Wind
Boy, it’s hard to pick just one Cohen Brother’s quote, much less a single movie quote.
- Raising Arizona* is made of them:
Ear-Bending Cellmate: …and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.
H.I.: You ate what?
Ear-Bending Cellmate: We ate sand.
[pause]
H.I.: You ate SAND?
Ear-Bending Cellmate: That’s right!
And later in the same movie, in the middle of an impromptu holdup:
H.I. - “Better hurry it up, I’m in dutch with the wife”
And after Eddie Dane gets his answer:
"You know what, yegg? I believe you. "
BAM!
There are several much better lines from that source:
**[Prince John](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856050/)**: Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!
Prince Richard: Let’s strike a flint and see.
**[Eleanor](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031/)**: I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled.
**[Eleanor](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000031/)**: What would you have me do? Give out? Give up? Give in?
Henry II: Give me a little peace.
Eleanor: A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now there’s a thought.
**[Prince Geoffrey](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0145284/)**: I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it.
[smiles]
Prince Geoffrey: We’re a knowledgeable family.
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist”
Keyser Soze/ Roger “Verbal” Kint
The Usual Suspects
And my all-time favorite, also from** Lion in Winter**:
Henry II: “I have blundered onto peace.”
Elinor of Aquitaine: “On Christmas Eve? How poetic.”
Henry: “Since Louis died I’ve had no wars to fight. I’ve had the time to pass a law, to make a tax more fair, to sit in judgement on which peasant gets a cow. I tell you, Elinor, there is nothing more important in the world.”
“And now Phillip is grown and I am sick of war.”
O’Toole’s delivery of the bolded line is just perfect.
Lifted, almost intact, for the end of My Blue Heaven.
Steve Martin’s mobster in hiding disdains handguns the whole film long, then in the crunch proves he’s a crack shot. Delivers a line much like Quigley’s, which I can’t bring to mind or find on IMDb.
From that film:
Vinnie: “Arugula! It’s a veg-e-table!”
Which reminded me, for not good reason, of one of Brian Cox’s greatest lines, from The Long Kiss Goodnight:
(Spoken to his wife, about her small dog.) "He’s been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour’s attention. I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge is either gone for good, or there to stay. Wouldn’t you agree? "
Wizards: Oh yeah… one more thing: I’m glad you changed your last name, you son of a bitch!
“Harry! Your hands are freezing!”
False apparently. From the wiki article:
In 1980, the book, The Golden Turkey Awards, claims that Lugosi’s character declares his manservant Lobo (Tor Johnson) “as harmless as kitchen” [sic]. This allegedly misspoken line is cited as evidence of either Lugosi’s failing health/mental faculties, or as further evidence of Wood’s incompetence as a director. However, a viewing of the film itself reveals that Lugosi said this line correctly, the exact words being, “Don’t be afraid of Lobo; he’s as gentle as a kitten.”
Charlie don’t surf!
The whole movie is a celebration of dialog. But I do like the “knives” quote in its entirety:
Eleanor of Aquitaine: “Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re all barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history’s forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can’t we love one another just a little - that’s how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.”
“I saved Latin!”
Marge Gunderson:
So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There’s more to life than a little money, you know. Don’tcha know that? And here ya are, and it’s a beautiful day. Well. I just don’t understand it.
Never said it. He did say he would “storm da castle” in it though.
Mine:
“Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up!”
Also, I would have quoted “This has got to be the stupidest person on the face of the earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.” I say this in real life all the time.
And, of course,
“Meow.”
Virtually the entire script of Casablanca is quotable.
My favorite from The Lion in Winter:
Great lines, all of them. 
“Nobody fucks with the Jesus.”
Son, you gotta panty on your head.
“Ok, you are now firing a gun at your ‘imaginary friend’ near 400 GALLONS OF NITROGLYCERINE!”
We need a smiley with a black eye.
I’ve searched this thread and I can’t believe I’m the first to quote this line from The African Queen.
“I now pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution!”