Other Titles • It's a Wonderful Life (1946) • Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life • The Greatest Gift • Ist das Leben nicht schön? (1962)
Quotes from It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
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Clarence: Remember, George: no man is a failure who has friends.
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Little Mary: Is this the ear you can't hear on? [whispering in his bad ear] Little Mary: George Bailey, I'll love you 'til the day I die.
(35 votes)
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George Bailey: Just remember this, Mr. Potter: that this rabble you're talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?
(34 votes)
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George Bailey: [yelling at Uncle Billy] Where's that money, you silly stupid old fool? Where's that money? Do you realize what this means? It means bankruptcy and scandal and prison. That's what it means. One of us is going to jail - well, it's not gonna be me.
(31 votes)
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Nick: [ringing the cash register repeatedly] Get me. I'm givin' out wings.
(28 votes)
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Mr. Potter: [to George Bailey] Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You claimed you were going to go out and conquer the world. You once called me, "a warped, frustrated, old man!" Who are you but a warped, frustrated young man, crawling in here on your hands and knees begging for help. No securities, no stocks, no bonds. Nothin' but a miserable little $500 equity in a life insurance policy. You're worth more dead than alive.
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Nick: Hey look, mister - we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?
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Uncle Billy: After all, Potter, some people like George HAD to stay at home. Not every heel was in Germany and Japan.
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Nick: [slamming a bottle on the bar] That's it. Out you two pixies go - through the door, or out the window.
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George Bailey: Now, come on, get your clothes on, and we'll stroll up to my car and get... Oh, I'm sorry. I'll stroll. You fly. Clarence: I can't fly. I haven't got my wings. George Bailey: You haven't got your wings. Yeah, that's right.
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George Bailey: Well, maybe I left the car up at Martini's. Well, come on, Gabriel. Clarence: Clarence! George Bailey: Clarence. Clarence.
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[George has discovered his brother Harry's tombstone] Clarence: [explaining] Your brother, Harry Bailey, broke through the ice and was drowned at the age of nine. George Bailey: That's a lie! Harry Bailey went to war - he got the Congressional Medal of Honor, he saved the lives of every man on that transport. Clarence: Every man on that transport died! Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry.
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George Bailey: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary. Mary: I'll take it. Then what? George Bailey: Well, then you can swallow it, and it'll all dissolve, see... and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair... am I talking too much?
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Clarence: Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
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[George returns to the bridge where his nightmare began, hoping to bring back his old life] George Bailey: [praying] Clarence! Clarence! Help me, Clarence! Get me back! Get me back, I don't care what happens to me! Get me back to my wife and kids! Help me Clarence, please! Please! I wanna live again. I wanna live again. Please, God, let me live again. [it begins to snow again] Bert: [shouts] Hey, George! George! You all right? Hey, what's the matter? George Bailey: Now get outta here, Bert, or I'll hit you again! Get outta here! Bert: What the sam hell you yellin' for, George? George Bailey: You... [suddenly stunned] George Bailey: George... Bert… Do you know me? Bert: Know you? Huh. You kiddin'? I've been looking all over town trying to find you. I saw your car plowed into that tree down there and I thought maybe you - hey, your mouth's bleeding. Are you sure you're all right? George Bailey: What the... [licks the corner of his lip and checks his mouth with his hand] George Bailey: Ha, ha, ha, ha! My mouth's bleeding, Burt! My mouth's bleeding! Zuzu's petals... Zuzu... George Bailey: [checking his pocket] There they are! Burt, what do you know about that! Merry Christmas!
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Man on Porch: Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death? George Bailey: You want me to kiss her, huh? Man on Porch: Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people.
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George Bailey: You call this a happy family? Why do we have to have all these kids?
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Mr. Potter: Why, the whole town knows you've been giving money to Violet Bick.
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George Bailey: You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider. And... [turning to his aid] George Bailey: And that goes for you, too!
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Clarence: You've been given a great gift, George: A chance to see what the world would be like without you.
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Clarence: You see George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to just throw it away?
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Harry Bailey: A toast to my big brother George: The richest man in town.
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Zuzu Bailey: Look, Daddy. Teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
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George Bailey: Hey! Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter! Mr. Potter: Happy New Year to you... in jail.
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Annie: I been savin' this money for a de-vorce, if ever I get a husban'.
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Little Violet: [commenting on George] I like him. Little Mary: You like every boy. Little Violet: What's wrong with that?
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George Bailey: Well, you look about the kind of angel I'd get. Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you? What happened to your wings?
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George Bailey: Isn't it wonderful? I'm going to jail!
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George Bailey: [on Mary being caught naked in the bushes] This is a very interesting situation!
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George Bailey: Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!
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Clarence: Ohh, there must be some easier way for me to get my wings.
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George Bailey: I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that.
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Annie: Boys and girls and music. What do they need gin for?
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George Bailey: I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. Then, I'm comin' back here to go to college and see what they know. And then I'm gonna build things. I'm gonna build airfields, I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high, I'm gonna build bridges a mile long...
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George Bailey: Now you listen to me. I don't want any plastics and I don't want any ground floors. And I don't want to get married *ever* to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do.
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House owner: I mean Pottersville. Don't you think I know where I live? What's the matter with you? [He proceeds toward his house. George is completely bewildered] George Bailey: Oh, I don't know. Either I'm off my nut, or he is... [to Clarence] George Bailey: ... or you are! Clarence: It isn't me!
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Mary: He's making violent love to me, mother!
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