Harvey quotes

View Quote Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet: Is, is that Mrs. Frank ****mings? Doesn't she look ghastly, I thought she was dead. I must get a closer look.

View Quote Dr. Sanderson: Dr. Chumley, I'm afraid there's been a serious error --
Dr. Chumley: Dr. Sanderson, we don't permit errors in this institution.

View Quote Dr. Sanderson: Think carefully, Dowd. Didn't you know somebody, sometime, someplace with the name of Harvey? Didn't you ever know anybody by that name?
Elwood P. Dowd: No, no, not one, Dr. Maybe that's why I always had such hopes for it.

View Quote Wouldn't that get a little monotonous, just Akron, cold beer and 'poor, poor thing' for two weeks?

View Quote I'd just helped Ed Hickey into a taxi. Ed had been mixing his whiskey with his rye, and I felt he needed conveying. I started to walk down the street when I heard a voice saying: 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd'. I turned, and there was this big white rabbit leaning against a lamp-post. Well, I thought nothing of that, because when you've lived in a town as long as I've lived in this one, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name. And naturally, I went over to chat with him.

View Quote Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

View Quote I plan to leave. You want me to stay. Well, an element of conflict in any discussion's a very good thing. It means everybody is taking part and nobody is left out.

View Quote I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whoever I'm with.

View Quote I took a course in art last winter. I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting, and a mechanical thing, like a photograph. The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it. It's our dreams, doctor, that carry us on. They separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't want to go on living if I thought it was all just eating, and sleeping, and taking my clothes off, I mean putting them on...

View Quote Here, let me give you one of my cards. Now if you should want to call me, use this number. That - that's the old one. If you happen to lose the card, don't worry - I - have plenty more.

View Quote We talked like that for a while and then I said to him, 'You have the advantage on me. You know my name and I don't know yours.' And right back at me he said, 'What name do you like?' Well, I didn't even have to think twice about that. Harvey's always been my favorite name. So I said to him, I said, 'Harvey.' And, this - this is the interesting thing about the whole thing. He said, 'What a coincidence. My name happens to be Harvey.'

View Quote Oh, Myrtle, don't be didactic. It's not becoming in a young girl. Besides, men loathe it.

View Quote Wilson: Who's Harvey?
Miss Kelly: A white rabbit, six feet tall.
Wilson: Six feet?
Elwood P. Dowd: Six feet three and a half inches. Now let's stick to the facts.

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