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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life quotes

66 total quotes

Clarence Oddbody
George Bailey
Mary Hatch
Multiple Characters




View Quote George: Mother...
Ma Bailey: Mother? What do you want?
George: Mother, this is George. I thought sure you'd remember me.
Ma Bailey: George who? If you're looking for a room there's no vacancy.
George: Oh, Mother, Mother, please help me. Something terrible's happened to me. I don't know what it is. Something's happened to everybody. Please let me come in. Keep me here until I get over it.
Ma Bailey: Get over what? I don't take in strangers unless they're sent here by somebody I know.
George: Well, I know everybody you know. Your brother-in-law, Uncle Billy.
Ma Bailey: You know him?
George: Well, sure I do.
Ma Bailey: When'd you see him last?
George: Today, over at the house.
Ma Bailey: That's a lie. He's been in the insane asylum ever since he lost his business. And if you ask me, that's where you belong.
View Quote George: Look here, Ernie, straighten me out here. I've got some bad liquor or something. Listen to me now. Now, you are Ernie Bishop, and you live in Bailey Park with your wife and kid? That's right, isn't it?
Ernie: You seen my wife?
George: Seen your wife? I've been to your house a hundred times.
Ernie: Look, bud, what's the idea? I live in a shack in Potter's Field and my wife ran away three years ago and took the kid. And I ain't never seen you before in my life.
View Quote Violet Bick: I'm glad I know you, George Bailey.
View Quote George: [gazing eyes with Mary] Well, well, well.
Freddie Othello: Now, to get back to my story, see?
[in a trance, Mary hands Othello her drink, and George and Mary start dancing]
Freddie Othello: Hey, this is MY dance!
George: Oh, why don't you stop annoying poeple.
Freddie Othello: Well, I'm sorry - Hey!
View Quote George: Well, you look about like the kind of angel I'd get. Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you? What happened to your wings?
Clarence: I haven't won my wings yet. That's why I'm an angel Second Class.
George: I don't know whether I like very much being seen around with an angel without any wings.
Clarence: Oh, I've got to earn them, and you'll help me, won't you?
George: Sure, sure.
View Quote [to Uncle Billy] Where's that money, you stupid, silly old fool? Where's the 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!
View Quote Tommy Bailey: Can you sing, Daddy?
View Quote Uncle Billy : Nobody ever changes here, you know that.
View Quote See George, you really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to just throw it all away?
View Quote How am I doing, Joseph? Thanks. No, I didn't have a drink!
View Quote George: What did you say?
Clarence: You've never been born. You don't exist. You haven't a care in the world. No worries –– no obligations –– no eight thousand dollars to get –– no Potter looking for you with the Sheriff.
George: Say something else in that ear.
Clarence: Sure. You can hear out of it.
George: Well, that's the doggonedest thing... I haven't heard anything out of that ear since I was a kid. Must have been that jump in the cold water.
Clarence: Your lip's stopped bleeding, too, George.
George: What do you know about that... What's happened? It's stopped snowing out, hasn't it? What's happened here? Come on, soon as these clothes of ours are dry...
Clarence: Our clothes are dry.
George: What do you know about that? Stove's hotter than I thought. 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 any wings.
George: You haven't got your wings. Yeah, that's right.
View Quote Well whaddya know about that!!!
View Quote There must be some easier way for me to get my wings.
View Quote Potter: [on the phone] George, there is a rumor around town that you've closed your doors. Is that true? Oh, well, I'm very glad to hear that... George, are you all right? Doyou need any police?
George: Police? What for?
Potter: Well, mobs get pretty ugly sometimes, you know. George, I'm going all out to help in this crisis. I've just guaranteed the bank sufficient funds to meet their needs. They'll close up for a week, and then reopen.
George: [to Uncle Billy] He just took over the bank.
Potter: I may lose a fortune, but I'm willing to guarantee your people too. Just tell them to bring their shares over here and I will pay them fifty cents on thedollar.
George: Aw, you never miss a trick, do you, Potter? Well, you're going to miss this one.
View Quote He's making violent love to me, mother.