Titanic quotes

View Quote Jack Dawson: [referring to Cal] Do you love him?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Pardon me?
Jack Dawson: Do you love him?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Well, you're being very rude. You shouldn't be asking me this.
Jack Dawson: Well, it's a simple question. Do you love the guy or not?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: This is not a suitable conversation.
Jack Dawson: Why can't you just answer the question?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: This is absurd. I don't know you and you don't know me and we are not having this conversation at all. You are rude and uncouth, and presumptuous, and I am leaving now. [starts shaking Jack's hand] Jack... Mister Dawson, it's been a pleasure. I've sought you out to thank you, and now I have thanked you.
Jack Dawson: And you've insulted me.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Well, you deserved it.
Jack Dawson: Right.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Right. [still shakes Jack's hand]
Jack Dawson: I thought you were leaving.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [turns to leave] I am. You are so annoying.
Jack Dawson: Ha, ha.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [turns back to Jack] Wait, I don't have to leave, this is my part of the ship. You leave.
Jack Dawson: Oh ho, ho, well well well, now who's being rude?

View Quote J. Bruce Ismay: So you've not yet lit the last four boilers?
Captain Edward J. Smith: No, I don't see the need. We are making excellent time.
J. Bruce Ismay: The press knows the size of Titanic, now I want them to marvel at her speed, too. We must give them something new to print. This maiden voyage of Titanic must make headlines!

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: Teach me to ride like a man.
Jack Dawson: [Southern accent] And chew tobacco like a man.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [Southern accent] And spit like a man!
Jack Dawson: What, they didn't teach you that while finishing school?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [chuckling] No!

View Quote [Jack teaches Rose how to spit]
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Mother! May I introduce Jack Dawson?
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Charmed, I'm sure.
Old Rose: [voice in off] The others were gracious and curious about the man who had saved my life. But my mother looked at him like an insect. A dangerous insect which must be squashed quickly.
Molly Brown: Well, Jack, it sounds like you're a good man to have around in a sticky spot-- [a bugler sounds the meal call] Why do they always insist on announcing dinner like a damn cavalry charge?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Shall we go dress, mother. See you at dinner, Jack.

View Quote Molly Brown: [helps Jack put on a tuxedo] I was right. You and my son are just about the same size.
Jack Dawson: Pretty close.
Molly Brown: You shine up like a new penny.

View Quote Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Tell us about the accommodations in steerage, Mr. Dawson. I hear they are quite good on this ship.
Jack Dawson: The best I've seen, ma'am. Hardly any rats. [everyone gently laughs]

View Quote Jack Dawson: [about his silverware dinner] Are these all for me?
Molly Brown: Just start from the outside and work your way in.

View Quote Colonel Archibald Gracie: All life is a game of luck.
Caledon Hockley: A real man makes his own luck, Archie. Right, Dawson? [Jack nods]
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: And you find that sort of rootless existence appealing, do you?
Jack Dawson: Well, yes, ma'am, I do... I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
Molly Brown: Well said, Jack.
Colonel Archibald Gracie: Hear, hear!
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [holds up her champagne] To make it count.
Everyone: [holds up their champaigns to Jack] To make it count! [Jack smiles, holds up his champagne and everyone drinks]

View Quote Jack Dawson: [dancing with Cora] I'm gonna dance with her now, all right? [looking at Rose] Come on.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: What?
Jack Dawson: Come on! Come with me.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Jack! Jack, wait! I can't do this.
Jack Dawson: We're gonna have to get a little bit closer. Like this. [looks at Cora] You're still my best girl, Cora.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I don't know this dance!
Jack Dawson: Neither do I! Just go with it! And don't think!

View Quote Caledon Hockley: I hope you would come to me last night.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I was tired.
Caledon Hockley: Your exertions below decks were no doubt exhausting.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I see you had that undertaker of a manservant follow me. How typical.
Caledon Hockley: You will never behave like that again, Rose. Do you understand?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I'm not a foreman in one of your mills that you can command. I'm you fiancee.
Caledon Hockley: My fian... My fiancee! (Upending the breakfast table out of the way in rage, breaking everything breakable) Yes, of course you are, and my wife. My wife in practice if not yet by law, so you will honor me. (Pushes his menacing face close to Rose) You will honor me the way a wife is required to honor a husband. Because I will not be made out a fool, Rose. Is this in any way unclear?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: No.
Caledon Hockley: Good. Excuse me.

View Quote Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Tea, Trudy!
Trudy Bolt: Yes, ma'am.
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: You're not to see that boy again Do you understand me? Rose, I forbid it.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Oh stop it, mother. You'll give yourself a nosebleed.
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: This is not a game! Out situation is precarious. You know the money's gone!
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Of course I know it's gone. You remind me every day!
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Your father left us nothing but a legacy of bad debts hidden by a good name. That name is the only card we have to play. I don't understand you. It is a fine match with Hockley, it will ensure our survival.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: How can you put this on my shouders?
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Why are you being so selfish?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I'm being selfish?
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: You want to see me working as a seamstress? Is that what you want? To see your fine things sold at auction, our memories scattered to the wind?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: It's so unfair.
Ruth DeWitt Bukater: Of course, it's unfair. We're women. Our choices are never easy.

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: Mr. Andrews, forgive me, I did the sum in my head, and with the number of lifeboats times the capacity you mentioned, forgive me, but it seems that there are not enough for everyone aboard.
Thomas Andrews: About half, actually, you miss nothing Rose, do you? In fact, I put in these new type davits, which could take an extra row of boats inside this one. But it was thought, by some, that the deck would look too clutered. So I was overruled.
Caledon Hockley: A waste of deck space as it is, on an unsinkable ship.
Thomas Andrews: Sleep soundly, young Rose. I have built you a good ship, strong and true. She's all the lifeboats you need.

View Quote [Jack stands outside on the bow of the Titanic, down in the dumps, until Rose arrives]
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Hello, Jack. I changed my mind. They said you might be out here -
Jack Dawson: Shhh. Give me your hand. Now close your eyes. Go on, now step up. Now hold on to the railing. Keep your eyes closed. Don't peek.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I'm not.
Jack Dawson: Step up. Hold on, hold on. Keep your eyes closed. Do you trust me? [opens Rose's arms]
Rose DeWitt Bukater: I trust you.
Jack Dawson: All right. Open you eyes!
Rose DeWitt Bukater: [gasps] I'm flying, Jack!
Jack Dawson: [starts singing] Come, Josephine, my flying machine, going up she goes, up she goes.
[They kiss passionately]

View Quote Old Rose: That was the last time Titanic ever saw daylight.
Brock Lovett: So we're up to dusk on the night of the sinking. Six hours to go.
Lewis Bodine: Incredible. There's Smith and he's standing there and he's got the iceberg warning in his ****ing hand, excuse me, his hand, and he ordering more speed.
Brock Lovett: Twenty-six years of experience working against him. He figures anything big enough to sink the ship, they're gonna see in time to turn. The ship's too big with too small a rudder. It doesn't corner worth a damn. Everything he knows is wrong.

View Quote Rose DeWitt Bukater: Cal insists on carting this hideous thing everywhere.
Jack Dawson: Can we be expecting him anytime soon?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Not as long as the cigars and brandy hold out. [shows Jack the diamond]
Jack Dawson: That's nice. What is it, a sapphire?
Rose DeWitt Bukater: A diamond, a very rare diamond. Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls. Wearing this...
Jack Dawson: All right.
Rose DeWitt Bukater: Wearing only this.