When Harry Met Sally (1989) · 66 quotes
5th most-quoted character in When Harry Met Sally (1989): in 5 of its 66 quotes
Most scenes with: Woman (4)
Man A man came to me and said, 'I found nice girl for you. She lives in the next village, and she is ready for marriage.' We were not supposed to meet until the wedding. But I wanted to make sure, so I sneak into her village, hid behind a tree, watch her washing the clothes. I think, if I don't like the way she looks, I don't marry her. But she look really nice to me. So I said OK to the man, we get married. We are married for fifty-five years.
We fell in love in high school.
Man Yeah, we were high school sweethearts.
But then after our junior year, his parents moved away.
Man But I never forgot her.
He never forgot me.
Man No, her face was burned on my brain. And it was thirty-four years later that I was walking down Broadway and I saw her come out of Toffinetti's.
And we both looked at each other, and it was just as though not a single day had gone by.
Man She was just as beautiful as she was at sixteen.
He was just the same. He looked exactly the same.
Man We were married forty years ago. We were married three years, we got a divorce. Then I married Margerie.
But first you lived with Barbara.
Man Right, Barbara. But I didn't marry Barbara I married Margerie.
Then he got a divorce.
Man Right, then I married Kitty.
Another divorce.
Man Then a couple of years later at Atticalicio's funeral, I ran into her. I was with some girl I don't even remember.
Roberta.
Man Right, Roberta. But I couldn't take my eyes off you. I remember I snuck over to her and I said... What did I say?
You said, "What are you doing after?"
Man Right. So I ditched Roberta, we go for a coffee, a month later we were married.
Thirty five years today after our first marriage.
Man We were both born in the same hospital.
Nineteen twenty one.
Man Seven days apart.
In the same hospital.
Man We both grew up one block away from each other.
We both lived in tenements.
Man On the lower east side.
On Delancey Street.
Man My family moved to the Bronx when I was ten.
He lived on Fordham Road.
Man Hers moved when she was eleven.
I lived on a hundred and eighty third Street.
Man For six years she worked on the fifteenth floor as a nurse where I had a practice on the fourteenth floor in the very same building.
I worked for a very prominent neurologist. We never met.
Man Never met.
Can you imagine that?
Man You know where we met? In an elevator. In the Ambassador Hotel, in Chicago, Illinois.
I was visiting family. He was on the third floor I was on the twelve.
Man I rode up nine extra floors just to keep talking to her.
Nine extra floors.
He was a head counselor at the boys' camp, and I was a head counselor at the girls' camp. And they had a social one night. And he walked across the room. I thought he was coming to talk to my friend Maxine, because people were always crossing rooms to talk to Maxine, but he was coming to talk to me. And he said -
Man I'm Ben Small of the Coney Island Smalls.
At that moment, I knew. I knew the way you know about a good melon.
