The Silver Screen Oasis

Perfect freedom has no existence. A grown man knows the world he lives in, and for the present, the world is Rome. Young Arrius, I am sure, will choose it.

Pontius Pilate Ben Hur

Harry Callahan: Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Dirty Harry -- Clint Eastwood

Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?

Beckett -- King Henry II -- Peter O'Toole

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Sunset Boulevard -- Norma Desmond -- Gloria Swanson

"You thief! It's men like you that make women afraid to wear underwear."
Speedy (1928)

“Between a jest and a joke, many a truth is told.”

-the cook after Chaucer (Pasolini) mocked his nose, Racconti do Canterbury (1972)

A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can't break the mold. I tried it and it didn't work for me.

Shane -- Shane -- Alan Ladd

“Honesty is the best politics” - Stan Laurel, Sons of the Desert

Unintentionally very relevant nowadays.

“There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie." Cecil Parker in Indiscreet

Arsan444 wrote: ↑December 8th, 2022, 9:59 pm “There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie." Cecil Parker in Indiscreet

You reminded me of one from Rex Harrison in the Yellow Rolls Royce:

“Oh, how I am going to hate living from now on.”

The completely broken and despondent way he says this after learning his wife has been unfaithful has stuck with me since I saw it.

Nothing in the world is so bad as something that is not so bad. From Scarlett Pimpernel (at one minute).

"I've got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals" - Butch Cassidy

What’s another word for engorged?

Round up the usual suspects.

A likeable but morally dubious character is redeemed in 5 words.

"Playing strip poker with an exhibitionist somehow takes the challenge away." -- Metropolitan (1990)