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Alcohol1 quote
Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whisky. Whiskey is a slap on the back and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes. — Macaulay Connor · 1940
Champagne1 quote
Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whisky. Whiskey is a slap on the back and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes. — Macaulay Connor · 1940
Clothing1 quote
You look a little older without your clothes on. — George Bailey · 1946
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if behind them they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too. — Jefferson Smith · 1939
Dad always used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes. — Jefferson Smith · 1939
Freedom1 quote
Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that. — Jefferson Smith · 1939
Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that. — Jefferson Smith · 1939
Mary, I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and next year, and the year after that. I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world. — George Bailey · 1946
Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again! — Jefferson Smith · 1939
Nakedness1 quote
You look a little older without your clothes on. — George Bailey · 1946
Whiskey1 quote
Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whisky. Whiskey is a slap on the back and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes. — Macaulay Connor · 1940