The Magnificent Ambersons Quotes

George: "That’s my Uncle George.  Honorable George Amberson.  I thought everybody knew him."
Lucy: "He looks as though everybody ought to know him.  It seems to run in your family."


George: "Just look at ’em!   That’s a fine career for a man, isn’t it!  Lawyers, bankers, politicians!  What do they get out of life, I’d like to know!  What do they ever know about real things?  Where do they ever get?"
Lucy: "What do you want to be?"
George: "A yachtsman."


George: "I said all automobiles are a nuisance.  They'll never amount to anything but a nuisance.  They had no business to be invented."
The Major: "Of course you forget that Mr. Morgan makes them, and also did his share in inventing them.  If you weren't so thoughtless he might think you rather offensive."
George: "That would be too bad.  I don't think I could survive it."


Uncle George: "As an expert on prosperity, my career is disreputable, but as a prophet of calamity I deserve a testimonial banquet."


Uncle George: "Life and money both behave like loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks.  And when they're gone we can't tell where -- or what the devil we did with 'em!"

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