Charlie Dalton Quotes in Dead Poets Society (1989)

Neil Perry: [quoting Henry David Thoreau] "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

Charlie Dalton: I'll second that.

Neil Perry: "To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."

Charlie Dalton: [answering phone] Welton Academy, hello. Yes, he is. Just a moment. Mr. Nolan, it's for you. It's God. He says we should have girls at Welton.

[Keating stands on his desk]

John Keating: Why do I stand up here? Anybody?

Charlie Dalton: To feel taller!

John Keating: No!

[dings a bell with his foot]

John Keating: Thank you for playing, Mr. Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Neil Perry: So what are you going to do? Charlie?

Charlie Dalton: Dammit, Neil, the name is Nuwanda.

Charlie Dalton: I'm exercising the right not to walk.

Steven Meeks: I'll try anything once.

Charlie Dalton: Except sex.

[about joining the DPS]

Charlie Dalton: It'll help you get Chris!

Knox Overstreet: Yeah? How?

Charlie Dalton: Women swoon!

[Dalton rushes off to class]

Knox Overstreet: But why do they swoon?

[runs after Dalton]

Knox Overstreet: Charlie, tell me why they swoon!