Sam Marlowe Quotes in The Trouble with Harry (1955)

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share

Sam Marlowe Quotes:

  • Miss Graveley: How old do you think I am young man?

    Sam Marlowe: Hmm... fifty. How old do you think you are?

    Miss Graveley: Forty-two! I can show you my birth certificate.

    Sam Marlowe: I'm afraid you're going to have to show more than your birth certificate to convince a man of that.

  • [Discussing Jennifer's recently deceased husband Harry]

    Jennifer Rogers: You can stuff him, for all I care. Stuff him and put him in a glass case, only I'd suggest frosted glass.

    Sam Marlowe: What did he do to you? Besides marry you.

  • Arnie: How do rabbits get born?

    Sam Marlowe: Same way elephants do.

  • Sam Marlowe: Perharps I'll come back tomorrow.

    Arnie: When's that?

    Sam Marlowe: The day after today.

    Arnie: That's yesterday. Today's tomorrow.

    Sam Marlowe: It was.

    Arnie: When was tomorrow yesterday?

    Sam Marlowe: Today.

    Arnie: Oh, sure. Yesterday.

  • Sam Marlowe: I think, Captain Wiles, we're tangled up in a murder.

    Capt. Wiles: Murder. If it's murder who dunnit?

    Sam Marlowe: Who did it?

    Capt. Wiles: That's what I say, whodunnit?

  • Capt. Wiles: I fired three bullets. Three! One for the hunting sign, one for the tin can...

    Sam Marlowe: ...and one for the little man who's lying in the grave.

  • Sam Marlowe: You're not supposed to bury bodies whenever you find them. It makes people suspicious.

  • Capt. Wiles: Coming home from Madagascar once we had a fireman on board who hit his head on a brick wall and died two days later.

    Sam Marlowe: Where did he find a brick wall on board a ship?

    Capt. Wiles: Mmmm... that's what we always wondered.

  • Sam Marlowe: Didn't know you had such a pretty mother, Arnie.

    Arnie: You think she's pretty, you should see my slingshot.

  • Sam Marlowe: Let's get Harry and pop him in.

    Capt. Wiles: With hasty reverence.

  • Arnie: How come you never came over to visit me before?

    Sam Marlowe: I didn't know you had such a pretty mother, Arnie.

    Arnie: You think she's pretty, you should see my slingshot.

  • Sam Marlowe: All right. If I had my choice, I'd rather be thought a murderer than proved one.

Browse more character quotes from The Trouble with Harry (1955)

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share

Characters on The Trouble with Harry (1955)