Lark Ingoldsby: [singing] "I'll list for my soldier/And follow my love..."
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: [interrupting] Now I know why they call you "Lark".
Lark Ingoldsby: [turning around] Were you there? Listening all the time?
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: You've grown up.
Lark Ingoldsby: A little.
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: I didn't know you could sing like that.
Lark Ingoldsby: You didn't know I was growing up either.
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Do you know what happened to this room?
Lark Ingoldsby: No.
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: It's full of light, sunshine and flowers.


--David Niven (as General Sir Roland Dane) in Enchantment

Lark Ingoldsby: We'll have seven children and a million pounds a year.
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: What was that?
Lark Ingoldsby: I was thinking when we were children. You've forgotten.
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Shouldn't I share your thoughts?
Lark Ingoldsby: We shall always be in love, won't we?
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Always.
Lark Ingoldsby: Even when we're old?
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Even when we're old.


--David Niven (as General Sir Roland Dane) in Enchantment

Sibyl Railton-Bell: Why have you told so many awful lies?
Major Angus Pollock: Because I don't like myself the way I am, i suppose. I had to invent someone else... It's not harmful really. We all have our daydreams. Mine have just gone a step further than most people.
[laughs ironically]
Major Angus Pollock: Sometimes I just manage to believe in the Major myself.


--David Niven (as Major Angus Pollock) in Separate Tables

June: [opening words, before faces shown on screen] Request your position. Come in, Lancaster. Come in, Lancaster.
Peter: Position - nil, repeat nil. Age - 27, 27, did you get that? Very important. Education - interrupted, violently interrupted. Religion - Church of England. Politics - Conservative by nature, Labour by experience. What's your name?


--David Niven (as Peter Carter) in A Matter of Life and Death

June: Received your message. We can hear you. Are you wounded? Repeat. Are you wounded? Are you bailing out?
Peter: What's your name?
June: June.
Peter: Yes June, I'm bailing out. I'm bailing out but there's a catch, I've got no parachute.


--David Niven (as Peter Carter) in A Matter of Life and Death

Mrs. Janet Archer: Well, um, well, it's all very silly, but the fact is that my daughter has written a - a sort of diary.
Kenneth Marquis: Indeed? Well, I'm confident that it reflects her girlish charms.
Mrs. Janet Archer: Well, um, this diary is, um ...
Kenneth Marquis: You are talking, I take it about that volume that your husband is clutching in his clammy hands?
Mrs. Janet Archer: Well, it's all quite ridiculous, and I'm sure you'll be the first to - Go ahead, Harry. Please read some of it to Mr. Marquis, and then he'll realize how crazy the whole thing is.
Harry P. Archer: [Reading] "Not all women know really great love. And so few can save the man they love from himself."
[clears his throat]
Kenneth Marquis: Doesn't read very fluently, does he?
Harry P. Archer: "Kenny-boy is so sweet. I'm lucky I found Kenny-boy in time." Kenny-boy is you!
Kenneth Marquis: Really?
Harry P. Archer: That's from my daughter's diary.
Mrs. Janet Archer: Silly, isn't it?
Kenneth Marquis: No, I like it.
Harry P. Archer: It's just schoolgirl romantic nonsense! But, there are reasons why we couldn't question Corliss.
Kenneth Marquis: Naturally, after your contemptible invasion of the privacy of her diary.
Harry P. Archer: It's none of your business what I do.
Kenneth Marquis: My name is mentioned.
Harry P. Archer: I'll burn every page. Only a fool would think there was any truth to this.
Kenneth Marquis: Every single word of it is true.


--David Niven (as ) in A Kiss for Corliss

Selina Dane: We'll be so proud of you: General Sir Roland Dane.
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: No. If I have to choose between my army career and Lark. I know which I want. I want Lark!
Selina Dane: You can't mean that.
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo: Believe me, I do.


--David Niven (as General Sir Roland Dane) in Enchantment

Abraham Farlan: You claim you love her.
Peter: I do love her!
Abraham Farlan: Can you prove it?
Peter: Well give me time, sir. Fifty years will do.
Abraham Farlan: But can you prove it?
Peter: Well, can a starving man prove he's hungry except by eating?
Abraham Farlan: Would you die for her?
Peter: I would, but, er, I'd rather live.


--David Niven (as Peter Carter) in A Matter of Life and Death

Anita Halstead: What if the parachute didn't open?
Tony Halstead: Darling, all parachutes are guaranteed to open. If it doesn't, they give you a new one.


--David Niven (as Tony aka The Great Arturo) in Eternally Yours

B.G. Bruno: Where did you meet him?
Janet Jones: What? Oh, we... met at a party, last winter.
B.G. Bruno: I understand he was in Egypt last winter.
Janet Jones: Well... Well, Cairo is in Egypt, isn't it?
B.G. Bruno: Oh yes. Been there a long time.
Janet Jones: Well, that's where we met. On the pyramids.
B.G. Bruno: On the pyramids?
Janet Jones: I mean... near the pyramids, just a little to the left.
B.G. Bruno: [puzzled] Little... er, left?


--David Niven (as B.G. Bruno) in Happy Go Lovely