Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim:
Fate doesn't always make the right men kings.
--David Niven (as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim) in The Prisoner of Zenda
--David Niven (as Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim) in The Prisoner of Zenda
David Merlin:
Of course he talks! Why, he can recite the first line of Gunga Din!
--David Niven (as David Merlin) in Bachelor Mother
--David Niven (as David Merlin) in Bachelor Mother
David Slater:
[about his ex-wife] She divorced me. Extreme cruelty - I hit her with a muffin dish.
Patty O'Neill: You didn't!
David Slater: *Stainless steel* muffin dish. Still warm from popovers. Right across the behind. Raised a welt that lasted for *weeks* according to her lawyer. I was never privileged to see it.
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
Patty O'Neill: You didn't!
David Slater: *Stainless steel* muffin dish. Still warm from popovers. Right across the behind. Raised a welt that lasted for *weeks* according to her lawyer. I was never privileged to see it.
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
David Slater:
Don't you find I have a certain weird charm?
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
David Slater:
If more fathers had ripped more phones out of more walls, more daughters wouldn't get into trouble.
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
David Slater:
Now there's a man who's hard to please. He gripes when you're trying to be pure and he gripes when you're trying to be wanton.
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
David Slater:
Would you consider our friend to be a man of... principles?
Patty O'Neill: I certainly do. He is charming.
David Slater: Yes, but I am told that I am not entirely without charm, but I have no principles whatsoever.
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
Patty O'Neill: I certainly do. He is charming.
David Slater: Yes, but I am told that I am not entirely without charm, but I have no principles whatsoever.
--David Niven (as David Slater) in The Moon Is Blue
General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
There's no such thing as an empty room.
--David Niven (as General Sir Roland Dane) in Enchantment
--David Niven (as General Sir Roland Dane) in Enchantment
Geoffrey Crisp:
Mitch, what do really think I can get out of her?
Reginald J. Mitchell: Oh, two eighty five.
Geoffrey Crisp: [astonished] Two eighty-five? Mitch, this is 1927, not 1977!
--David Niven (as ) in The First of the Few
Reginald J. Mitchell: Oh, two eighty five.
Geoffrey Crisp: [astonished] Two eighty-five? Mitch, this is 1927, not 1977!
--David Niven (as ) in The First of the Few
Kenneth Marquis:
[to Mr. Archer] Cheer up, old fellow. If providence should bless you with a grandson, we'll call the little stinker Harry P. Marquis.
--David Niven (as ) in A Kiss for Corliss
--David Niven (as ) in A Kiss for Corliss
