Pvt. William 'Texas' Pettigrew: Dying's a lot like being in love. You can't imagine it until its right on top of you.


--James Stewart (as ) in The Shopworn Angel

Ransom Stoddard: [looking into Doniphon's coffin, angrily] Where are his boots?
Undertaker: Aw, Ranse, they were brand new...
Ransom Stoddard: Give him back his boots!


--James Stewart (as Ransom Stoddard) in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Roger Hobbs: [about Katey's dancing partners] First an Albino and now a pygmy!


--James Stewart (as ) in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

Roger Hobbs: I'd be more religious if something wouldn't happen to that television set. Just praying that lightning would strike it, not the entire circuit, just our set.


--James Stewart (as ) in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

Roger Hobbs: There ought to be an un-Edison, an un-Thomas Alva Edison who un-invents things, and the first thing they ought to un-invent is that television.


--James Stewart (as ) in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

Rupert Cadell: [Phillip and Brandon have been arguing about strangling chickens] Personally, I think a chicken is as good a reason for murder as a blonde, a mattress full of dollar bills or any of the customary, unimaginative reasons.
Janet Walker: Well, now, you don't really approve of murder, Rupert? If I may?
Rupert Cadell: You may... and I do. Think of the problems it would solve: unemployment, poverty, standing in line for theatre tickets...


--James Stewart (as Rupert Cadell) in Rope

Rupert Cadell: After all, murder is - or should be - an art. Not one of the 'seven lively', perhaps, but an art nevertheless. And, as such, the privilege of committing it should be reserved for those few who are really superior individuals.
Brandon Shaw: And the victims: inferior beings whose lives are unimportant anyway.
Rupert Cadell: Obviously. Now, mind you, I don't hold with the extremists who feel that there should be open season for murder all year round. No, personally, I would prefer to have..."Cut a Throat Week"... or, uh, "Strangulation Day"...


--James Stewart (as Rupert Cadell) in Rope

Rupert Cadell: Brandon's spoken of you.
Janet Walker: Did he do me justice?
Rupert Cadell: Do you deserve justice?


--James Stewart (as Rupert Cadell) in Rope

Rupert Cadell: By what right do you dare to say that there's a superior few to which you belong?


--James Stewart (as Rupert Cadell) in Rope

Rupert Cadell: Did you think you were God, Brandon?


--James Stewart (as Rupert Cadell) in Rope