Lew Moran: Time was you could take real pride, in just getting there, flying used to be fun Lou, it really was.
Frank Towns: He's crazy Lou, he builds toy airplanes.


--James Stewart (as Frank Towns) in The Flight of the Phoenix

Jeremy Baile: I don't like that man Cole.
Glyn McLyntock: Why not?
Jeremy Baile: I heard Grundy say he was a raider on the Missouri border.
Glyn McLyntock: Well, lots of people used to raid along the border.
Jeremy Baile: That kind can't change. When an apple's rotten, there's nothing you can do except throw it away or it will spoil the whole barrel.
Glyn McLyntock: Well, there's a difference between men and apples.


--James Stewart (as Glyn McLyntock) in Bend of the River

Jane: Are you a man or a mouse?
John Horace 'Johnny' Mason: A mouse!


--James Stewart (as John Horace Mason) in Made for Each Other

Chris Boldt: Well, you strike me as a man that's looking for something and willing to pay for it.
Will Lockhart: Well, that depends upon what the information is and who's selling it.
Chris Boldt: Well, I ain't got no references. But anybody can tell you that Chris Boldt is a man not to be trusted. That means nobody's secrets are sacred with me.
Will Lockhart: Uh, huh. And just who were you figuring on selling out?
Chris Boldt: You just name 'em!
Will Lockhart: It wouldn't be *me*, would it?


--James Stewart (as Will Lockhart) in The Man from Laramie

Wyatt Earp: Pick out a name and write it down.
Lin McAdam: All right if I use my own name?
Wyatt Earp: Some folks do.
Lin McAdam: Yeah... some folks do.


--James Stewart (as Lin McAdam) in Winchester '73

Wyatt Earp: That's Dutch Henry Brown. I thought you said you didn't know him.
Lin McAdam: I said I didn't recall the name.


--James Stewart (as Lin McAdam) in Winchester '73

Alfred Kralik: Now if I were a girl and had to choose between a young good-for-nothing with plenty of hair and a good, solid, mature citizen, I'd pick Mathias Popkin every time.


--James Stewart (as Alfred Kralik) in The Shop Around the Corner

Alfred Kralik: Pirovitch, did you ever get a bonus?
Pirovitch: Yes, once.
Alfred Kralik: Yeah. The boss hands you the envelope. You wonder how much is in it, and you don't want to open it. As long as the envelope's closed, you're a millionaire.


--James Stewart (as Alfred Kralik) in The Shop Around the Corner

Bill Smith: Grandma always puts me in my place.


--James Stewart (as ) in Come Live with Me

Bill Smith: I've had a poem running through my mind for a long time now. It's one that Christopher Marlowe wrote. It's... uh... well, listen.
[begins]
Bill Smith: Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove that hills and valleys, dales and fields, woods or craggy mountains yeild. And I will make ye beds of roses and a thousand fragrant posies...
[pauses]
Bill Smith: and... and... something, something, something, something...
[remembering]
Bill Smith: And if these pleasures do ye move, come live with me and be my love.


--James Stewart (as ) in Come Live with Me