Sir William Walker: Gentlemen, let me ask you a question. Now, my metaphor may seem a trifle impertinent, but I think it's very much to the point. Which do you prefer - or should I say, which do you find more convenient - a wife, or one of these mulatto girls? No, no, please don't misunderstand: I am talking strictly in terms of economics. What is the cost of the product? What is the product yield? The product, in this case, being love - uh, purely physical love, since sentiments obviously play no part in economics.
[general laughter]
Sir William Walker: Quite. Now, a wife must be provided with a home, with food, with dresses, with medical attention, etc, etc. You're obliged to keep her a whole lifetime even when she's grown old and perhaps a trifle unproductive. And then, of course, if you have the bad luck to survive her, you have to pay for the funeral!
[general laughter]
Sir William Walker: It's true, isn't it? Gentlemen, I know it's amusing, but those are the facts, aren't they? Now with a prostitute, on the other hand, it's quite a different matter, isn't it? You see, there's no need to lodge her or feed her, certainly no need to dress her or to bury her, thank God. She's yours only when you need her, you pay her only for that service, and you pay her by the hour! Which, gentlemen, is more important - and more convenient: a slave or a paid worker?


--Marlon Brando (as ) in Burn!

Sky Masterson: [after Sarah slaps him] Well, that makes it necessary for me to stop in again. Matthew 5:39. Don't bother looking it up, it's the bit about the other cheek.


--Marlon Brando (as Sky Masterson) in Guys and Dolls

Sky Masterson: [reading a verse of the day card] "There is no peace unto the wicked. Proverbs" This is wrong
Sergeant Sarah Brown: Let's just say it's a matter of opinion, shall we?
Sky Masterson: I made a statement of fact. This is wrong.
Sergeant Sarah Brown: How dare you! Even if this is not a church, it is a mission! How dare you blaspheme!
Sky Masterson: How dare you misquote the Bible!


--Marlon Brando (as Sky Masterson) in Guys and Dolls

Sky Masterson: Daddy, I got cider in my ear


--Marlon Brando (as Sky Masterson) in Guys and Dolls

Sky Masterson: Figuring weight for age, all dolls are the same.


--Marlon Brando (as Sky Masterson) in Guys and Dolls

Sky Masterson: For two weeks I gambled in green pastures. The dice were my cousins and the dolls were agreeable with nice teeth and no last names.


--Marlon Brando (as Sky Masterson) in Guys and Dolls

Sky Masterson: General, on behalf of the former sinners of the future I would like to protest the closing of this mission.


--Marlon Brando (as Sky Masterson) in Guys and Dolls

Sky Masterson: I am not putting the knock on dolls. It's just that they are something to have around only when they come in handy... like cough drops.


--Marlon Brando (as Sky Masterson) in Guys and Dolls

Sky Masterson: It is my understanding that the Constitution of the United States allows everybody the free choice between cheesecake and strudel.


--Marlon Brando (as Sky Masterson) in Guys and Dolls

Sky Masterson: Look, the bells rang, they really rang. They weren't magical bells for lovers full of rum and music on a make-believe island; They rang to tell us what time it is.


--Marlon Brando (as Sky Masterson) in Guys and Dolls