Matt Drayton: I'll be a son of a bitch.


--Spencer Tracy (as Matt Drayton) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Matt Drayton: Joanna, this may be the last opportunity I have to tell you to do *anything*, so I telling you, *shut up!*


--Spencer Tracy (as Matt Drayton) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Matt Drayton: What the hell is it today? Less than 12% of the people in this city are colored people. I can't even have a dish of Oregon Boosenberry without runnin' into one of them.


--Spencer Tracy (as Matt Drayton) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Matt Drayton: When I had ice cream before, I had a special kind of flavor that I liked very much but I can't remember what it was.
Carhop: I'll bring you the list, sir.
Matt Drayton: Oh no. You - you must know what it is.
Carhop: Daquiri Ice, Honeycomb Candy, Cocoa, Coconut, Jamocha Almond Fudge, Mocha Jamocha, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Cinnamon, Banana Mint...
Matt Drayton: Must've been some other place.


--Spencer Tracy (as Matt Drayton) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Mayor Frank Skeffington: One more regret at my age won't make much difference.


--Spencer Tracy (as Mayor Frank Skeffington) in The Last Hurrah

Narrator: [speaking about the Civil War] After Shiloh, the South never smiled.


--Spencer Tracy (as Narrator) in How the West Was Won

Narrator: The west was won by its pioneers, settlers, adventurers is long gone now. Yet it is theirs forever, for they left tracks in history that will never be eroded by wind or rain - never plowed under by tractors, never buried in compost of events. Out of the hard simplicity of their lives, out of their vitality, of their hopes and sorrows grew legends of courage and pride to inspire their children and their children's children. From soil enriched by their blood, out of their fever to explore and be, came lakes where once there were burning deserts - came the goods of the earth; mine and wheat fields, orchards and great lumber mills. All the sinews of a growing country. Out of their rude settlements, their trading posts came cities to rank among the great ones of the world. All the heritage of a people free to dream, free to act, free to mold their own destiny.
[final narrative from the film "How The West Was Won"1962 - narrated by Spencer Tracy]


--Spencer Tracy (as Narrator) in How the West Was Won

Pilon: I do not lead my friends around by the noses, senora. I only give them my good advice.


--Spencer Tracy (as Pilon) in Tortilla Flat

Pilon: Let's go down to the beach. The sky's a good place to sleep under. It is one roof that will never burn down, and it is one roof that will always be there when you wake up tomorrow.


--Spencer Tracy (as Pilon) in Tortilla Flat

Richard Sumner: I'll bet you write beautiful letters.


--Spencer Tracy (as Richard Sumner) in Desk Set