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From the British Royal Family to the Simpsons, we've always loved kooky families. Click on any family quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"A bit of talcum is always walcum."Source: Reflection on Babies | Author: Ogden Nash
"A boy's best friend is his mother."Source: Psycho | Speaker: Norman Bates
"A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet.""Source: Love Story | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"And that's how you play "Get the Guests.""Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Speaker: George
"Attica! Attica!"Source: Dog Day Afternoon | Speaker: Sonny Wortzik
"Baby, you're the greatest."Source: The Honeymooners | Speaker: Ralph Kramden
"Blood is thicker than water."Source: Ancient Proverb | Author: Unknown
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."Source: Still I Rise | Author: Maya Angelou
"Buongiorno, principessa!"Source: Life Is Beautiful | Speaker: Guido
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"Source: Little Women | Author: Louisa May Alcott
"Cut it out."Source: Full House | Speaker: Joey Gladstone
"Darlin' it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me!"Source: Under the Sea | Speaker: Sebastian the Crab
"Don't have a cow, man."Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Bart Simpson
"E.T. phone home."Source: E.T. | Speaker: E.T.
"Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Zuzu Bailey
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son."Source: National Lampoon's Animal House | Speaker: Dean Vernon Wormer
"Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife."Source: Gladiator | Speaker: Maximus Decimus Meridius
"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."Source: Gone with the Wind | Speaker: Rhett Butler
"Get out of my chair, Meathead."Source: All in the Family | Speaker: Archie Bunker
"Go home, Roger"Source: Sister Sister | Speaker: Tia and Tamera
"Goodnight, John Boy."Source: The Waltons | Speaker: The Waltons
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."Source: Anna Karenina | Author: Leo Tolstoy
"He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly."Source: Proverbs 13:24 | Speaker: Narrator
"Hey, brother."Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Buster Bluth
"Hey, HEY, hey!"Source: What's Happening!! | Speaker: Dwayne Nelson
"Hi, my name is George. I'm unemployed, and I live with my parents."Source: Seinfeld | Speaker: George Costanza
"I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"I have nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?"Source: Meet the Parents | Speaker: Jack Byrnes
"I need to know that I'm being heard."Source: The Comeback | Speaker: Valerie Cherish
"I think of myself as a man."Source: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Speaker: John Prentice
"I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics."Source: Manhattan | Speaker: Isaac Davis
"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters—two beautiful, intelligent, Black young women—playing with their dogs on the White House lawn."Source: 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech | Speaker: Michelle Obama
"I was born a poor black child."Source: The Jerk | Speaker: Navin R. Johnson
"I'll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got."Source: Raising Arizona | Speaker: H.I. McDunnough
"I'm a monster!"Source: Arrested Development | Speaker: Buster Bluth
"I'm an excellent driver."Source: Rain Man | Speaker: Raymond Babbitt
"I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Don Corleone
"I'm Larry, this is my brother, Darryl, and this is my other brother, Darryl."Source: Newheart | Speaker: Larry
"If the world would stop indulging wars and famines and other perils, it would be possible for human beings to embarrass each other to death."Source: The Hotel New Hampshire | Author: John Irving
"If you're a prince, there's hope for every ape in Africa."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Prince Geoffrey
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."Source: Arsenic and Old Lace | Speaker: Mortimer Brewster
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J. K. Rowling
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels."Source: Mrs. Dalloway | Author: Virginia Woolf
"It's a nice day for a white wedding."Source: White Wedding (Part 1) | Speaker: Billy Idol
"Jerome's in the house! Watch your mouth!"Source: Martin | Speaker: Jerome
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"Source: The Godfather: Part III | Speaker: Michael Corleone
"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try."Source: The Simpsons | Speaker: Homer Simpson
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Peter Clemenza
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."Source: Forrest Gump | Speaker: Forrest Gump
"Life is pain. Anybody that says different is selling something."Source: The Princess Bride | Author: William Goldman
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Peter Clemenza
"Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do."Source: I Love Lucy | Speaker: Ricky Ricardo
"Mama says, "Stupid is as stupid does.""Source: Forrest Gump | Speaker: Forrest Gump
"Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"Source: The Brady Bunch | Speaker: Jan Brady
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Speaker: Reverend Sykes
"Mom always liked you best."Source: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Speaker: Tommy Smothers
"My biological clock is ticking like this."Source: My Cousin Vinny | Speaker: Mona Lisa Vito
"My mama told me, "You better shop around.""Source: "Shop Around" | Speaker: The Miracles
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."Source: The Princess Bride | Speaker: Inigo Montoya
"No wire hangers!"Source: Mommie Dearest | Speaker: Joan Crawford
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner."Source: Dirty Dancing | Speaker: Johnny Castle
"Now cut that out!"Source: The Jack Benny Program | Speaker: Jack Benny
"Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife."Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Eleanor of Aquitaine
"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo"Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Author: James Joyce
"Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young."Source: Mildred Pierce | Speaker: Ida Corwin
"POW, right in the kisser!"Source: The Honeymooners | Speaker: Ralph Kramden
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"Source: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night | Author: Dylan Thomas
"Real courage is [...] when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me."Source: The Godfather | Speaker: Don Vito Corleone
"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining"Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
"Stifle."Source: All in the Family | Speaker: Archie Bunker
"Survey says!"Source: Family Feud | Speaker: Family Feud Hosts
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"The richest man in town."Source: It's a Wonderful Life | Speaker: Harry Bailey
"There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."Source: Pride and Prejudice | Author: Jane Austen
"There's no place like home."Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy
"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God | Author: Zora Neale Hurston
"This is no dream! This is really happening!"Source: Rosemary's Baby | Speaker: Rosemary Woodhouse
"This is the people's war!"Source: Mrs. Miniver | Speaker: The Vicar
"This thing called love, I just can't handle it."Source: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | Speaker: Queen
"We all need somebody to lean on."Source: "Lean on Me" | Speaker: Bill Withers
"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"Source: The Lion in Winter | Speaker: Katharine Hepburn
"What I do have is a particular set of skills."Source: Taken | Speaker: Bryan Mills
"What is your major malfunction?"Source: Full Metal Jacket | Speaker: Sgt. Hartman
"What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?"Source: Diff'rent Strokes | Speaker: Arnold Jackson
"With great power comes great responsibility."Source: Spider-Man | Speaker: Ben Parker
"Yabba dabba doo!"Source: The Flintstones | Speaker: Fred Flintstone
"You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."Source: "Building a Dream" in Oprah Magazine | Speaker: Oprah Winfrey
"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"You know it don’t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?"Source: The Glass Menagerie | Author: Tennessee Williams
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."Source: To Kill a Mockingbird | Author: Harper Lee
"You rang?"Source: The Addams Family | Speaker: Lurch