LIST #3: The World's Top 10 Movie Quotes

1. Gone with the Wind (1939) Tearing down her mother's green velvet drapes, Scarlett O'Hara declares, "They're my portieres now, Mammy!"

2. The Women (1939) The Countess De Lave ("L'amour, l'amour") throws herself on a divan in despair: "Oh, la publicité, la publicité!"

3. The Philadelphia Story (1940) Main Line socialite Mrs. Lord to her slangy daughter Dinah: "Don't say 'stinks', dear. 'Smells' is quite an ugly enough word."

4. All About Eve (1950) Diva actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis) whirls on the stairs at her party: "Fasten your seat belt! It's going to be a bumpy night."

5. Niagara (1953) A young husband momentarily forgets his wife when Marilyn Monroe sashays dreamily into view in a skin-tight red dress: "Get out the fire hose!"

6. The Ten Commandments (1956) Returning to his palace after his army has been swallowed in the Red Sea, Pharaoh (Yul Brynner) darkly says of Moses, "His god is God."

7. Vertigo (1958) Kim Novak as the false Madeleine points her gloved finger at the growth rings of an ancient sequoia: "Here I was born, and there I died."

8. Ben-Hur (1959) A sheik lures vendetta-minded Ben-Hur to the brutal chariot race: "There is no law in the arena."

9. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Expiring from the ruthless heat, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) brings a lost Bedouin out of the desert and defies the Koran: "Nothing is written."

10. Mommie Dearest (1981) At a compulsory night class in aesthetics, Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) instructs her daughter to shun banal utilitarianism: "No wire hangers!"

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