Stairway to Heaven Movie Quotes
Doctor Frank Reeves
A weak mind isn't strong enough to hurt itself. Stupidity has saved many a man from going mad.
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Conductor 71
One is starved for Technicolor up there.
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The Judge
Members of the jury, as Sir Walter Scott is always saying... In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and saints above; For Love is heaven, and heaven is Love. Will you please consider your verdict.
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[first lines]
Narrator
This is the universe. Big, isn't it?
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Chief Recorder
Don't you know that any slip must be reported immediately?
Conductor 71
I lost my head.
Chief Recorder
Not long in the service?
Conductor 71
I joined in the so-called Second Germinal of the so-called glorious French Revolution.
Chief Recorder
I see. Natural death?
Conductor 71
I lost my head.
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Peter
June, are you pretty?
June
Not bad.
Peter
Can you hear me as well as I hear you?
June
Yes.
Peter
You've got a good voice. You've got guts too. It's funny - I've known dozens of girls: I've been in love with some of them, but an American girl whom I've never seen and who I never shall see will hear my last words. That's funny. It's rather sweet.
Peter
June, if you're around when they pick me up, turn your head away?
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Abraham Farlan
You claim you love her.
Peter
I do love her!
Abraham Farlan
Can you prove it?
Peter
Well give me time, sir. Fifty years will do.
Abraham Farlan
But can you prove it?
Peter
Well, can a starving man prove he's hungry except by eating?
Abraham Farlan
Would you die for her?
Peter
I would, but, er, I'd rather live.
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Conductor 71
[On the Stairway to Heaven, passing by various statues representing important figures in history, points to a statue of Abraham Lincoln]
What about him?
Peter
Lincoln? No, it's hardly fair to drag him in. I don't believe *he'd* be prejudiced.
Conductor 71
Plato. How would you like to be defended by Plato? Nobody knew more about reasoning than Plato.
Peter
He was eighty-one when he died, he might be too old to think love important.
Conductor 71
You think so? Anyhow, Plato had very elementary ideas about love.
Peter
Besides, didn't he quote Sophocles when somebody asked him if he was still able to appreciate a woman?
Conductor 71
What did the old boy say?
Peter
Well, he said, uh, "I'm only too glad to be rid of all that. It's like escaping from bondage to a raving madman."
Conductor 71
[scoffs]
These Greeks, cold as their marble. Now, if he had been French... Richelieu, for example, irresistible at eighty. How *about* Richelieu?
Peter
No, I never liked him much in "The Three Musketeers".
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June
[opening words, before faces shown on screen]
Request your position. Come in, Lancaster. Come in, Lancaster.
Peter
Position - nil, repeat nil. Age - 27, 27, did you get that? Very important. Education - interrupted, violently interrupted. Religion - Church of England. Politics - Conservative by nature, Labour by experience. What's your name?
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Doctor Frank Reeves
Sir, may I bring you up to date? We are living in the 20th century, not in the 18th.
Abraham Farlan
May I bring you up to date, sir? We are not alive at all.
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Abraham Farlan
Child, where were you born?
June
In Boston Sir.
Abraham Farlan
Do you know this man?
June
I think so.
Abraham Farlan
You think so?
June
I only met him a few days ago.
Abraham Farlan
You hardly know him. How can you think you love him?
June
But I do love him.
Abraham Farlan
Nonsense my child.
Doctor Frank Reeves
I object. Council will withdraw the expression.
June
It's all right Frank. he's right. There's no sense in love.
Abraham Farlan
Wisdom still flowers in Boston.
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June
Boston.
Peter
Mass.?
June
Yes.
Peter
That's a place to be born, history was made there. Are you in love with anybody? No, no don't answer that.
June
I could love a man like you, Peter.
Peter
I love you, June. You're life and I'm leaving you.
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Doctor Frank Reeves
Ah, there's June. She walks in beauty, like the night... Only she's cycling and it's daytime.
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Conductor 71
After all, what is time? A mere tyranny.
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Peter
Don't be upset about the parachute, I'll have my wings soon anyway, big white ones. I hope it hasn't gone all modern, I'd hate to have a prop instead of wings!
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Peter
"Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage." Sir Walter Raleigh wrote that. I'd rather have written that than flown through Hitler's legs!
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Abraham Farlan
Be careful, doctor Reeves. In the whole Universe, nothing is stronger than The Law.
Doctor Frank Reeves
Yes, Mr. Farlan, nothing is stronger than The Law in the Universe, but on Earth nothing is stronger than Love.
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Doctor Frank Reeves
This is a court of justice, not of law.
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Peter
Look at her.
Bob
Holy smoke! She looks like a nice girl.
Doctor Frank Reeves
She is a nice girl.
Bob
Hardly your type, Skip.
Peter
I've fallen in love with her. Her accent is foreign, but it sounds sweet to me. We were born thousands of miles apart, but we were made for each other.
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[last lines]
[waking up after operation]
Peter
Hello.
June
Hello.
Peter
We won.
June
I know darling.
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Conductor 71
You are determined to get me into this... salade.
Peter
And what about the salad you got me into?
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Abraham Farlan
Your smile is not unattractive, sir. Did you use it to enamor this young American lady?
Peter
I love her sir.
Abraham Farlan
Answer the question.
Peter
Would you repeat the question? It, erm, had "enamored" in it.
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Conductor 71
[speaking with strong French accent]
Your time was up. But they missed you because of your ridiculous English climate.
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Conductor 71
Ah, these English! What is the good of kissing a girl if she does not feel it?
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Doctor Frank Reeves
The rights of the uncommon man must always be respected.
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June
Received your message. We can hear you. Are you wounded? Repeat. Are you wounded? Are you bailing out?
Peter
What's your name?
June
June.
Peter
Yes June, I'm bailing out. I'm bailing out but there's a catch, I've got no parachute.
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Doctor Frank Reeves
Tell me, do you believe in the survival of human personality after death?
Peter
I thought you said you read my verses.
[to June]
Doctor Frank Reeves
Do you?
June
I don't know, er, I'd never thought about it, do you?
Doctor Frank Reeves
I don't know, I've thought about it too much.
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Abraham Farlan
An American baby sucks in freedom with the milk of the breast at which he hangs.
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Peter
[to dead radio operator]
So long, Bob. I'll see you in a minute. You'll know what we wear by now - a prop or wings!
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Doctor Frank Reeves
Milord, I submit that this court is concerned with the life and death of Peter Carter and not with past history or present plumbing.
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Doctor Frank Reeves
[talking to Peter]
I've got bad news for you.
June
Then why the grin?
Doctor Frank Reeves
You're going with me.
June
Where to?
Doctor Frank Reeves
[talking to both June and Peter]
To my house, for two reasons, first I want to meet this chap next time he drops in and second I like a nice girl around the house and she only come to see me to borrow a book, and she's a slow reader
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Peter Carter
You've got good news for me, my friend.
Conductor 71
How did you guess?
Peter Carter
Well, you wouldn't try to entice me with this Philimor...
Conductor 71
Philidor!
Peter Carter
Philidor... if you had the right to conduct me anyway.
Conductor 71
True.
Peter Carter
Well?
Conductor 71
Speaking officially, I have good news for you.
Peter Carter
Good.
Conductor 71
You are to be allowed to appeal to the High Court.
Peter Carter
Splendid!
Conductor 71
The trial will be a full dress affair. Très chic!... in three days, to give you time to prepare your case.
Peter Carter
Better and better!
Conductor 71
Hmm... do not be too pleased.
Peter Carter
Why? Is there a catch?
Conductor 71
The prosecuting counsel. Of course, I am not permitted to offer advice or give a personal opinion but... phhht!
Peter Carter
Well, who is this prosecuting counsel?
Conductor 71
Be prepared!
Peter Carter
For what?
Conductor 71
A shock!
Peter Carter
Well, come on, tell me the worst. Who is it?
Conductor 71
Abraham Farlan!
Peter Carter
Come again?
Conductor 71
Abraham Farlan!
[With less of his French accent]
Peter Carter
Well, I never heard of him!
Conductor 71
No?
Peter Carter
Never in my life!
Conductor 71
He lives in Boston!
Peter Carter
I've never been in Boston!
Conductor 71
Massachusetts!
Peter Carter
I've never been there!
Conductor 71
Abraham Farlan died in Boston in 1775. Does that date convey anything to you?
Peter Carter
Lexington? Concord?
Conductor 71
Exactly! You are good at history. The American War of Independence.
Peter Carter
Oh, he was killed?
Conductor 71
By a British bullet!
Peter Carter
Oh, he might be, ah, prejudiced!
Conductor 71
Hmm, he hates your guts! And he hates the guts of every Englishman! And, particularly, he hates this little affair with a Boston-born girl!
Conductor 71
Oh! A BIG affair he will hate even more!
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Conductor 71
[71 has returned to give Peter the news on his request for an appeal against being "conducted" to the other world. 71 is looking at the book on chess that Peter was reading when 71 disturbed him: My Best Games of Chess: 1924-1937 by Alexander Alekhine]
This looks good.
Peter Carter
Very good. Do you know the author?
Conductor 71
No, but I often have a game with Philidor.
Peter Carter
Philidor?
Conductor 71
The greatest master of chess who ever lived. A Frenchman, naturellement! Come along and I'll introduce you.
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Doctor Frank Reeves
I doubt if you have more practical freedom in America than in England. An Englishman thinks as he likes in religion and politics.
Abraham Farlan
It isn't what a man thinks and says, it's when and where, and to whom he thinks and says it. A man with a flint and steel, striking sparks over a wet blanket, is one thing. But striking them over a tinderbox is another.
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Abraham Farlan
But Peter Carter's character, sir, like every other human being, has been formed by circumstance, by a chain of circumstances. As Benjamin Franklin said, for want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the message was lost. For want of a message, the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
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Conductor 71
She cannot wake. We are talking in space, not in time.
Peter
Are you cracked?
Conductor 71
Look at your watch. It has not moved since you said so charmingly, "Drink, darling." Nor will it move, nor will anything move, until we have finished our little talk. It is only a trick.
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Abraham Farlan
Do you see this glass? Out of it, Benedict Arnold drank the health of King George the Third. Does it break because it is faulty, or because it is glass? Can I tear this piece of paper because it is defective, or because it is paper?
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