The best Quotes from The Shawshank Redemption

The best Quotes from The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Andy Dufresne
9
Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
5
A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
4
I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
3
You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.
Andy Dufresne
3
You're gonna look real funny sucking my dick with no teeth.
Captain Hadley
3
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
3
I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.
Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding
2
Uncle Sam. Reaching into your shirt and squeezing your tit till it's purple.
Captain Hadley
1
Andy Dufresne: "You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?"
Red: "No."
Andy Dufresne: "They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory."
Andy Dufresne
1
I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both.
Warden Samuel Norton
1
Son, six wardens have been through here in my tenure, and I've learned one immutable, universal truth: Not one of them born whose a-shole wouldn't pucker up tighter than a snare drum when you ask them for funds.
Brooks

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