The best Quotes from Miracle on 34th Street

Which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

Bryan Bedford

If you can't believe, if you can't accept anything on faith, then you're doomed for a life dominated by doubt.

Kris Kringle

Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind... and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it.

Kris Kringle

Christmas

Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. Don't you see? It's not just Kris that's on trial, it's everything he stands for. It's kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles.

Fred Gailey

Bailiff: "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"
Kris Kringle: "Yes, but don't I put my hand on a Bible?"
Bailiff: "No, sir, you don't."
Kris Kringle: "Well, I'll put my hand on my heart instead."

Kris Kringle

Look Doris, someday you're going to find that your way of facing this realistic world just doesn't work. And when you do, don't overlook those lovely intangibles. You'll discover those are the only things that are worthwhile.

Fred Gailey

If you're really Santa Claus, you can get it for me. And if you can't, you're only a nice man with a white beard, like mother says.

Susan Walker

I believe... I believe... It's silly, but I believe!

Susan Walker

Now wait a minute, Susie. Just because every child can't get his wish that doesn't mean there isn't a Santa Claus.

Kris Kringle

By filling them full of fairy tales they grow up considering life a fantasy instead of reality.

Doris Walker

Fairytales

For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.

Kris Kringle

Susan, I speak French, but that does not make me Joan of Arc.

Doris Walker

Joan of Arc

Doris: "Would you please tell her that you're not really Santa Claus, that actually is no such person?"
Kris Kringle: "Well, I hate to disagree with you, but not only is there such a person, but here I am to prove it."

Kris Kringle

Mr. Collins, I hope you've taken down that old TV antenna. I ripped my pants on it last year.

Kris Kringle

Mrs. Mara: "Sometimes I wish I married a butcher or a plumber."
Attorney: "My dear, if I lose this hearing, you may very well get your wish."

Your Honor, every one of these letters is addressed to Santa Claus. The Post Office has delivered them. Therefore the Post Office Department, a branch of the Federal Government, recognizes this man, Kris Kringle, to be the one and only Santa Claus.

Fred Gailey

All my life I've wondered something, and now's my chance to find out. I'm going to find the answer to a question that's puzzled the world for centuries. Does Santa Claus sleep with his whiskers outside or in?

Fred Gailey

Charles Halloran: "All right, you go back and tell them that the New York State Supreme Court rules there's no Santa Claus. It's all over the papers. The kids read it and they don't hang up their stockings. Now what happens to all the toys that are supposed to be in those stockings? Nobody buys them. The toy manufacturers are going to like that; so they have to lay off a lot of their employees, union employees. Now you got the CIO and the AF of L against you and they're going to adore you for it and they're going to say it with votes. Oh, and the department stores are going to love you too and the Christmas card makers and the candy companies. Ho ho. Henry, you're going to be an awful popular fella. And what about the Salvation Army? Why, they got a Santa Claus on every corner, and they're taking a fortune. But you go ahead Henry, you do it your way. You go on back in there and tell them that you rule there is no Santy Claus. Go on. But if you do, remember this: you can count on getting just two votes, your own and that district attorney's out there."
Henry Harper: "The District Attorney's a Republican."

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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Natalie Wood

Men & Women Mother & Son

I am not afraid... I was born to do this.

Joan of Arc

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Joan of Arc

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

Joan of Arc

Not all lies are bad, just as the truth is not always good.

New Moon Luna in Epic Seven

Lies

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Rebecca Yarros in The Empyrean - Fourth Wing

Lies Truth

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski

Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol

Children & Childhood Christmas

We all remember the bed time stories of our childhoods. The shoe fits Cinderella, the frog turns into a prince, sleeping beauty is awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales, the stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories, the ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. It's the nightmares that always seem to become reality. The person that invented the phrase "Happily ever after" should have his ass kicked, so hard!

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 5 Episode 1

Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Fairytales

And the luscious sound swelled, reaching up to the skies.
And the Grinch heard with his heart, and it tripled in size.

The Grinch

Supervisor: "Attention, whoever you are, this channel is reserved for emergency calls only."
John McClane: "No f*cking shit, lady! Does it sound like I'm ordering a pizza?"

John McClane in Die Hard

True love lasts a lifetime.

Karen in Love Actually

You can be too old for a lot of things, but you're never too old to be afraid.

Old Man Marley in Home Alone

Do you believe in love at first sight? Me neither.

Sophie Brown in A Castle For Christmas

Love at First Sight

Every kid has that one gift they want more than anything for Christmas. This is the story of mine.

Jake Doyle in 8-Bit Christmas

Gifts & Presents

The best things in life aren't things at all.

Owen in A California Christmas - City Lights

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.

Conductor in The Polar Express

Faith

Bartender: "You ain't driving, are you?"
Santa: "I steer a little, but the reindeer do most of the work."

Santa Claus in Violent Night

Reindeer

It's been almost two days, and, what, no one's found me yet? I'm like unclaimed luggage.

Sierra Belmont in Falling For Christmas

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

Beast / Hank McCoy in X-Men - Erste Entscheidung

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