Peter Ames: [to Melsa] You're up to your beautiful hips in murder!


--Henry Fonda (as Peter Ames) in The Mad Miss Manton

Peter Ames: Listen, before I knew you, I disliked you intensly. When I met you, I disliked you intensly. Even now, I dislike you intensly... that is, the sensible sane portion of me... but there;s an insane side of me that gets a little violent every time I think of you.
Melsa Manton: Getting out of a million dollar lawsuit wouldn't have anything to do with your change in affection, would it?
Peter Ames: You're a nasty creature, aren't you, but in time I'll beat it out of you.


--Henry Fonda (as Peter Ames) in The Mad Miss Manton

Peter Kirk: Are there many lady doctors?
Helen Hunt: A few.
Peter Kirk: As beautiful as you?
Helen Hunt: No doubt.
Peter Kirk: The time I've wasted being well.


--Henry Fonda (as Peter Kirk) in You Belong to Me

Peter Lapham: I'm going to kiss you like nobody was ever kissed!


--Henry Fonda (as Peter Lapham) in Daisy Kenyon

Pierre Bezukhov: [Before the Battle of Borodino] Such an enormous event! All our lives will be different from now on because of what is going to happen here tomorrow.


--Henry Fonda (as Pierre Bezukhov) in War and Peace (1956)

Pierre Bezukhov: I have sinned, Lord, but I have several excellent excuses.


--Henry Fonda (as Pierre Bezukhov) in War and Peace (1956)

Pierre Bezukhov: There are only two things in life that are really wrong: remorse and illness. When I've recovered from them both, I'll go out in the world again.


--Henry Fonda (as Pierre Bezukhov) in War and Peace (1956)

Pierre Bezukhov: You can't hate something you've never known or understood.


--Henry Fonda (as Pierre Bezukhov) in War and Peace (1956)

Robert Leffingwell: I'm an egghead. I'm not only an egghead, I'm a premeditated egghead. I set out to become an egghead and at this moment I'm in full flower of eggheadedness, and I hope to spread the spores of egghead everywhere I go.


--Henry Fonda (as Robert Leffingwell) in Advise & Consent

Robert Leffingwell: Son, this is a Washington, D.C. kind of lie. It's when the other person knows you're lying, and also knows you *know* he knows.


--Henry Fonda (as Robert Leffingwell) in Advise & Consent