Brandon Shaw:
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
Brandon Shaw:
Mrs. Wilson, champagne!
Kenneth: Oh, it isn't someone's birthday is it?
Brandon Shaw: Don't look so worried, Kenneth. It's, uh, really almost the opposite.
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
Kenneth: Oh, it isn't someone's birthday is it?
Brandon Shaw: Don't look so worried, Kenneth. It's, uh, really almost the opposite.
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
Brandon Shaw:
Of course, he was a Harvard graduate. That might be grounds for justifiable homicide.
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
Mrs. Atwater:
Do you know when I was a girl I used to read quite a bit.
Brandon: We all do strange things in our childhood.
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
Brandon: We all do strange things in our childhood.
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
Phillip Morgan:
Rupert only publishes books HE likes... usually philosophy.
Janet Walker: Oh. Small print, big words, no sales.
Brandon Shaw: Rupert's extremely radical. Do you know that he selects his books on the assumption that people not only can read but actually can think?
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
Janet Walker: Oh. Small print, big words, no sales.
Brandon Shaw: Rupert's extremely radical. Do you know that he selects his books on the assumption that people not only can read but actually can think?
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
Brandon:
The good Americans usually die young on the battlefield, don't they? Well, the Davids of this world merely occupy space, which is why he was the perfect victim for the perfect murder. Course he, uh, he was a Harvard undergraduate. That might make it justifiable homicide.
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
--John Dall (as Brandon Shaw) in Rope
