Lynn Belvedere: Intoxication is a form of escape often sought by the mentally immature.


--Clifton Webb (as ) in Sitting Pretty

Lynn Belvedere: Mrs. King, as I told you last night, I dislike children intensely and yours, if I may say so, have peculiarly repulsive habits and manners.


--Clifton Webb (as ) in Sitting Pretty

Lynn Belvedere: Mrs. King, I happen to dislike all children intensely. But I can assure you that I can readily attend to their necessary though unpleasant wants.


--Clifton Webb (as ) in Sitting Pretty

Richard Sturges: [after a crewman plays a trumpet to announce dinner] Why do the British find it necessary to announce dinner as if it were a calvalry charge.


--Clifton Webb (as Richard Ward Sturges) in Titanic

Richard Sturges: [after Richard has rejected his son Norman when Richard discovers that he is not Norman's true father] As you pointed out, Norman and I began as strangers. So be it.
Julia Sturges: Oh, my poor Richard. How you hate me, and for the wrong reasons. Not because I committed an offense against common decency, but because Norman isn't an elegant extension of Richard Ward Sturges. For you what happened isn't a mortal sin, it's an inexcusable breach of etiquette.
Richard Sturges: Thank you, Julia. I stand reproved.


--Clifton Webb (as Richard Ward Sturges) in Titanic

Richard Sturges: [to Annette and Norman in their lifejackets] You two look fat and funny in those, sort of like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.


--Clifton Webb (as Richard Ward Sturges) in Titanic

Richard Sturges: We may be having sand for supper.


--Clifton Webb (as Richard Ward Sturges) in Titanic

Victor Parmalee: Jim, you're talking to me as if I were a man of honor... I'm not!


--Clifton Webb (as Victor Parmalee) in Boy on a Dolphin

Waldo Lydecker: [Scene deleted from theater version and restored in 1990] She was quick to seize upon anything that would improve her mind or her appearance. Laura had innate breeding, but she deferred to my judgment and taste. I selected a more attractive hairdress for her. I taught her what clothes were more becoming to her. Through me, she met everyone: The famous and the infamous. Her youth and beauty, her poise and charm of manner captivated them all. She had warmth, vitality. She had authentic magnetism. Wherever we went, she stood out. Men admired her; women envied her. She became as famous as Waldo Lydecker's walking stick and his white carnation.


--Clifton Webb (as Waldo Lydecker) in Laura

Waldo Lydecker: How singularly innocent I look this morning.


--Clifton Webb (as Waldo Lydecker) in Laura