Metropolitan Quotes

Audrey Rouget: People see the harm in what excessive candor can do.

Movie: Metropolitan
Charlie Black: Fourierism was tried in the late nineteenth century... and it failed. Wasn't Brookfarm Fourierist? It failed.
Tom Townsend: That's debatable.
Charlie Black: Whether Brookfarm failed?
Tom Townsend: That it ceased to exist, I'll grant you, but whether or not it failed cannot be definitively said.
Charlie Black: Well, for me, ceasing to exist is - is failure. I mean, that's pretty definitive.
Tom Townsend: Well, everyone ceases to exist. Doesn't mean everyone's a failure.

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Charlie Black: Thanks a lot. We shouldn't be long.
Cab Driver: Take as long as you like -- I'm leaving.

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Fred Neff: Men are dates, date substitutes or potential dates. I find that dehumanizing.

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Nick Smith: I guess you could say it's extremely vulgar, I like it a lot.

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Nick Smith: I've always planned to be a failure anyway, that's why I plan to marry an extremely wealthy woman.

Movie: Metropolitan