1. “Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends.”
2. “What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word, and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.”
3. “Dear Father in Heaven, I’m not a praying man, but if you’re up there and you can hear me, show me the way.”
4. Zuzu Bailey: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. George Bailey: That’s right, that’s right. George Bailey: Attaboy, Clarence.
5. “A toast to my big brother George, The richest man in town.”
6. “[running through Bedford Falls] Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!”
![George Bailey Quote: “[running through Bedford Falls] Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!”](https://bestquotesfrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/george-bailey-_running-through-bedford-falls_-merry-820x820.jpg "George Bailey Quote: “[running through Bedford Falls] Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!”")
7. “I wish I had a million dollars…hot dog!”
8. “Youth is wasted on the wrong people.”
9. George Bailey: [George hears a train whistle] There she blows. You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Uncle Billy: Uh huh. Breakfast is served; lunch is served; dinner… George Bailey: No no no no. Anchor chains, plane motors and train whistles.
![George Bailey Quote: “George Bailey: [George hears a train whistle] There she blows. You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?”](https://bestquotesfrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/george-bailey-george-bailey_-_george-hears-a-train-820x820.jpg "George Bailey Quote: “George Bailey: [George hears a train whistle] There she blows. You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are?”")
10. “You see, George, you’ve really had a wonderful life. Don’t you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?”
11. Mary: You look at me as if you didn’t know me. George Bailey: Well, I don’t. Mary: You pass me on the street almost every day. George Bailey: Me? Naw, that was a little girl named Mary Hatch, that wasn’t you.
12. “Why don’t you kiss her instead of talking her to death.”
13. “The key to a wonderful life is to never stop wandering into wonder.”
14. Mrs. Hatch: Who is down there with you, Mary? Mary: It’s George Bailey, mother. Mrs. Hatch: George Bailey? What does he want? Mary: I don’t know! [to George] Mary: What do you want? George Bailey: Me? Nothing! I just came in to get warm. Mary: [pause] He’s making violent love to me, mother!
15. George Bailey: I’m not very good at this Mary: Neither am I. George Bailey: Okay. What can we lose?
16. Clarence: No, we don’t use money in Heaven. George Bailey: Oh yeah, that’s right. I keep forgetting. Comes in pretty handy down here, bub!
17. “It’s deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace.”
18. “I’m a rich tourist today. How about driving me home in style?”
19. “No matter what happens, I’ll always say that I’ve had a wonderful life.”
20. “If it wasn’t me talking, I’d say you were the prettiest girl in town.”
21. “I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.”
22. George Bailey: Well, maybe I left the car up at Martini’s. Well, come on, Gabriel. Clarence: Clarence! George Bailey: Clarence. Right… Clarence.
23. Zuzu Bailey: I’m not sleepy. I want to look at my flower. George Bailey: I know I know, but you just go to sleep, and then you can dream about it, and it’ll be a whole garden. Zuzu Bailey: It will? George Bailey: Uh-huh.
24. “George Bailey, whose ship has just come in. Provided he has enough brains to climb aboard.”
25. “All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.”
26. “I’ve been saving this money for a divorce, if ever I get a husband.”
27. George Bailey: You know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Uncle Billy: Uh-huh. Breakfast is served, lunch is served, dinner… George Bailey: No, no, no, no! Anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles.
28. “Look, we’re still in business! We’ve still got two bucks left!”
29. “When you don’t know what you’re doing, fake it.”
30. [George has discovered his brother Harry’s tombstone] Clarence: [explaining] Your brother, Harry Bailey, broke through the ice and was drowned at the age of nine. George Bailey: That’s a lie! Harry Bailey went to war! He got the Congressional Medal of Honor! He saved the lives of every man on that transport! Clarence: Every man on that transport died. Harry wasn’t there to save them, because you weren’t there to save Harry.
31. George Bailey: How old are you anyway? Mary: 18. George Bailey: 18! Why it was only last year you were 17.
32. “This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.”
33. “You’re at your best when you don’t know what you’re doing.”
34. “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
35. “George, I am an old man and most people hate me. But I don’t like them either, so that makes it all even.”
36. “Love is why I came here in the first place.”
37. Little Violet: I like him. Little Mary:You like every boy. Little Violet: What’s wrong with that?
38. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
39. “I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I’ve also seen a whole lot of pain.”
40. “I wouldn’t live in it as a ghost.”
41. “I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.”
42. “What do you think I am, a dictionary?”
43. “This old thing? Why, I only wear it when I don’t care how I look.”
44. Mary: What do you want? George Bailey: Me? Not a thing. I just came in to get warm. Mary: He’s making violent love to me, mother!
45. “What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.”
46. “You look a little older without your clothes on.”
47. “You’re right when you say my father was no businessman. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I’ll never know. But neither you nor anyone else can say anything against his character.”
48. “You’ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you.”
49. “I think I got a date. But, uh, stick around fellows, just in case.”
50. “I’ve been working so hard for the past eight years and I’m tired – but I’m also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I’ve lived.”
51. “I know what I’m gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and next year, and the year after that.”
52. “Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel’s just got his wings.”
53. “I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend”
54. “And all’s fair in love and war.”
55. George Bailey: Now, come on, get your clothes on, and we’ll stroll up to my car and get… Oh, I’m sorry. I’ll stroll. You fly. Clarence: I can’t fly! I haven’t got my wings. George Bailey: You haven’t got your wings. Yeah, that’s right.
56. “Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.”
57. “You call this a happy family? Why do we have to have all these kids?”
58. “This is a very interesting situation!”
59. George Bailey: And all’s fair in love and war. Ma Bailey: Well, I don’t know about war.
60. “I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.”
61. “Well, I’ve got eyes haven’t I?”
62. “What’s a pretty girl like you doing marrying this two-headed brother of mine?”
63. Uncle Billy: [drunk] Where’s my hat? Where’s my hat? [George takes it off Billy’s head and hands it to him] Uncle Billy: Oh, oh thankyou, George. Which is mine? George Bailey: The middle one.
![Uncle Billy: [drunk] Where's my hat? Where's my hat?](https://bestquotesfrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/uncle-billy_-_drunk_-where_s-my-hat-820x820.jpg "Uncle Billy: [drunk] Where’s my hat? Where’s my hat?")
64. Mary: Remember the night we broke some windows in this old house? This is what I wished for. George Bailey: You’re wonderful.
65. Senior Angel: A man down on Earth needs our help. Clarence: Splendid. Is he sick? Senior Angel: No, worse. He’s discouraged.
66. George Bailey: This is a very interesting situation! Mary: Please give me my robe. George Bailey: A man doesn’t get in a situation like this every day.
67. “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. And when he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
68. George Bailey: Mary Hatch, why in the world did you ever marry a guy like me? Mary: To keep from being an old maid!
69. “But ideals without common sense can ruin this town.”
70. “Even I don’t know what you’re doing, and I know everything.”
71. “Isn’t it wonderful? I’m going to jail!”
