A Bridge Too Far

(21 votes)   Colonel Nicholson: Queer bird... even for an American.


The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957

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(19 votes)   Bill Burke: Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing - Teddy Roosevelt.


Bridge to Terabithia 2007

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(19 votes)   Leslie Burke: I seriously do not think God goes around damning people to hell.
Jesse Aarons: Why not?
Leslie Burke: He's too busy making all this!


Bridge to Terabithia 2007

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(18 votes)   [an SS officer is approaching under a white flag]
Major Harry Carlyle: Rather interesting development, sir.
[to the German]
Major Harry Carlyle: That's far enough! We can hear you from there!
SS Panzer Officer: My general says there is no point in continuing this fighting! He wishes to discuss terms of a surrender!
Major Harry Carlyle: Shall I answer him, sir?
Lt. Col. John Frost: Tell him to go to hell.
Major Harry Carlyle: We haven't the proper facilities to take you all prisoner! Sorry!
SS Panzer Officer: [confused] What?
Major Harry Carlyle: We'd like to, but we can't accept your surrender! Was there anything else?
[German officer walks off]
Lt. Col. John Frost: Well, that's that.
[the officer returns to General Bittrich, and they converse in German]
SS Panzer Officer: They rejected our surrender offer. What are your orders, Herr General?
Lt. General Bittrich: Flatten Arnhem.


A Bridge Too Far 1977

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(12 votes)   Colonel Nicholson: One day the war will be over. And I hope that the people that use this bridge in years to come will remember how it was built and who built it. Not a gang of slaves, but soldiers, British soldiers, Clipton, even in captivity.


The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957

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(9 votes)   Jesse Aarons: [crying] Is it like the Bible says? Is she going to Hell?
Jack Aarons: I don't know everything about God, but I do know he's not going to send that little girl to Hell.
Jesse Aarons: [sobs] Then I'm going to Hell, because it's all my fault.
Jack Aarons: Don't you think that, even for a minute.


Bridge to Terabithia 2007

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(9 votes)   Leslie Burke: We rule Terabithia, and nothing crushes us!


Bridge to Terabithia 2007

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(8 votes)   May Belle Aarons: I want my Twinkies, Janice Avery!
Janice Avery: What Twinkies, Twinkie?


Bridge to Terabithia 2007

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(8 votes)   SSgt. Eddie Dohun: Where's the captain?
Soldier: Dead.
SSgt. Eddie Dohun: Didn't ask you how he was. I asked you where he was.


A Bridge Too Far 1977

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(7 votes)   Commander Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs?
Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization.
Commander Shears: That's just my point; here, there is no civilization.
Colonel Nicholson: Then we have the opportunity to introduce it.


The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957

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(45 votes)   Ben Rubin: Our conversation was so fluent. I felt like I'd known her for all my days.


Across the Bridge 2005

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(35 votes)   Capt. Glass: My problem is, I'm not totally crazy about the prospect of dying.
SSgt. Eddie Dohun: So don't die. Drinking that garbage isn't gonna keep you alive, is it?
Capt. Glass: What is?
SSgt. Eddie Dohun: What is? Well, not gettin' shot.
Capt. Glass: What can guarantee that?
SSgt. Eddie Dohun: Nothing, for sure.
Capt. Glass: You will.
SSgt. Eddie Dohun: I will what?
Capt. Glass: You tell me, Eddie. You tell me I won't die.
SSgt. Eddie Dohun: Alright, you won't die.
Capt. Glass: No, no. Guarantee me. I want you to guarantee me I won't die.
SSgt. Eddie Dohun: [seriously] I guarantee you.


A Bridge Too Far 1977

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(33 votes)   Col. Robert Stout: Could you get a message down to XXXth Corps on that dingus?
Radio Operator: Yes, sir. Uh, we just got word from the 82nd up ahead. They captured the Graves bridge completely intact!
Col. Robert Stout: Aw, that's terrrific. Except XXXth Corps ain't about to reach the godam intact Graves bridge until the godam Son bridge gets fixed. Tell our British cousins to hustle up some Bailey stuff.
Radio Operator: Yes, sir.
Col. Robert Stout: I'll meet 'em in Eindoven when they get there. Tell those schmucks to do this right and have their Bailey stuff at the front of their column. Got that?
Radio Operator: Yes, sir.
Col. Robert Stout: And be sure to say please.
Radio Operator: Yes, sir.


A Bridge Too Far 1977

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(31 votes)   Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: Remember what the general said. We're the cavalry. It would be bad form to arrive early; in the nick of time would do nicely.


A Bridge Too Far 1977

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(30 votes)   Lt. Colonel J.O.E. Vandeleur: Remember what the general said; we're the cavalry. It would be bad form to arrive in advance of schedule. In the nick of time would do nicely.


A Bridge Too Far 1977

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