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Metropolitan (1990) More at IMDbPro »

Jane Clark: Why should we believe you over Rick? We know you're a hypocrite. We know your "Polly Perkins" story was a fabrication...
Nick Smith: A composite.
Jane Clark: Whatever. And, that you're completely impossible and out of control, with some sort of drug problem and a fixation on what you consider Rick Von Sloneker's wickedness. You're a snob, a sexist, totally obnoxious, and tiresome. And lately, you've gotten just weird. Why should we believe anything you say?
Nick Smith: I'm not tiresome.

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Tom Townsend: You don't have to read a book to have an opinion.

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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.

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Nick Smith: It's a tiny bit arrogant of people to go around worrying about those less fortunate.

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

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

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Nick Smith: Rick Von Slonecker is tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, conceited, a bully, liar, drunk and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic. In short, highly attractive to women.

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Man at Bar: The acid test is whether you take any pleasure in responding to the question "What do you do?" I can't bear it.

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Charlie Black: When you're an egoist, none of the harm you do is intentional.

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Sally Fowler: What have you against Tom?
Charlie Black: Just one thing: He's not a good person.

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Audrey Rouget: What Jane Austen novels have you read?
Tom Townsend: None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author.

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Tom Townsend: I've never been this drunk before. The problem is, with Fred no longer drinking, I can't pace myself.

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Nick Smith: The cha cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

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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: Playing strip poker with an exhibitionist somehow takes the challenge away.

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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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Jane Clark: What are you reading?
Nick Smith: The story of Babar... I'd forgotten how beautiful it was.

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Sally Fowler: Good night! Oh... good luck with your Furrierism!

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Nick Smith: Driver! Follow that pedestrian!

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Nick Smith: The titled aristocracy are the scum of the earth.
Sally Fowler: You always say "titled" aristocrats. What about "untitled" aristocrats?
Nick Smith: Well, I could hardly despise them, could I? That would be self-hatred.

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Tom Townsend: [to Serena Slocum] I haven't been giving you the silent treatment. I just haven't been talking to you.

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Rick Von Sloneker: Get outta here and take this flat-chested, goody-goody, pain in the neck with you
[referring to Audrey]
Tom Townsend: She is NOT a goody-goody.

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Audrey Rouget: [after Tom disappears with Serena] Tom's not used to places like this. Maybe he went through one of those stairway doors that lock from the inside.
Nick Smith: He can't get locked in. I used to have to use those doors when people forgot to invite me to their parties.

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Nick Smith: Dawn in the big city. There are eight million stories out there.

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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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Nick Smith: The most important thing to realize about parents is that there is absolutely nothing you can do about them.

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Tom Townsend: He seems less pessimistic than you.
Charlie Black: I know: it doesn't ring true.

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Charlie Black: But I *am* authorized to use my mother's card: I use it all the time.

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Charlie Black: I can't believe you don't have a license.
Tom Townsend: Of course I don't: I live in Manhattan.

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Charlie Black: Hey, look at this.
Tom Townsend: What is it?
Charlie Black: Looks like some girl's panties.
Tom Townsend: Jesus, that bastard.

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Serena Slocum: I didn't save your letters but I didn't throw them away.
Tom Townsend: I don't understand, is that a riddle?

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Charlie Black: Snobbery is looked down upon.

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Cynthia McLean: Is our language so impoverished that we have to use acronyms of French phrases to make ourselves understood?
Nick Smith: Yes.

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Charlie Black: That was really embarrassing. Thank you for including me.

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