Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

Charles Brackett · Ninotchka (screenplay, 1939), spoken by Melvyn Douglas

We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.

Charles Brackett · Sunset Boulevard (screenplay, 1950), spoken by Gloria Swanson

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Charles Brackett · Sunset Boulevard (screenplay, 1950), spoken by Gloria Swanson

The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.

Charles Brackett · Ninotchka (screenplay, 1939), spoken by Greta Garbo

More Love Quotes

Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “Doing “good” (in an ethical sense) is in reality difficult to achieve. To me, something creative that has been done with love is to have done “good.”” · To Valentine Bulgakov, 4 November 1931.

My nurse was my confidante. Mrs. Everest it was who looked after me and tended all my wants. It was to her I poured out my many troubles.

Winston Churchill · My Early Life (1930)

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!

Charlotte Brontë · Jane to Rochester in the orchard at Thornfield when she believes he is to marry Blanche Ingram and she must leave him; it is this outburst that draws his proposal.

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“Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.”

“We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.”

“All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.”

“The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.”

“Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.”

“My nurse was my confidante. Mrs. Everest it was who looked after me and tended all my wants. It was to her I poured out my many troubles.”

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!”