Rear Window Quotes:

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Ethics, Window, Rear Window

Intelligence.  Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

- Thelma Ritter

source: "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

topic: Rear Window, Human Intelligence

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

- Thelma Ritter

topic: Killing, Polite, Rear Window

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.

- John Michael Hayes

topic: Men, Long, Focus, Rear Window, Binoculars

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy?

- Thelma Ritter

source: "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

topic: Philosophy, Race, People, Peeping, Rear Window

Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.

- John Michael Hayes

topic: Race, People, House, Peeping, Rear Window

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

- Paul Fussell

source: Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

topic: Native American, College, People, Affiliation, Colleges And Universities

... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge.

- Karen Tayleur

topic: Heart, Car, Finals, Rear Window

Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Interrogation Techniques, Ideas, Faces, Interrogation, Rear Window

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

- Thelma Ritter

source: "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

topic: Couple, Men, Two, Rear Window

Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in. . . .'

- Thelma Ritter

source: "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

topic: Love, Fun, Congratulations, Stella, Pleading

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

- John Michael Hayes

topic: Song, Inspiration, Writing, Parallelogram, Rear Window

Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word.

- Liam Gallagher

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Discipline, Mystery Men, Rear Window

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word.

- Mose Allison

topic: Oasis, Superhero, Mercy, Mystery Men, Rear Window

For a long time I've walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people's lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.

- Will Oldham

topic: People, Long, Desire, Rear Window