Rear Window tells the story of a man who witnesses a terrible situation with his neighbor.
1. “Yeah, I can hear you now. Get out of my life. You’re a perfectly wonderful woman – you’re too good for me. Look, Mr. Jeffries, I’m not an educated woman, but I can tell you one thing. When a man and a woman see each other and like each other, they ought to come together – wham!” – Lisa, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
2. “I’ve seen it through that window. I’ve seen bickering and family quarrels and mysterious trips at night, knives and saws and ropes, and now since last evening, not a sign of the wife.” – Jeff, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
3. “I should have been a Gypsy fortune teller instead of an insurance company nurse. I got a nose for trouble—can smell it 10 miles away.” – Stella, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
4. “I get myself half killed for you and you reward me by stealing my assignments.” – Jeff, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
5. “Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn’t believe what they’d see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn’t kill his wife. We’re two of the most frightening ghouls I’ve ever known.” – Lisa, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
6. “A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.” – Lisa, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
7. “Yeah, can’t you just see me, rushin’ home to a hot apartment to listen to the automatic laundry and the electric dishwasher and the garbage disposal…the nagging wife.” – Jeff, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
8. “Every man’s ready to get married when the right girl comes along.” – Stella, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
9. “We’ve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their house and look in for a change.” – Stella, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
10. “When I married Miles, we were both a couple of maladjusted misfits. We are still maladjusted misfits, and we have loved every minute of it.” – Stella, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
11. “Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.” – Stella, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
12. “When two people love each other, they come together – wham – like two taxis on Broadway.” – Stella, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
13. “I’m in love with you. I don’t care what you do for a living. I’d just like to be part of it somehow. It’s deflating to find out the only way I can be part of it is to take out a subscription to your magazine. I guess I’m not the girl I thought I was.” – Lisa, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
14. “Jeff: No, she’s just not the girl for me.
Stella: Yeah, she’s only perfect.
Jeff: She’s too perfect. She’s too talented, she’s too beautiful. She’s too sophisticated. She’s too everything but what I want.
Stella: Is, um, what you want something you can discuss?” – ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
15. “Stella: You ever gonna get married?
Jeff: I’ll probably get married one of these days, and when I do, it’s gonna be to someone who thinks of life not just as a new dress, and a lobster dinner, the latest scandal. I need a woman who’s willing…to go anywhere and do anything and love it. So the honest thing for me to do is just to call the whole thing off and let her find somebody else.” – ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
16. “Jeff : I just can’t figure it. He went out several times last night in the rain carrying his sample case.
Stella : Well, he’s a salesman, isn’t he?
Jeff : Well, what would he be selling at three o’clock in the morning?
Stella : Flashlights. Luminous dials for watches. House numbers that light up.”– ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
17. “Lisa: What’s a logical explanation for a woman taking a trip with no luggage?
Jeff: That she didn’t know she was going on a trip and where she was going she wouldn’t need any luggage.
Lisa: Exactly.” – ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
18. “Jeff: She’s like a queen bee with her pick of the drones.
Lisa: I’d say she’s doing a woman’s hardest job: juggling wolves.” – ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
19. “Jeff: Well, that’s fine, Stella. Now would you fix me a sandwich please?
Stella: Yes, I will. And I’ll spread a little common sense on the bread. Lisa’s loaded to her fingertips with love for you – I got two words of advice for you – Marry her!
Jeff: [jokingly] Did she pay you much?”– ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
20. “Jeff : Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase and come back three times?
Lisa : He likes the way his wife welcomes him home.” – ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
21. “Sometimes it’s worse to stay than it is to run.”– Jeff, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
22. “That’s no ordinary look. That’s the kind of look a man gives when he is afraid somebody might be watching him.” – Jeff, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
23. “That’s a secret, private world you’re looking into out there. People do a lot of things in private they couldn’t possibly explain in public.” – Detective Doyle, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
24. “Well, I guess I’m using that word ‘we’ a little freely. You’re taking all the chances.” – Jeff, ‘Rear Window’ (1954).
25. “I’m not much on rear window ethics.” –Lisa ,’Rear Window’ (1954).
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