Citizen Kane Quotes
1940s American films, Drama films, Films directed by Orson Welles, 1941 films, Journalist films, Screenplays by Orson Welles, Films set in New York City, Films set in Florida, Best Original Screenplay Academy Award winners, United States National Film Registry films, Screenplays by Herman J. Mankiewicz, Films set in the 1920s, Films set in the 1930s, Films set in the 1940s
Top Quotes
“It's Terrific!”
“Rosebud...”
“Everybody's talking about it!”
“We never lost as much as we made.”
“The news goes on for 24 hours a day.”
“I always gagged on that silver spoon.”
“The classic story of power and the press.”
“I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?”
“Some called him a hero. Others called him a heel...”
“If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.”
“I don't think there's one word that can describe a man's life.”
“Raymond: [last lines] Throw that junk in!”
“I hate him! I love him! He's a scoundrel! He's a saint! He's crazy! He's a genius!”
“You can't buy a bag of peanuts in this town without someone writing a song about you.”
“President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife.”
“Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.”
“Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.”
“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”
“Wikipedia: Citizen Kane”