Top 16 Harold & Maude Quotes
#1. A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#2. What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you can only work until the production wraps. Then you have to find another job.
Jason Bateman
#3. You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are *this*,
[she points to a daisy]
Maude: yet allow themselves be treated as *that*.
[she gestures to a field of daisies]
Colin Higgins
#4. Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from "I can't do this" to "I must do this.
Toni Sorenson
#5. I know a lot of people think I'm a bitch, but that's just personality. I have the full complement of human empathy, and I'm not looking forward to what I have to do tonight.
D.B. Reynolds
#6. I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'
Leslie Mann
#7. The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.
Clive James
#8. Lincoln felt a surge of something like strength. He set down Harold and Maude, surreptitiously, and picked up something else, Hairspray.
Rainbow Rowell
#9. I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And ... it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate.
Marilyn Manson
#10. Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.
Steven Spielberg
#12. We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities.
Claire McCaskill
#13. Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.
Stefan Zweig
#14. 'Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.
Stephen Chbosky
#15. Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.
Harry Kalven
#16. What if I shave?" he said. "I look much better when I'm shaved. My cousin will vouch for that - do I not look almost handsome when I shave, Edward? " He didn't wait for the duke's reply but turned earnestly back to Prudence. "Do you think you could marry me if I shaved?
Anne Gracie