Christmas Story, A quotes

36 total quotes

Mr. Parker
Mrs. Parker
Multiple Characters
Narrator (Ralphie as an adult)

View Quote Aha aha, it's a clinkerrrrrrr!!! That blasted, stupid furnace. Dadgummit! [Goes down stairs; falling sound is heard] Damn skates! [Coughs] Who the hell turned it all the way down?! AGAIN?!!!

View Quote I left Flick to certain annihilation. But BB gun mania knows no loyalty.

View Quote I promise, Daddy is not going to kill Ralphie!

View Quote In our world, you were either a bully, a toady, or one of the nameless rabble of victims!

View Quote It's a beautiful duck. It really is. But you see, it's smiling at me.

View Quote Let's face it, most of us are scoffers. But moments before zero hour, it did not pay to take chances.

View Quote My old man's spare tires were only actually tires in the academic sense. They were round and had once been made of rubber.

View Quote NADDAFINGA!! (Not a finger!!)

View Quote Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

View Quote Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at it's zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters decend upon us.

View Quote Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. Though my personal preference was for Lux, I found that Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heavy, but with a touch of mellow smoothness. Lifebuoy, on the other hand... (Yechh!)

View Quote Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

View Quote SONS O'BITCHES! BUMPUSSES!!!

View Quote That is... The ugliest lamp I have ever seen in my entire LIFE!

View Quote That son of a bitch would freeze up in the middle of summer on the equator!