Citizen Kane quotes

View Quote Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Switzerland... he was thrown out of a lot of colleges.

View Quote He married for love. Love. That's why he did everything. That's why he went into politics. It seems we weren't enough, he wanted all the voters to love him too. Guess all he really wanted out of life was love. That's Charlie's story, how he lost it. You see, he just didn't have any to give. Well, he loved Charlie Kane of course, very dearly, and his mother, I guess he always loved her.

View Quote I always gagged on that silver spoon.

View Quote I can remember everything. That's my curse, young man. It's the greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory.

View Quote I don't think there's one word that can describe a mans life.

View Quote I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

View Quote I suppose he had some private sort of greatness, but he kept it to himself. He never gave himself away. He never gave anything away, he just left you a tip, hmm? Ha. He had a generous mind. I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions. But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life. I suppose he died without one. It must have been pretty unpleasant. Of course, a lot of us check out without having any special convictions about death, but we do know what we believe in, we do believe in something.

View Quote I was on my way to the Western Manhattan Warehouse in search of my youth. You see, my mother died a long time ago and her things were put in storage out West. There wasn't any other place to put them. I thought I'd send for them now. Tonight, I was going to take a look at them. You know, a sort of sentimental journey.

View Quote If I don't look after the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody else will, maybe somebody without any money or property...and that would be too bad!

View Quote If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough.

View Quote It's also my pleasure to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates, just because they haven't had anybody to look after their interests...

View Quote Old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to being cured of.

View Quote President's niece, huh? Before Mr. Kane's through with her, she'll be a president's wife.

View Quote The news goes on for 24 hours a day.

View Quote We have no secrets from our readers. Mr. Thatcher is one of our most devoted readers, Mr. Bernstein. He knows what's wrong with every issue since I've taken charge.