Quotes

Miracle on 34th Street

Kris Kringle: You think I'm a fraud, don't you?
Dorey Walker: Fraud is a bit too strong of a word.
Kris Kringle: But you don't believe in me.
Dorey Walker: I believe that Christmas is for children.
Kris Kringle: Well your daughter doesn't believe in me, either.
Dorey Walker: I don't think that there's any harm in not believing in a figure that many do acknowledge to be a fiction.
Kris Kringle: Oh, but there is. I'm not just a whimsical figure who wears a charming suit and affects a jolly demeanor. You know, I I I'm a symbol. I'm a symbol of the human ability to be able to suppress the selfish and hateful tendencies that rule the major part of our lives. If you can't believe, if you can't accept anything on faith, then you're doomed for a life dominated by doubt.

Bryan Bedford: Your Honor, a lot of people believe in Mr. Kringle. Including millions of children. If you rule against him, you won't destroy anyone's belief but you will destroy the man they believe in. Mr. Kringle is not concerned for himself, if he was he wouldn't be here. He is in this regrettable positon because he is willing to sacrifice himself for children. To create in their minds a world far better than the one we've made for them. If this is, as Mr. Collins suggests, a masquerade then Mr. Kringle is eager to forfeit his freedom to preserve that masquerade. To subject himself to prosecution to protect the children's right to believe. If this court finds that Mr. Kringle is not who he says he is, that there is no Santa, I ask the court to judge which is worse: A lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear.

Dorey Walker: I don't care what you asked Mr. Kringle for. Susan, that is not why we're going to the house.
Susan Walker: We're going to the cataloged house, right? That's the house I told him I wanted. I showed him a picture of it and he took it and he said he would get for me.
Bryan Bedford: Well, a house is a pretty big gift, Susan.
Susan Walker: That's what Mr. Kringle said.
Dorey Walker: Honey, we are going to the house because it snowed. And it's very pretty. And because Mr. Shellhamer wants to take photographs for next years Christmas catalog. Which, I think, is awfully bold of him. It is a holiday.
Susan Walker: That's just an excuse. Mr. Kringle did all this. I'm very sorry Mother, you have it perfectly wrong.

Susan Walker: This is the house I asked Kris for, and he got me a dad, and the third thing I'll just have to wait for.

Susan Walker: Would it please the court if I gave you your Christmas card? I don't think I'll see you again. Unless I get arrested which is highly unlikely because it's Christmas Eve and I'm going to bed uncharacteristically early.

Kris Kringle: Mr. Collins, I hope you've taken down that old TV antenna. I ripped my pants on it last year.

Orderly: This guy ain't dangerous. He may be off his rails a bit, but he ain't nothing. And if he wants to call himself Santa Claus, then God bless him.

Bryan Bedford: [pointing toward Ed Collins] Well, tell me something, Daniel could that man be Santa Claus?
Daniel: Nope.
Bryan Bedford: Why not?
Daniel: 'Cause Santa don't got a grumpy face.

Bailiff: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Kris Kringle: Yes, but don't I put my hand on a Bible?
Bailiff: No, sir, you don't.
Kris Kringle: Well, I'll put my hand on my heart instead. I do.

Judge Henry Harper: Merry christmas! I'm not going to be needing that.The young lady who just approached the bench presented me with this christmas card and this. It's a 1$ bill. It's going to be returned to her shortly, but by presenting me with this bill, she reminded me that it's issued by the treasury of the United States of America. And it's backed by the government, and the people, of the United States of America. Upon inspection of the article, you will see the words, "in God we trust." We're not here to prove that God exists, but we are here to prove that a being just as invisible and yet just as present exists. Federal government puts its trust in God. It does so on faith and faith alone. It's the will of the people that guides the government. And it is and was their collective faith in a greater being that gave and gives cause to this bill's inscription. Now, if the government of the United States can issue it's currency bearing a declaration of trust in God without demanding physical evidence of the existence or the nonexistence of a greater being, then the state of New York, by a similar demonstration of the collective faith of its people, can accept and acknowledge that Santa Claus does exist, and he exists In the person of Kriss Kringle! Case dismissed.

Kris Kringle: Well, I would greatly like to oblige, Mr. Collins, but I cannot make this reindeer fly.
Ed Collins: I didn't think so.
Kris Kringle: He only flies on Christmas Eve.

C.F. Cole: We invite you to ask yourself this one simple question: Do you believe in Santa Claus?

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