Miracle on 34th Street (1947 film)

"You see, Mrs. Walker, this is quite an opportunity for me. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. Seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle."

"Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind... and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it."

"Do you realize that there are thousands of children lining the streets? Children who have waited weeks just to see you? You are a disgrace to the tradition of Christmas! And I shall not allow you to malign me in public!"

"(To Sawyer)--"You have no more right to analyze Alfred than a dentist has to remove a gall bladder!""

"Susan, I speak French but that doesn't make me Joan of Arc!"

"Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to. Don't you see? It's not just Kris that's on trial, it's everything he stands for. It's kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles."

"Look Doris, someday you're going to find that your way of facing this realistic world just doesn't work. And when you do, don't overlook those lovely intangibles. You'll discover those are the only things that are worthwhile."

"Mr. Shellhammer: But... but maybe he's only a little crazy like painters or composers or... or some of those men in Washington."

"Alfred, Macy janitor: Yeah, there's a lot of bad 'isms' floatin' around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same - don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck."

"Maureen O'Hara - Doris Walker"

"John Payne - Fred Gailey"

"Edmund Gwenn - Kris Kringle"

"Gene Lockhart - Judge Henry X. Harper"

"Natalie Wood - Susan Walker"

"Porter Hall - Granville Sawyer"

"William Frawley - Charlie Halloran"

"Jerome Cowan - Dist. Atty. Thomas Mara"

"Philip Tonge - Julian Shellhammer"