The Holdovers tells the story of Paul Hunham (played by Paul Giamatti), a grumpy classics teacher at a prestigious New England boarding school. During the Christmas break, most faculty and students leave the campus, but Paul is forced to stay behind due to a lack of travel arrangements. He’s then tasked with supervising a small group of students who also have nowhere to go.
Discover the top 10 memorable and inspiring quotes from the blockbuster movie “The Holdovers” released in 2023.
The Holdovers Quotes
1- “The world doesn’t make sense anymore. I mean, it’s on fire. The rich don’t give a shit. Poor kids are cannon fodder. Integrity is a punch line. Trust is just a name on a bank.” -Paul Hunham
2- “You can’t even dream a whole dream, can you?” -Mary Lamb
3- “Mr. Tully, for most people sex is 99 percent friction and one percent goodwill.” -Paul Hunham
4- “Without sufficient exercise, the body devours itself.” -Paul Hunham
5- “This is your Rubicon. Do not cross the Rubicon.” -Paul Hunham
6- “Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. For my money, it’s like the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita all rolled up into one. And the best part is not one mention of God.” -Paul Hunham
7- “You know, Mr. Kountze, for most people, life is like a henhouse ladder: shitty and short. You were born lucky. Maybe someday, you entitled little degenerates will appreciate that. If you don’t, I feel sorry for you and we will have failed to do our jobs.” -Paul Hunham
8- “I thought all of the Nazis were hiding in Argentina.”
9- “Hardy, I have known you since you were a boy, so I think I have the requisite experience and insight to aver that you are and always have been penis cancer in human form.” -Paul Hunham
10- “There’s nothing new in human experience, Mr. Tully. Each generation thinks it invented debauchery or suffering or rebellion, but man’s every impulse and appetite from the disgusting to the sublime is on display right here all around you. So, before you dismiss something as boring or irrelevant, remember, if you truly want to understand the present or yourself, you must begin in the past. You see, history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present.” -Paul Hunham
