Life Is Beautiful Quotes: In Life is Beautiful, our protagonist Guido’s beautiful teacher Dora falls in love and they get married despite all the obstacles. Then, when all the problems in the lives of the couple, who also have a child, are cleared, war breaks out.
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Life Is Beautiful Quotes
1. “I want to make love to you, not just once, but over and over again! But I’ll never tell you that. I’d have to be crazy to tell you. I’d even make love to you now, right here for the rest of my life.”-Guido, Life is Beautiful
2. “Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary.” -Uncle Eliseo, Life is Beautiful
3. “You can lose all your points for any one of three things. One: If you cry. Two: If you ask to see your mother. Three: If you’re hungry and ask for a snack! Forget it!” –Guido, Life is Beautiful
4. “Fat, fat, ugly, ugly / truly all yellow / if you asreferring to cowardice, and ‘quack, quack, quack’ (in Italian- “coin, coin, coin”) referring to himself as a doctor.” –Riddles, Life is Beautiful
5. “If you say my name there is no more. Who am I?” –Riddles, Life is Beautiful
6. “The dwarves and Snow White sit down for a bite. How fast can you guess what she serves her guests next?” –Riddles, Life is Beautiful
7. “The more there is, the less you see.” –Riddles, Life is Beautiful
8. “Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary.” –Eliseo, Life is Beautiful
9. “Mum, we won, we won! (referring to the tank).”-Joshua, Life is Beautiful
10. “My husband and son are on that train. I want to get on that train. Did you hear me? I want to get on that train.” –Dora, Life is Beautiful
11. “Buongiorno, Principessa! (Good Morning, Princess!)” -Guido, Life is Beautiful
12. “What kind of place is this? It’s beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the sky! I’m moving here!.” -Guido, Life is Beautiful
13. “(pretending to translate a German concentration camp guard’s instructions to the new prisoners) The game starts now. You have to score one thousand points. If you do that, you take home a tank with a big gun. Each day we will announce the scores from that loudspeaker. The one who has the fewest points will have to wear a sign that says “Jackass” on his back. There are three ways to lose points. One, if you cry. Two, if you ask to see your mother. Three, if you’re hungry and ask for a snack. Forget it!” -Guido, Life is Beautiful
14. Giosua: Look, they stopped the train to let Mom get on.
Guido: Dora… –Life is Beautiful
15. Guido: [being shipped to a concentration camp] You’ve never ridden on a train, have you? They’re fantastic! Everybody stands up, close together, and there are no seats!
Giosua:There aren’t any seats?
Guido: Seats? On a train? It’s obvious you’ve never ridden one before! No, everybody’s packed in, standing up. Look at this line to get on! Hey, we’ve got tickets, save room for us! –Life is Beautiful
16. Giosua: “No Jews or Dogs Allowed.” Why do all the shops say, “No Jews Allowed”?
Guido: Oh, that. “Not Allowed” signs are the latest trend! The other day, I was in a shop with my Chinese friend and his pet kangaroo, but their sign said, “No Chinese or Kangaroos Allowed,” and I said to my friend, “Well, what can I do? They don’t allow kangaroos.”
Giosua: We let everyone in our shop, don’t we?
Guido: Well, tomorrow, we’ll put one up. We won’t let in anything we don’t like. What don’t you like?
Giosua: Spiders.
Guido: Good I don’t like Visigoths. Tomorrow, we’ll get a sign: “No Spiders or Visigoths Allowed.” –Life is Beautiful
17. Guido: (learning how to be a waiter) How far do I bow? I suppose I can even go 180 degrees.
Eliseo: Think of a sunflower, they bow to the sun. But if you see some that are bowed too far down, it means they’re dead. You’re here serving, you’re not a servant. Serving is the supreme art. God is the first of servants. God serves men, but he’s not a servant to men. –Life is Beautiful
18. Guido: What are your political views?
Italian Official: [speaking to his two sons] Benito, Adolf! Be good !… Sorry Guido, what did you say? –Life is Beautiful
19. Guido:Mary! Send down the key! (speaking to the woman in the window)
Dora: (later) Mary! Send someone to give [him] a dry hat!
Man: (snatches hat off Guido’s head, exchanges hats) –Life is Beautiful
20. Guido: I forgot to tell you.
Dora: Go ahead.
Guido: You can’t imagine how much I feel like making love to you. But I’ll never tell anyone, especially not you. They’d have to torture me to make me say it.
Dora: Say what?
Guido: That I want to make love to you – not just once, but over and over again! But I’ll never tell you that. I’d have to be crazy to tell you. I’d even make love to you now… right here for the rest of my life. –Life is Beautiful
