Harvey * Quotes

"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be' - she always called me Elwood - 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

"There's a little bit of envy in the best of us."

"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."

"They yell at me. Watch the lights. Watch the brakes, Watch the intersections. They scream at me to hurry. They got no faith in me, or my buggy. Yet, it's the same cab, the same driver. and we're going back over the very same road. It's no fun. And no tips... After this he'll be a perfectly normal human being. And you know what stinkers they are!"

"The photograph shows only the reality. The painting shows not only the reality, but the dream behind it."

Dr. Sanderson: "Think carefully, Dowd. Didn't you know somebody, sometime, someplace by the name of Harvey? Didn't you ever know anybody by that name?"
Elwood P. Dowd: "No, no, not one, Doctor. Maybe that's why I always had such hopes for it."

"I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with."