Good Neighbor Sam (1964)

Edward G. Robinson: Simon Nurdlinger

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Quotes 

• Simon Nurdlinger : I don't pretend to know anything about advertising; but, what I can do is to give you a true picture of what our company stands for. We are plain, everyday people dealing in a plain, clean, everyday product. We deal in chickens, eggs and milk. Simplicity, purity, truth.

• Simon Nurdlinger : You know, a man needs a foundation on which to build an immaculate life. Mrs. Nurdlinger and I, we detest the philanderer and the infidelity which some men live by.

  Janet Lagerlof : Oh, yes, so it is with Sam and I.

  Simon Nurdlinger : You wouldn't believe some of the degenerate pursuits of some of the people in our society. But God will deal with the whoremonger and the profited. Their days are numbered. Isaiah, verse six.

  Janet Lagerlof : Amen.

• Mr. Burke : Well, sir, what do you think?

  Simon Nurdlinger : You want to know what I think?

  Mr. Burke : Yes.

  Simon Nurdlinger : I think it's an abomination! Pure filth! I'm not a prudish man, sir; but, I believe the Almighty gave us good, clean married conjugal for the purpose of raising families - not to sell eggs with. Dirty, salacious ads! Unchastity! Venery! Wenching! Flesh and blood. Is that the image you have of my company?

• Simon Nurdlinger : I tell you what I think of you. I think you're all rotten to the core and I think I've chosen the wrong advertising agency.

  Mr. Burke : Just a minute, Mr. Nurdlinger. We are all good, clean family men here.

  Simon Nurdlinger : Now, don't try to fool me, sir. I'm an old man; but, I'm nobody's fool, sir. Good, clean, living family men? Miss Halverson.

  [she hands him a set of files] 

  Simon Nurdlinger : I've run checks on you good, clean, living family men. There are dossiers on each of you.

• Simon Nurdlinger : Libertinism and liquor! Impurity and wantonness!