Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

Bernie Hamilton: Goodbye George

Quotes 

• Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : I was just thinking of the beauty and charm of life here on West Madison.

  Wart : Yeah, you'll get used to it Judge, when you've been here as long as we have.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Some place to bring up a boy. Deadbeats hanging round every corner. Hopheads, begging, borrowing, stealing to buy a few cc's of delirium.

  Fran : Come on, Judge, don't do that.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Nick won't have a chance. By the time he's twelve he'll have the soul of toadstool. Somebody has to tell her. Nellie needs help, if Nick's gonna make it.

  Fran : Well, I will, I'll help.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Why don't you all? I, I mean, why don't we...

  Flora : What have we got to give a boy? Just our own miseries.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who knows more about miseries, Flora? Who knows more about life than you or Wart or me?

  Wart : Yeah but what kind of a life?

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : The kind of life we don't want Nick to have.

  Goodbye George : Judge, you mean you want us all to, er, kind of adopt Nick?

  Max : You know, he's right.

  Wart : Maybe you got something.

  Nellie Romano : Hey, are you all serious?

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Who else is there to help you, Nellie?

  Wart : Are you for it, Nellie?

  Nellie Romano : Yes, I am for it.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : A toast! A toast to the future of Nick Romano!

• Fran : You're nice George.

  Goodbye George : Fran, you're gettin' drunk.

  Fran : Nah! I just feel good. I feel like I could just *love* everybody!

• Goodbye George : Flora Belle, let me tell you somethin', baby sweets. I didn't have no papa. My Mama walked off and left me on somebody's doorstep when I was four.

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Orphan, illegitimate and black. That's what I call starting at the top.

  Goodbye George : That's where it's at. But, you dig it, Judge. I was up there once, when I was in the ring. I fought the champ. Almost had him!

  Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan : Almost. Just about the saddest word of all.

• Grant Holloway : Who is this Goodbye George?

  Goodbye George : Me! That's me, Your Honor.

  Grant Holloway : You got a name?

  Goodbye George : That's where it's at. Dig it. Goodbye George.

  Grant Holloway : You a prize fighter? I used to be.

  Goodbye George : That's why they call me Goodbye George. Cause I hit 'em one time and - it's goodbye.

• Goodbye George : This gang of guys jumps my Nick. You think I'm just gonna stand up there and pick my nose?