Going My Way (1944)

Barry Fitzgerald: Father Fitzgibbon

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• Father Fitzgibbons : A golf course is nothing but a poolroom moved outdoors..

• Father Fitzgibbons : I'm sure that the way to say what I'd like to say will occur to me after you've gone.

• Father Fitzgibbons : Hope? You know, Chuck, when you're young, it's easy to keep the fires of hope burning bright. But at my age, you're lucky if the pilot light doesn't go out.

• Father Fitzgibbons : ...And I gave him my blessing

  Father Chuck O'Malley : And he gave you the bird?

• Father Chuck O'Malley : Here, take this.

  [Gives a spoonful of medicine to Father Fitzgibbon] 

  Father Chuck O'Malley : That'll keep the pilot light burning.

  Father Fitzgibbons : Yes, it ought to. Tastes like it has kerosene in it.

• Father Fitzgibbons : I gave them both my blessing.

  Father Chuck O'Malley : And they gave you the bird.

  Father Fitzgibbons : Yeah.

• Father Chuck O'Malley : Poor young Ted has been wounded in Africa.

  Father Fitzgibbons : Ah, too bad.

  Father Chuck O'Malley : They're shipping him home.

  Father Fitzgibbons : Fine, upstanding young fellow. Maybe they'll decorate him.

  Father Chuck O'Malley : Nnnno, I doubt it. Some friend of his ran over him in a jeep.

• Father Fitzgibbons : Well, did you make your parish calls.

  Father Chuck O'Malley : Oh, yes. Mrs. McGonigle's rheumatism is kicking up again. I told her to bury a potato in the back yard.

  Father Fitzgibbons : That's for warts.

  Father Chuck O'Malley : That's what she said.

• Father Fitzgibbons : You know how to manage these old fussbudgets. Take him out on the golf course. Bring him out in the fresh air.

• Father Chuck O'Malley : Mr. Haines is going to give us a mortgage to take care of the difference.

  Ted Haines Sr. : That's right, father. He convinced me I have a heart. And, after all, it wouldn't be a church without a mortgage.

  Father Fitzgibbons : That's right. That's right.

• Mrs. Carmody : [Father Fitzgibbons has been subjected to the boys singing Three Blind Mice repeatedly]  It's no business of mine, father, but sometimes the things we do in haste are the things we most regret. Think it over a while, then if you really feel you must see the Bishop...

  Father Fitzgibbons : [obstinate]  That I do!

  Mrs. Carmody : But the boys are much better off here than running the streets, I'm sure that was Father O'Malley's idea.

  Father Fitzgibbons : I'm a tolerant man, Mrs. Carmody, but there are some things that get under my skin, and Three Blind Mice is one of them!