The Graduate Quotes
"All of a sudden none of it seems to be worth anything to me."
"I’m worried about different things. I’m a little worried about my future."
"I can’t tell what I’m imagining. I can’t tell what’s real."
"I never want to see another educated person again in my life."
"Now I have wasted twenty-one years of my life."
"I’m trying to tell you that I am through with all this."
"I want simple honest people that can’t even read or write their own name."
"I want to spend the rest of my life with these people."
"I am trying to tell you, I’m trying to tell you that I am through with all this."
"I don’t know what it is but I’m sick of it. I want something else."
"Real people, Dad. If you want the cliché, I am going out to spend the rest of my life with the real people of this world."
"I'm trying to tell you, I'm trying to tell you that I am through with all this."
"This is what I call having a ball." - Benjamin
"I can’t think of any at the moment. No." - Benjamin on values
"I have been a goddamn—a goddamn ivy-covered status symbol around here for four years." - Benjamin
"It didn’t work out. It wasn’t worth a damn. Not one single damn thing was it worth." - Benjamin
"We’ve tried to instill certain values into your thinking." - Mr. Braddock
"I feel guilty sitting around home like this." - Benjamin
"I drive around." - Benjamin on what he does at night
"I cannot go on seeing you." - Benjamin in his letter to Mrs. Robinson
"I am thoroughly despicable in everything I am doing with you." - Benjamin in his letter to Mrs. Robinson
"She’s damn attractive." - Mr. Braddock about Mrs. Robinson
"You make me sick! I make myself sick! This is the sickest, most perverted thing that ever happened to me!" - Benjamin to Mrs. Robinson
"I am not proud that I spend my time in hotel rooms with a broken-down alcoholic!" - Benjamin
"I enjoy it. I look forward to it. It’s the one thing I have to look forward to." - Benjamin about his affair with Mrs. Robinson
"I threw it away." - Benjamin about the prize he won
"I’m afraid your friends think I’m just a bum." - Benjamin expressing his guilt to his mother
"We’re not dropping it, Mrs. Robinson. Now that’s the reason, isn’t it. I’m good enough for you but I’m too slimy to associate with your daughter." - Benjamin to Mrs. Robinson
"Don’t talk about Elaine." - Mrs. Robinson to Benjamin
"I love you and I can't help myself and I am begging you to forgive me for what I did."
"I think I should tell you, Elaine doesn't know about this yet."
"I'm very interested to know what it's like to live there. It's an interesting place to live."
"I've gone to a few classes. I've sat in on a few classes at the university."
"This whole idea of the date and everything. It was my parents' idea. They forced me into it."
"You are the one person I don't ever want to see again."
"She told me you dragged her up in the hotel room and got her passed out and then raped her."
"Then you ... you stopped her from getting into the car and said she was too drunk to drive home."
"In the morning you told her she was having an affair with you."
"Then I went downstairs to get her purse. I took it back up. Then I put it on the bed and was walking out and she came walking in. Without any clothes on."
"I don't want you to leave tomorrow until you know where you're going."
"Will you tell me a definite plan before you leave?"
"UNDERSTAND FROM YOUR PARENTS YOU ARE IN BERKELEY STOP WANT YOU TO LEAVE IMMEDIATELY."
"SERIOUS TROUBLE IF I DO NOT HEAR FROM YOU TODAY."
"Have you thought about finding a place to live and buying the groceries every day?"
"I'm not smart or glamorous or anything like that."
"Do you really have any idea of what you're doing?"
"You mean you have actually had six or seven people ask you to marry them?"
"Regardless of whatever trickery he employs I want to make certain you are having no contact with him."
"Please believe me when I say that you are the one thing in my life that matters to me and that I love you very deeply."
"Our fathers are dissolving their partnership!"
"You should try and figure out your own feelings in the matter. You should rely on your own feelings."
"I’m trying to show you that your father has a deluded picture of me."
"I don’t think we have a whole lot to say to each other, Ben."
"Do you want to try and tell me why you did it?"
"You’ve betrayed my trust, you’ve betrayed my confidence."
"Mr. Robinson, because you’ve hurt him. He doesn’t know what to do."
"You do what you want. But if you choose to make trouble you can be quite sure you’ll get a good deal of trouble right back."
"Benjamin, I don’t want you ever to see her again in your life."
"I appreciate that you’re concerned enough about me to come up here. But I cannot leave this place."
"I know what I am doing is the best thing for you."
"Please forgive me because I know what I am doing is the best thing for you."
"If you don’t mind I’d just as soon not get mixed up in some cruddy love affair right now."
"I will see you then if not before, Hallelulial"
"I want you to sit down and tell me why it happened, Ben."