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"I looked at her and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen on earth." — Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

Movie of the Day: Lolita (1962)

152 min - Drama | Romance - 12 June 1962 (USA)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Vladimir Nabokov

Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon

Memorable Quotes

Humbert Humbert: You know, I've missed you terribly.

Lolita Haze: I haven't missed you. In fact, I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you.

Humbert Humbert: Oh?

Lolita Haze: But it doesn't matter a bit, because you've stopped caring anyway.

Humbert Humbert: What makes you say I've stopped caring for you?

Lolita Haze: Well, you haven't even kissed me yet, have you?

Charlotte Haze: Do you believe in God?

Humbert Humbert: The question is does God believe in me?

Humbert Humbert: The best people all shave twice a day.

Charlotte Haze: Whenever you touch me, darling, I go as limp as a noodle.

Humbert Humbert: Yes, I am familiar with that feeling.

Humbert Humbert: What drives me insane is the twofold nature of this nymphet, of every nymphet perhaps, this mixture in my Lolita of tender, dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity. I know it is madness to keep this journal, but it gives me a strange thrill to do so. And only a loving wife could decipher my microscopic script.