Miracle on 34th Street 
is a feel-good 1947 Christmas classic. Enjoy Edmund Gwenn in an outstanding performance as Kris Kringle -- the benevolent Santa Claus. Christmas is a commercial racket where shoppers try to get the best deals and stores outdo each other in attracting consumers. This movie spins that a bit and brings a whole lot of fun and entertainment. Here are some memorable
Miracle on 34th Street quotes.
- Kris Kringle
Oh, Christmas isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind... and that's what's been changing. That's why I'm glad I'm here, maybe I can do something about it.
- Fred Gailey
Look Doris, someday you're going to find that your way of facing this realistic world just doesn't work. And when you do, don't overlook those lovely intangibles. You'll discover those are the only things that are worthwhile.
- Susan Walker
I believe... I believe... It's silly, but I believe.
- Susan Walker
If you're really Santa Claus, you can get it for me. And if you can't, you're only a nice man with a white beard, like mother says.
- Fred Gailey
All my life I've wondered something, and now's my chance to find out. I'm going to find the answer to a question that's puzzled the world for centuries. Does Santa Claus sleep with his whiskers outside or in?
- Kris Kringle
Now wait a minute, Susie. Just because every child can't get his wish that doesn't mean there isn't a Santa Claus.
- Susan Walker
You mean it's like, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
- Kris Kringle
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig! Home again, home again, jiggety-jig. To market, to market, to buy a fat hog! Home again, home again, jiggety...
- Doris Walker
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
- Doris Walker
Susan, I speak French but that does not make me Joan of Arc.
- Doris Walker
And by filling them full of fairy tales they grow up considering life a fantasy instead of reality.
- Mr. Shellhammer
I just know that with that man on the throne my department will sell more toys than it ever has. I just feel it.
- Alfred
There is a lot of bad ism's floating around this world and one of the worst is commercialism.
- Charles Halloran
All right, you go back and tell them that the New York State Supreme Court rules there's no Santa Claus. It's all over the papers. The kids read it and they don't hang up their stockings.
