–Callahan!
–Calloway, not Callahan. I’m English, not Irish.
–Can you tell me whose…
–Fellow called Lime.
–I’ll catch the next plane as soon as I get to the bottom of this.
–Death’s at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the
professionals.
–You mind if I use that line in my next Western?
And there was a third man there.
Baron Kurtz: I may call you Holly, mayn’t I?
Cat got your tongue?
Harry Lime (Orson Welles)
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Harry Lime: In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Haven’t got a sensible name, Calloway.
He never grew up, the world just grew up around him.
Honest, sensible, sober, harmless Holly Martins. Holly-what a silly name.
I was a friend of Harry Lime.
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democarcy and peace, and what did that produce? The cukoo clock.
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Leave death to the professionals.
Mixing fact and fiction.
Next time we’ll use a foolproof coffin.
Paine, Paine, Paine…
The dead are happier dead. They don’t miss much here, poor devils
There he was poor chap, happy as a lark and without a cent.
There he was, poor chap, happy as a lark and without a cent.
They have their five year plan, and so do I.
This isn’t Santa Fe…I’m not the Sheriff, and you aren’t a cowboy.
We all know perfectly well that Zane Grey wrote what we call Westerns.
What can I do, old man, I’m dead, aren’t I?
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