Notorious Quotes

Alicia : Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other, that's your "patriotism".

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Alicia : What does the speedometer say?
Devlin : 65.
Alicia : I want to make it 80 and wipe that grin off your face.

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Ethel : Where are you going?
Mr. Hopkins : Fishing.
Ethel : At this time of night? You're mad.
Mr. Hopkins : What's the difference? There's no fish, day or night.

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Alicia : Alex has the key to that.
Devlin : Then, get it from him.
Alicia : Get it? How?
Devlin : Don't you live near him?

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[ driving while drunk ]
Alicia : How am I doing?
Devlin : Not bad.
Alicia : Scared?
Devlin : No.
Alicia : No... no, you're not scared of anything, are you? [ the car nearly swerves off-road ]
Devlin : [ correcting himself ] Not too much!

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Devlin : [ bitterly, to Alicia ] Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.

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[ last lines ]
Eric Mathis : Alex, will you come in, please? I wish to talk to you.

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[ first lines ]
[Title card] : Miami, Florida, Three-Twenty P.M., April the Twenty-Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six... [ reporters and photographers converse amongst themselves outside the courtroom ]
Judge : Is there any legal reason why sentence should not be pronounced?
District Attorney : No, your honor.
John Huberman : Yes, I have something to say. You can put me away, but you can't put away what's going to happen to you, and to this whole country next time. Next time we are going...
Defense Counsel : [ whispering ] I wouldn't say any more. We'll need that for the appeal.

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Alicia : [ on the plane to Rio after finding out her father has died ] When he told me a few years ago what he was, everything went to pot. I didn't care what happened to me. Now I remember how nice he once was, how nice we both were. It's a very curious feeling, a feeling as if something had happened to me, not to him. You see I don't have to hate him anymore - or myself.

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Devlin : [ after being caught kissing Alicia at the party ] I knew her before you, loved her before you, only I'm not as lucky as you...

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Alicia : If you had only once said that you loved me.

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Devlin : I couldn't see straight or think straight. I was a fat-headed guy, full of pain.

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Alicia : You're sore because you've fallen for a little drunk you tamed in Miami and you don't like it. It makes you sick all over, doesn't it? People will laugh at you, the invincible Devlin, in love with someone who isn't worth even wasting the words on.

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Alexander Sebastian : An old friend is never an extra guest.

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[ Alicia and Devlin meet on a bench in the city ]
Devlin : What's new?
Alicia : Oh, nothing. What's new with you?
Devlin : Nothing.

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Alicia : [ in bed, hung-over ] I'm no stool-pigeon, Mr. Devlin.
Devlin : My department authorized me to engage you to do some work for us. There's a job in Brazil...
Alicia : Oh, go away. The whole thing bores me.
Devlin : Some of the German gentry who are paying your father are working in Rio. Ever hear of the IG Farben Industries?
Alicia : I tell you, I'm not interested.
Devlin : Farben has men in South America, planted there before the war. They're cooperating with the Brazilian government to smoke them out. My chief thinks that the daughter of a, uh...
Alicia : A traitor?
Devlin : Well, he thinks you might be valuable in the work.

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Devlin : [ referring to Sebastian ] Well, he's here. The head of a large German business concern.
Alicia : His family always had money.
Devlin : He's part of the combine that built up the German war machine and hopes to keep on going.
Alicia : Something big?
Devlin : It has all the earmarks of being something big.

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