The General Quotes

[Asking about his relationship with the deceased]

Brenner: Did you play together?

Colonel Robert Moore: What a truly excellent question.

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[Asking about his relationship with the deceased]

Brenner: Did you play together?

Colonel Robert Moore: What a truly excellent question.

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Annabelle Lee: Did Johnnie enlist?

Annabelle's brother: He didn't even get in line.

Mr. Lee: He's a disgrace to the South.

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Bo Duke: Faster than a bee-stung stallion, cuz

Luke Duke: Y'already used that one, Bo

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Brenner: Chief Yardley! Shouldn't you be out night-sticking the colored folk?

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Brenner: Here you are, sir?
[pulls out folded piece of paper]

Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: What is that?

Brenner: The names of the perpetrators by associate agent Sunhill, found with a minimum of trouble. Apple pie, sir.

Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: That's just brilliant.

Brenner: Each man will be looking at twenty years, sir.

Col. George Fowler: I think you'd better go now.

Brenner: Fine. We'll just deal with the phone call issue tomorrow, if you prefer... perhaps before your flight.

Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: What phone call issue?

Brenner: I have excellent reason to believe that Moore phoned you at 0300 hours the night of the murder.

Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: And why in the world would he have done that?

Brenner: Well, if I'm right sir, I think the whole recreation of the rape was Elisabeth's idea. God knows why she did it, perhaps because you were going into politics maybe she thought this was her last chance. But I think she got Moore to put her in exactly the same position the rapist did seven years ago. This time you weren't in Germany, and if I'm right, she would have wanted you to see firsthand what you tried to have covered up.

Col. George Fowler: THAT NEVER HAPPENED!

Brenner: [producing mini tape recorder] A gift from Moore's lawyer.

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Brenner: I told you when we started that we'd get the son of a bitch, sir. I just never figured the son of a bitch was you.

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Brenner: My father was a drunk, a gambler and a womanizer. I worshipped him.

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Brenner: My father was a drunk, a gambler and a womanizer. I worshipped him.

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Brenner: So what happened to the guy with the gun?

Sunhill: I married him.

Brenner: Well, I'm happy for you. I wish a long life of happiness for both of you.

Sunhill: I filed for divorce.

Brenner: Good.

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Brenner: What are you doing here?

Sunhill: I'm a little nauseated, can we go please?

Brenner: Well hop on, I'll burp ya.

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Brenner: What's worse than rape?

Moore: When you find that out you'll have all the answers.

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Colonel Robert Moore: Do you think I'm involved in this?

Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, C.I.D.: One way or another, yes.

Colonel Robert Moore: Then wouldn't it behoove me to retain the services of an attorney? I know a good one.

Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, C.I.D.: Two problems there. First the obvious: there are no good ones. Second, you're not a civilian, Colonel, you're in the army. You have no rights to an attorney. You have no right to remain silent. And if you don't cooperate I may have to put you in jail and that would make me feel really bad.

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Colonel Robert Moore: When did the... event... transpire?

Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, C.I.D.: Zero-Four hundred, we think.

Colonel Robert Moore: I was snug in bed.

Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, C.I.D.: Witnesses? Wife? Girlfriend? Roommate? Hooker?

Colonel Robert Moore: I am divorced. I am between girlfriends, I live alone and I do NOT use hookers. I actually have no alibi whatsoever. Does that make me a criminal?

Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, C.I.D.: No. It makes you lonely and unpopular.

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General Tanz: [outside Maxim's] An adequate restaurant, very clean.

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General Tanz: [to Hartmann] I don't want to have to blow your handsome head to pieces.

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Inspector Morand: But, murder is the occupation of Generals.

Major Grau: Then let us say what is admirable on the large scale is monstrous on the small. Since we must give medals to mass murderers, why not give justice to the small... entrepreneur.

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Inspector Morand: But, murder is the occupation of Generals.

Major Grau: Then let us say what is admirable on the large scale is monstrous on the small. Since we must give medals to mass murderers, why not give justice to the small... entrepreneur.

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Inspector Morand: Welcome, Colonel Grau, to the spider's web.

Major Grau: How did you know it was me?

Inspector Morand: What other German Colonel would enter unannounced?

Major Grau: Any SS Colonel would.

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Jones: Between war and women, the General's got me by the nuts.

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Major Grau: I have a zealous nature, Sir, I can't help it.

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Martin Cahill: [looking at himself on television] It makes me look fat.

Tina: You're not fat. You're cuddly.

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Megan Davis: I want you to think of all those things and then forgive her.

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Megan Davis: I want you to think of all those things and then forgive her.

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Megan Davis: You can always do so much more with mercy than you can with murder. Why don't you give her another chance?

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Moore: We are, I assume, still trying to outsmart each other?

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O'Hara: I like people too much to shoot. But it's a dark year and a hard night.

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O'Hara: We could've made wonderful music together.

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Paul Brenner: Perhaps she preferred her men to wear condoms. Perhaps you're aware that condoms are in fashion again, because of disease? These days, you have to boil somebody before you can sleep with them. Care for a bath?

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Sunhill: I thought you hated places like this.

Brenner: I do. However the murderer might be in here; sitting in here, all smug and shiny... until we walked in. And now they're a little less smug and a little less shiny... and I think that's pretty cool, don't you?

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