The Guard Quotes

Aidan McBride: [entering the pub]Little early for a drink. You're still on duty. You've been gone all afternoon.
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [playing a video game]You gonna continue to make a series of declarative statements, or are you gonna fuckin' tell me something?

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Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [answering the door]Ah, listen, I think there's been a mix-up. You've the wrong night.
Gabriela McBride: I'm sorry?
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: You're from the agency?
Gabriela McBride: No. My husband is missing.
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Oh, I'm sorry. Come in, come in. [realizing he has no pants on]
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'll just slip into something a little less comfortable.

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Clive Cornell: I fuckin' hate bent coppers, I swear to God.
Francis Sheehy: Did they try something?
Clive Cornell: No, they didn't try something.
Liam O'Leary: What's the problem, then?
Clive Cornell: I'm just fuckin' sick and tired of the kind of people we have to deal with in this business.
Liam O'Leary: What do you expect? We're drug traffickers.

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Sergeant Gerry Boyle: It's not as if you're that hard to please.
Eileen Boyle: Yeah, that's what they said to me at the orgy.

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Gerry Stanton: You know when you hear tell about someone being liquidated, you know, by the mob, like?
FBI agent Wendell Everett: Mm.
Gerry Stanton: What does that actually mean?
FBI agent Wendell Everett: Means they've been killed. I mean, what else would it mean?
Gerry Stanton: Yeah, I know that. But does it mean they've actually been turned into liquid?
FBI agent Wendell Everett: Heh, heh, heh. Turned into liquid. [realizing he's serious]
FBI agent Wendell Everett: No. Just killed.
Gerry Stanton: Yeah, I suppose turning someone into liquid would be too time-consuming, huh? Take ages.

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Francis Sheehy: [dropping his binoculars]Nothing. Tomorrow night's sell, we're good to go. [thumbs up]
Clive Cornell: I fuckin' hate that.
Francis Sheehy: What?
Clive Cornell: Americanisms. Good to go.

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Clive Cornell: [loading in drug shipment]Where the fuck did you find those three?
Francis Sheehy: Oh, I put an ad in the paper saying, Henchmen wanted.

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Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Maybe the mice ate them

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Sergeant Gerry Boyle: What's a derringer?
Colum Hennessey: It's like a baby gun. One of the gay lads used to... used to like secreting it on his person, you know.
Sergeant Gerry Boyle: There were gay lads in the IRA?
Colum Hennessey: There are one or two. Well, it was the only way we could successfully infiltrate the MI5.

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