“I mean, what's the point in owning a mace, if you don't use it?”

Sir Michael Caine - Sidney Bruhl

“Imagine a substance in daily use everywhere. Anyone can lay his hands on it, and within a minute after taking, the victim's beautifully out of the way. Mind you, it's undetectable after death.”

Auriol Lee - Isobel Sedbusk

“Don't you know that the greatest men in the world have told lies and let things be misunderstood if it was useful to them? Didn't you ever hear of a campaign promise?”

Claudette Colbert - Gerry Jeffers

“- Clive Candy: I often thought, a fellow like me dies - special knowledge, all to waste. Well, am I dead? Does my knowledge count for nothing? Experience? Skill?
- Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff: It is a different knowledge they need now, Clive. The enemy is different, so you have to be different, too.”
Roger Livesey - Clive Candy
Anton Walbrook - Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff

“We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty. We buy what we don't need and throw away everything that's useful. Why sell a man what he wants? Sell him what he doesn't need. Pretend he's got eight legs and two stomachs and money to burn. It's wrong.”
Harrison Ford - Allie Fox