Pinch me, Rosie. Here we are, going down the river like Anthony and Cleopatra on that barge! I'll never forget the way you looked going over the falls - head up, chin out, hair blowing in the wind - the living picture of a hero-eyne!
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep (1946)"
Fred C. Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
We'll always have Paris
Ranked #43 in the "100 Movie Quotes" list
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Fred C. Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"
Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep (1946)"
She tried everything to get them, and nothing worked. She did her best to convince me that she was still in love with me, but that was all over long ago. For your sake, she pretended it wasn't, and I let her pretend.
Fred C. Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"
[about Curtin] Maybe I'd better leave him like he is. Ain't very likely anybody will find him. In a week's time, the buzzards and the ants will have done away with him anyway. [A tiger's cry startles him.] I don't know what's getting into me. Was that really a tiger? No. What if his eyes are open, looking at me? Best thing to do is to get to the railroad in a hurry. It's better not to have buried him. I did right, yeah! What I should have done, maybe, bury his clothes and leave him to the ants and the buzzards...Buzzards! If somebody saw them circling, they'd know something was dead. Buzzards ain't spotted him yet. Lucky for me. [He runs back, but cannot find Curtin's body.] Curtin! Curtin! Curtin! Where are you? Curtin! I gotta get ahold of myself! Mustn't lose my head. There's one thing certain, he ain't here. I got it. The tiger. Yeah, yeah that's it. The tiger must have dragged him off to his lair, that's what. Yeah, pretty soon, not even the bones will be left to tell the story. Done as if by order.
Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep (1946)"
Fred C. Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
That bandit with the Gold Hat that rode alongside the train - I had my sights on him nice as you please, but the train gave a jolt and I missed him. Sure wish I'd got him.
Fred C. Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
I stick my neck out for nobody.
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
Fred C. Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
I've no earthly reason to think I can trust you, and, if I do this and get away with it, you'll have something on me that you can use whenever you want to. Since I've got something on you, I couldn't be sure that you wouldn't put a hole in me some day. All those are on one side. Maybe some of them are unimportant - I won't argue about that - but look at the number of them. And what have we got on the other side? All we've got is that maybe you love me and maybe I love you.
Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep (1946)"
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
Fred C. Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"
[to Rose, as she is emptying his gin into the river] Oh, Miss. Oh, have pity, Miss. You don't know what you're doing Miss. I'll perish without a hair of the dog. Oh Miss, it ain't your property.
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep (1946)"
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
I've got to keep in some sort of touch with all the loose ends of this dizzy affair if I'm ever gonna make heads or tails of it.
Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep (1946)"
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's-it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere.
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep (1946)"
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
You can't catch me sleepin'...Don't you ever believe that. I'm not that dumb. The day you try to put anything over on me will be a costly one for both of you...Any more lip out of you and I'll haul off and let ya have it. If ya know what's good for ya, ya won't monkey around with Fred C. Dobbs.
Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep (1946)"
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
Rick Blaine in "Casablanca"
Fred C. Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
What a time we've had, Rosie. What a time. We'll never lack for stories to tell our grandchildren, will we?
Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon (1941)"
Frank McCloud in "Key Largo"
Philip Marlowe in "The Big Sleep (1946)"
Fred C. Dobbs in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen"