Quotes from Casablanca (1942)

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Claude Rains
Captain Renault: We are very honored tonight, Rick. Major Strasser is one of the reasons the Third Reich enjoys the reputation it has today.
Major Heinrich Strasser: You repeat Third Reich as though you expected there to be others!
Captain Renault: Well, personally, Major, I will take what comes.
- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

S.Z. Sakall
Woman: What makes saloonkeepers so snobbish?
Banker: Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam.
Carl: Second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.
- S.Z. Sakall (as Carl) in Casablanca (1942)

Claude Rains
[about Rick]
Major Strasser: You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American.
Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate "American blundering". I was with them when they "blundered" into Berlin in 1918.
- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

S.Z. Sakall
[after observing the gambling tables at Rick's]
Customer: Are you sure this place is honest?
Carl: Honest? As honest as the day is long!
- S.Z. Sakall (as Carl) in Casablanca (1942)

Humphrey Bogart
[Annina is contemplating Renault's offer of exit visas for sex]
Annina: Oh, monsieur, you are a man. If someone loved you very much, so that your happiness was the only thing that she wanted in the world, but she did a bad thing to make certain of it, could you forgive her?
Rick: Nobody ever loved me that much.
Annina: And he never knew, and the girl kept this bad thing locked in her heart? That would be all right, wouldn't it?
Rick: You want my advice?
Annina: Oh, yes, please.
Rick: Go back to Bulgaria.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca (1942)

Humphrey Bogart
[Annina is contemplating Renault's offer of exit visas for sex]
Annina: Oh, monsieur, you are a man. If someone loved you very much, so that your happiness was the only thing that she wanted in the world, but she did a bad thing to make certain of it, could you forgive her?
Rick: Nobody ever loved me that much.
Annina: And he never knew, and the girl kept this bad thing locked in her heart? That would be all right, wouldn't it?
Rick: You want my advice?
Annina: Oh, yes, please.
Rick: Go back to Bulgaria.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca (1942)

Humphrey Bogart
[denying an official of the German National Bank entrance to the casino]
Rick: Your cash is good at the bar.
Banker: What? Do you know who I am?
Rick: I do. You're lucky the *bar's* open to you.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca (1942)

Claude Rains
[Rick has been on a long drinking binge]
Emil: [serving Rick another drink] You are becoming your *own* best customer!
Captain Renault: [surprized] Why Ricky, I'm *pleased* with you- *Now* you're beginning to live like a *Frenchman*!
- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

Paul Henreid
Rick: Here it is.
[hands Lazlo the letters of transit]
Victor Laszlo: Thanks. I appreciate it. Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.
[airplane engines start]
- Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo) in Casablanca (1942)

Humphrey Bogart
Rick: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca (1942)

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