Quotes about Quips

Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

- Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca (1942)

Captain Renault: Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.

- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

Captain Renault: [seeing a uniformed French officer talking non-stop to an Italian officer] If he ever gets a word in, it'll be a major Italian victory.

- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

Captain Renault: By the way, last night you evinced an interest in Señor Ugarte.
Victor Laszlo: Yes.
Captain Renault: I believe you have a message for him?
Victor Laszlo: Nothing important, but may I speak to him now?
Major Heinrich Strasser: You would find the conversation a trifle one-sided. Señor Ugarte is dead.
Ilsa: Oh.
Captain Renault: I am making out the report now. We haven't quite decided yet whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.

- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

Aunt Alicia: Liane d'Exelmans has commited suicide... again!

- Isabel Jeans (as Aunt Alicia) in Gigi (1958)

Hotel doorman: Do you realize you gave me five pounds?
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Yes, I'm trying to lose weight.

- William Powell (as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.) in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Prince Feisal: You, I suspect, are chief architect of this compromise. What do you think?
Mr. Dryden: Me, your Highness? On the whole, I wish I'd stayed in Tunbridge Wells.

- Claude Rains (as Mr. Dryden) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Mr. Dryden: Lawrence, only two kinds of creature get fun in the desert: Bedouins and gods, and you're neither. Take it from me, for ordinary men, it's a burning, fiery furnace.
T.E. Lawrence: No, Dryden, it's going to be fun.
Mr. Dryden: It is recognized that you have a funny sense of fun.

- Claude Rains (as Mr. Dryden) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

General Allenby: I've got orders to obey, thank God. Not like that poor devil. He's riding the whirlwind.
Mr. Dryden: Let's hope we're not.

- Claude Rains (as Mr. Dryden) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Captain William Bligh: What's your name?
Seaman Thomas Ellison: Thomas Ellison, sir. Pressed into service. I've got a wife, a baby!
Captain William Bligh: I asked your name, not the history of your misfortunes.

- Charles Laughton (as Bligh) in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)