Trevor Howard movie quotes

View Quote Now don't mistake me. I'm not advising cruelty or brutality with no purpose. My point is that cruelty with purpose is not cruelty - it's efficiency. Then a man will never disobey once he's watched his mate's backbone laid bare. He'll see the flesh jump, hear the whistle of the whip for the rest of his life.

View Quote It is a matter of supernatural indifference to me whether you contaminate the natives or the natives contaminate you. I have but one concern - our mission. Let one of you provoke an incident which endangers it and I shall cause that man to curse his mother for giving him birth.

View Quote The king's navy will not rest until every mutineer is captured and executed. Wherever you go, wherever you hide a thousand ships will search you out.

View Quote Martins: Well, what’s this? Where are we?
Paine: It’s the main sewer. Runs right into the blue Danube. Smells sweet, doesn’t it?
Calloway: We should have dug deeper than a grave.

View Quote Calloway: You’re going to hear the facts.
Martins: You haven’t told me a single one yet.
Calloway: Have you ever heard of penicillin?
Martins: Well?
Calloway: In Vienna, there hasn’t been enough penicillin to go around. So a nice trade started here. Stealing penicillin from the military hospitals, diluting it to make it go further and selling it to patients. Do you see what that means?
Martins: Are you too busy chasing a few tubes of penicillin to investigate a murder?
Calloway: These were murders. Men with gangrened legs, women in childbirth. And there were children too. They used some of this diluted penicillin against meningitis. The lucky children died. The unlucky ones went off their heads. You can see them now in the mental ward. That was the racket Harry Lime organized.

View Quote Martins: I guess nobody knew Harry like he did, like I did.
Calloway: How long ago?
Martins: Back in school. I was never so lonesome in my life till he showed up.
Calloway: When did you see him last?
Martins: September, '39.
Calloway: When the business started?
Martins: Mmm, hmm.
Calloway: See much of him before that?
Martins: Once in a while. Best friend I ever had.
Calloway: That sounds like a cheap novelette.
Martins: I write cheap novelettes.

View Quote Dr. Barney Barnes: I gave nitrous oxide at first, to get him under.
Cockrill: Oh yes, stuff the dentist gives you, hmmm — commonly known as "laughing gas".
Dr. Barnes: Used to be — actually the impurities cause the laughs.
Cockrill: Oh, just the same as in our music halls.

View Quote Dr. Barnes: So, without bothering to inquire, you scare the life out of her, like any flat-footed cooper off the beat.
Inspector Cockrill: The police force has not a monopoly of fallen arches, Dr. Barnes - ask any chiropodist.

View Quote Sister Bates: You know it's the truth. If he wanted to marry her, do you think she'd hesitate if you weren't here?
Dr. Barnes: Well, I am here.
Sister Bates: You won't be much longer, not if he knows about it.