The Devil quotes
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Do hope this isn't an awkward moment.
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After walking in on Stanley Moon's failed suicide attempt
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You realize that suicide's a criminal offence. In less enlightened times, they'd have hung you for it.
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You fill me with inertia.
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Spoken as musical performer Drimble Wedge
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What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages.
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Pick your clothes up. You're due down at the Foreign Office.
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To Lust, in a reference to the Profumo Affair.
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What would you like to be? Prime Minister? Oh, no, wait, I've already signed that deal.
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Bargaining for Stanley's soul, most likely referring to Harold Wilson, the prime minister at the time.
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The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.
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There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas — I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising.
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It's the standard contract. Gives you seven wishes in accordance with the mystic rules of life. Seven Days of the Week, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Seas, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers —
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The latter also directed by Donen.
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Release your doo-dahs.
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To a pigeon about to fly over a man
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In the words of Marcel Proust — and this applies to any woman in the world — if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is, that they're coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning — you're in!
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I lost Mussolini that way, all that work, then right at the end with the rope around his neck, he says, 'Scusi. Mille regretti,' and up he goes!"
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Regarding last minute repentance; Mussolini was actually shot.
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Everything I've ever told you's been a lie, including that.
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Don't ever believe anything I've said; believe me.
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And the magic word: Julie Andrews!
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Just putting a tiny little ventilation hole in this oil tanker.
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He's OMNIPRESENT. I'm just highly maneuverable.
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Tell God not to go away. I'll be back in a minute.
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I've done a good deed. I gave that little twit his soul back. Wasn't that generous?
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All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder you've so few friends; you're unbelievable!
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To God.