27 quotes
To all things an end, to every night its dawn; even to the longest night when dawn never comes, there comes at last the dawn.
HMS Ulysses (1955)
Every man is what environment and heredity make him.
HMS Ulysses (1955)
“It is no small thing, Major, to be lost in a blizzard in the night skies over war-torn Europe.”
Where Eagles Dare (1967)
"The intolerance of ignorance, not wanting to know – that is the last real frontier on earth."
The Last Frontier (1959)
Being at the wrong end of a Schmeisser machine pistol does not make for an easy cordiality in relationships.
Where Eagles Dare (1967)
"A terrified rat will swear to anything."
River of Death (1981)
Unspecified exhortation, when translated into practice, is always liable to a certain amount of executive misdirection.
Puppet on a Chain (1969)
The motorcycle patrol’s decision to elect for discretion in lieu of suicidal valour was as immediate as it was automatic.
Where Eagles Dare (1967)
But, delusions or not, he had had, as he deluded so often had—to the dismay and consternation of their allegedly saner brethren—impeccable taste.
Where Eagles Dare (1967)
Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing mankind really is
HMS Ulysses (1955)
Women, I thought: if they fell over a cliff and thought there was company waiting at the bottom, they'd comb their hair on the way down.
Fear Is the Key (1961)
When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.
Caravan to Vaccarès (1970)
She plunged down and kept on going down, driving down to the black floor of the Arctic, driven down by the madly spinning screws, the still thundering engines her own executioner.
HMS Ulysses (1955)
Big crime is big business, and big criminals are big businessmen, running their illegal activities with all the meticulous care and administrative precision of their more law-abiding colleagues.
Fear Is the Key (1961)
“Well, what did I tell you?” von Brauchitsch said expansively. “Coffee to match the surroundings!”
Coffee to match the surroundings, Mary thought, would have tasted of hemlock.
Where Eagles Dare (1967)
She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.
Fear Is the Key (1961)
"Cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They have been with us since the world began and are still with us, in every country in the world."
The Last Frontier (1959)
With a face and a figure and an acting talent like that, she could have had Hollywood tramping a path of beaten gold to her doorstep.
Where Eagles Dare (1967)
The moment when a man hears that a girl's fiance has died only that day is the last moment that that man should ever begin to fall in love with her, but I'm afraid that's just how it was. The emotions are no respecters of the niceties, the proprieties and decencies of this life.
Night Without End (1959)
I should have listened to Hunslett. Again I should have listened to Hunslett. And again for Hunslett's sake. But I didn't know then that Hunslett was to have time for all the sleep in the world.
When Eight Bells Toll (1966)