Emma Peel: I suppose Mother warned you about women like me?
John Steed: Until now, I didn't know there were women like you.
John Steed: So much for science, I'll stick to swordplay.
Sir August de Winter: A man with an umbrella is a man praying for rain.
John Steed: And a man without one is a fool.
John Steed: Mrs. Peel, you're needed.
John Steed: Oh, just one thing.
Emma Peel: Good luck?
John Steed: Something like that.
Harry Hawkes: Honesty is the greatest fidelity.
Paul De Smedt: Yeah, well, the world is not ready for your honesty.
Paul De Smedt: You're obscene.
Harry Hawkes: We're all obscene. Everyone's obscene. That's the whole fucking point. We see it and we love each other anyway.
Paul De Smedt: Harry, come on, that's a grave.
Harry Hawkes: Yeah, well, Europe is a grave.
Lawrence: Five times I cast my vote for you, Aldo. But I was wrong. You lack the courage to be Pope.
Justin Quayle: Your life is your own. That was always our agreement.
Tessa Quayle: No, no, no. The agreement was, that my work was going to be my own. That's what makes me who I am.
Sarah: Are you on a new book?
Maurice Bendrix: Of course.
Sarah: It's not about us, is it? The one you threatened to write?
Maurice Bendrix: A book takes a year to write. It's too hard work for revenge.
Sarah: If only you knew how little you had to revenge.
Maurice Bendrix: I'm joking. We are adults. We knew it had to end some time. Now we can have lunch and talk about your husband.
Maurice Bendrix: To be is to be perceived.
Maurice Bendrix: I hate you, God. I hate you as though you existed.
Sarah: Love doesn't end, just because we don't see each other.
Maurice Bendrix: Doesn't it?
Sarah: People go on loving God, don't they? All their lives. Without seeing him.
Maurice Bendrix: That's not my kind of love.
Sarah: Maybe there is no other kind.
Maurice Bendrix: I'm jealous of this stocking.
Sarah Miles: Why?
Maurice Bendrix: Because it does what I can't. Kisses your whole leg. And I'm jealous of this button.
Sarah Miles: Poor, innocent button.
Maurice Bendrix: It's not innocent at all. It's with you all day. I'm not.
Sarah Miles: I suppose you're jealous of my shoes?
Maurice Bendrix: Yes.
Sarah Miles: Why?
Maurice Bendrix: Because they'll take you away from me.
Maurice Bendrix: I am a jealous man.
Hana: There's a man downstairs. He brought us eggs. He might stay.
Almásy: Why? Can he lay eggs?
Hana: He's Canadian.
Almásy: Why are people always so happy when they collide with someone from the same place? What happened in Montreal when you passed a man in the street? Did you invite him to live with you?
Almásy: When were you most happy?
Katharine Clifton: Now.
Almásy: And when were you least happy?
Katharine Clifton: Now.
Almásy: I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed at the horizon and said, "Faya!" That was a good day.
Almásy: I once heard of a captain who wore a patch over a good eye. The men fought harder for him.
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