Quotes tagged ‘Nazi Movies’

“A wink from a pretty girl at a party results rarely in climax, Karl. But a man is a fool not to push a suggestion as far as it will go.”

— Tom Mankiewicz, Col. Max Radl, Robert Duvall, imdb.com

“And the Germans claim to be intelligent! You know what I think, I think they are totally stupid. I have a family to feed. I spend half my time here, waiting for them to let us through. Why do they think I come here, to listen to the music?”

— Ronald Harwood, Man Waiting to Cross, Anthony Milner, imdb.com

“Maj. Hugh Tarkington: You know Rommel? Capt. Heinz Schroeder: Yes. He loves the Sahara. We all do. By 'we,' I mean the professional military. Maj. Hugh Tarkington: I'm not a military man, captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive. Capt. Heinz Schroeder: Here there are no s…”

— Richard M. Bluel, Maj. Hugh Tarkington, Clinton Greyn, imdb.com

“My work is very important to our country and to you. We're working very hard to make the world better for you.”

— Mark Herman, Father, David Thewlis, imdb.com

“Mary Ellison: You must be mad. Major John Smith: If I wasn't, what would I be doing in this job?”

— Alistair MacLean, Mary Elison, Mary Ure, imdb.com

“[It's] too late for me. I'm seventy now—too old to fight, too old to challenge authority, however evil... but not too old, however, to wish you and your friends the best of luck in their extremely interesting enterprise.”

— Nunnally Johnson, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, Leo G. Carroll, imdb.com

“Max Rothman: So you're an anti-Semite. Adolf Hitler: On the contrary, I admire the Jews. Max Rothman: Really? Adolf Hitler: Yes, they're very intelligent people. Max Rothman: Well, there are intelligent ones and not so intelligent ones...of their blood. Adolf Hitler: No, no, no, they're all intellig…”

— Menno Meyjes, Adolf Hitler, Noah Taylor, imdb.com

“Outside it is windy, but inside it is so hot, every night we have ze battle to keep the girls from taking off all their clothing. So don't go away, who knows? Tonight we may lose the battle!”

— Jay Presson Allen, Master of Ceremonies, Joel Grey, imdb.com

“One German, a fine man. Two Germans, a bund. Three Germans, a war. One Englishman, an idiot. Two Englishmen, a club. Three Englishmen, an Empire.”

— Joseph E. Persico, David W. Rintels, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Brian Cox, imdb.com

“Hoffmann: No one wants to read about Jews. Peter Miller: They were GERMANS! Hoffmann: They were German Jews.”

— Kenneth Ross, George Markstein, Hoffmann, Werner Bruhns, imdb.com

“We must forget if we want to go on living”

— Abby Mann, Montgomery Clift, Mrs. Bertholt, Marlene Dietrich, imdb.com

“Jan Kubis: If it was peacetime, suddenly, now...what would you do? Anna: I'd go out and buy a dress. A bright, red dress made of silk. Jan Kubis: I'd see a good football match. Maybe get drunk afterwards.”

— Ronald Harwood, Jan Kubis, Timothy Bottoms, imdb.com

“Trucks came to pick up the children at the mental hospital. The other children asked where they were going. ‘They're going to heaven,’ said the nurses. So the children got on the truck singing. You think I wasn't raised right, because I felt pity for them?”

— Fred Breinersdorfer, Sophie Magdalena Scholl, Julia Jentsch, imdb.com

“This whole beautiful country, to which we have given our souls, is utterly doomed. It's going to be wiped out of human memory. Our entire heritage, even our name, our ancestors' names, wiped out, all wiped out!”

— Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff, Count von Kaltenborn, Armin Mueller-Stahl, imdb.com

“It's good fortune for the government that the masses don't think. Otherwise, human society as we know it might cease to exist.”

— Ennio De Concini, Maria Pia Fusco, Wolfgang Reinhardt, Adolf Hitler, Alec Guinness, imdb.com

“Except for you, I have no use for Jews.”

— David Seltzer, Margrete Von Eberstein, Joely Richardson, imdb.com

“In war, decisions almost always have to be taken on incomplete knowledge. If you wait until you're certain, you're sure to be too late.”

— Emeric Pressburger, Duilio Coletti, Vittoriano Petrilli, Derry Quinn, Ray Rigby, imdb.com

“All I can say is that the same God you're accusing, came and lived in the midst of this world. He was beaten and He was mocked and He died on a cross and He did it for love, for us.”

— Lawrence Holben, Allan Sloane, Corrie ten Boom, Jeannette Clift, imdb.com

“Do you know what I saw on the television in my motel room at one o'clock this morning? Films of Hitler! They are showing films about the war! The movement! People are fascinated! The time is ripe! Adolf Hitler is alive!”

— Heywood Gould, Dr. Josef Mengele, Gregory Peck, imdb.com

“It would take you too long to strangle a man, Colonel. The average Nazi would get impatient while you were doing it.”

— Wendell Mayes, Major Eric Fincham, Trevor Howard, imdb.com