Modesty Blaise (1966)
Monica Vitti: Modesty Blaise
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Quotes
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Amsterdam guide : [after a boat has blown up] Oh, I'm sorry about the explosion. It doesn't happen every day.
Modesty Blaise : I don't come every day.
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Gabriel : I am the villain of the piece and I have to condemn you.
Modesty Blaise : But I am the heroine. Don't I get away?
Gabriel : Perhaps.
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Willie Garvin : Here. We now have been through some scrapes together, have we? Funny how we always survived, isn't it?
Modesty Blaise : [licking on a large ice cream cone] Survived... each other?
Willie Garvin : Well, we shared the fights.
Modesty Blaise : But never shared the nights.
Willie Garvin : Perhaps we should've.
Modesty Blaise : We could've.
Willie Garvin : [he starts singing] At Covent Garden, il Trovatore, we were shot at in the stalls.
Modesty Blaise : [she starts singing] They all believed it was in the story.
Willie Garvin : And we took nine curtain calls.
Modesty Blaise : Perhaps eight would have been enough.
Willie Garvin : We've shared the thrills.
Modesty Blaise : We've even shared the kills.
Willie Garvin : But such a perfect pair, should surely share a bedroom.
Modesty Blaise : You know, it's cheaper, too.
Willie Garvin : It ain't. The other Summer, in Arizona, I was sentenced to the chair.
Modesty Blaise : But they didn't realize I knew the owner of the power station there.
Willie Garvin , Modesty Blaise : We've bombed and mined, but never intertwined.
Willie Garvin : We were crazy, you know.
Modesty Blaise : I was lazy.
Willie Garvin : I know.
Willie Garvin , Modesty Blaise : Yes, we should've, and we could've. Perhaps we can...
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Gabriel : Suffragette!
Modesty Blaise : Psychopath!
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Mrs. Fothergill : [Noticing a tattoo scorpion on Modesty's leg when she grabs it] Ah... Scorpio.
Modesty Blaise : There's a sting in my tail. Mmm-hmm.
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Modesty Blaise : Where are you taking me?
Gabriel : You are on board the Andronicus bound from Bizerte to Dubrovnik with a cargo of fruits and nuts.
Willie Garvin : He's a fruit merchant, see?
Modesty Blaise : He's a nut.
Gabriel : That's enough of that.
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Modesty Blaise : [Speaking of Gabriel's criminal career] The Royal Box at Ascot... picking pockets.
Gabriel : One has to start somewhere, you know.
Modesty Blaise : Your first mistake.
Gabriel : [Pointing his finger reprovingly] My last!
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Gabriel : You know, you really are very beautiful.
Modesty Blaise : I haven't been dead for two years.
Gabriel : Very good for one's image.
Modesty Blaise : Mmmm.
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Paul Hagan : Were you deceiving me, all the time in Paris?
Modesty Blaise : Do you think I can control my heart beats?
Paul Hagan : Quite probably.
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Willie Garvin : I figure it this way, princess: Gabriel's got it figured; so, I figure, all's we got to do is - stay close to Gabriel.
Modesty Blaise : Leave the figuring to me, Willie. You might hurt yourself.
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Modesty Blaise : He's the sort of man I could marry.
Sir Gerald Tarrant : Modesty Blaise - someone's private property? Never.
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[first lines]
Modesty Blaise : Mmmm. Thank you. Read it to me, please.
Weng : Scorpio. Not like you to be lazy.
Modesty Blaise : No.
Weng : But, today it is an effort to exert yourself. Best to turn your attention to anything new, as this will be a stimulant. Don't take a partner for granted.
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Paul Hagan : You two-faced, cold blooded, calculating...
Modesty Blaise : Not - cold-blood, please.
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Sheik Abu Tahir : We're alone. Modesty, who is - the enemy?
Modesty Blaise : I don't know yet.
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Paul Hagan : I ought to strangle you.
Modesty Blaise : Try.
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Willie Garvin : Home to bed? Why not?
Modesty Blaise : Why not?
Willie Garvin : Why not?
Modesty Blaise : Why not?
Willie Garvin : Why not?
Modesty Blaise : Why not?
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Gabriel : I offer you a flag of truce - and a delicious breakfast.
Modesty Blaise : If you have a good champagne.
Gabriel : Excellent!
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Gabriel : Your Brussels job - superb. Two Botticellis, one Grandma Moses.
Modesty Blaise : One Botticelli and two Grandma Moseses.
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Gabriel : You know, we should be partners, you know.
Modesty Blaise : Oh, if I gave the orders.
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Modesty Blaise , Willie Garvin : [singing] Yes, we should do, And we could do, Now, we can!
