Operator 13 (1934)

Gary Cooper: Capt. Jack Gailliard

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Quotes 

• Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A. : [disguised in blackface]  You're horse looks kinda droopy. Come a long way, ain't cha?

  Gail Loveless : You know, Lucille, some day that snoopy little nose of yours is gonna lead you right into trouble.

  Gail Loveless : No, sah, but if it do, des two feet of mine's gonna get me right out!

  [laughs] 

• Gail Loveless : [disguised in blackface]  You're a stranger here, ain't cha? I'll bet come from general headquarters in Richmond.

  Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A. : I'll bet you're a nosy little so-and-so, aren't you?

  Gail Loveless : Yes, sah.

• Gen. Stuart : There's a ball tonight at the home of Mrs. Dandridge. Would you, Capt. Gailliard, delay your return to Richmond for a day and attend that ball? Sort of, lend us your aid? The spy, whoever he is, will be there or thereabouts, you may depend on it.

  Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A. : It'll take less reason than that to lead me to a room full of beautiful ladies, sir.

• Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A. : Run along, little brown girl.

• Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A. : I met the girl twice. Once at the river and, again, I bumped into her in the garden. She seemed just a pretty colored girl without a thought in her mind; but, men.

• Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A. : We must all forget. Forget war. Forget hate. Forget division.

  Gail Loveless : And remember only loyalty - and love.

• Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A. : I'm not a woman who lets people befriend her because she is a woman and then stabs 'em in the back. I'm not a woman who gains the confidence of a sweet, trusting girl and destroys her life's happiness.

• Gail Loveless : War is the cruelest thing in the world. I hate it! I hate it!

  [sobs] 

  Captain Jack Gailliard C.S.A. : I know. - - War teaches one thing: to live while we can.