Journey Into Fear (1943)

Eustace Wyatt: Prof. Haller, Muller

Quotes 

• Prof. Haller : Won't you join me, Mr. Graham? I'm just getting some fresh air.

  Howard Graham : Oh.

  Prof. Haller : [standing at the ship's railing, looking into the distance]  To see the land from a ship, or to see a ship from the land, I used to like both. Now I dislike both. When a man reaches my age, he grows, I think, to resent subconsciously the movement of everything except the respiratory muscles which keep him alive. Movement is change. And to an old man, change means death.

• Prof. Haller : He interests me, this Kuvetli. He has a way of talking without saying anything.

  Howard Graham : Maybe it's got something to do with his being a salesman.

• Prof. Haller : My name is Haller, Dr. Fritz Haller.

  Howard Graham : Mine is Howard Graham.

  Prof. Haller : I should explain I am a German. A good German of the former Germany. I am on my way back to Tehran. I am travelling on a League of Nations passport.

• Howard Graham : You've been long in Turkey?

  Prof. Haller : A few weeks. I came there from Persia.

  Howard Graham : Oil?

  Prof. Haller : No, Mr. Graham. Archaeology.

  Howard Graham : Oh.

  Prof. Haller : I was investigating the early pre-Islamic cultures. Forgive me, I am boring you already.

• Prof. Haller : I thought I had better keep this for Mavrodopoulos.

  Howard Graham : Banat! Banat's easier to say.