The Detective (1954)
Bernard Lee: Inspector Valentine
Quotes
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French Widow : [referring to smoking] Disgusting habit!
French Cavalry Officer : But a very useful one sometimes. A friend of mine, Captain Chavasse of the Foreign Legion, leg half shot off. No anesthetic. Smoked a pipe all through the operation. Never felt a thing.
Inspector Valentine : Good lord. What was he smoking?
French Cavalry Officer : Opium.
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Inspector Valentine : [after failing to commandeer a taxi with a couple kissing in the back] Don't the police in France come before a pair of lovers?
Inspector Dubois : In Paris, on a warm afternoon? I'm afraid not.
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Inspector Valentine : [the inspector has just phoned in an all-points bulletin for a stolen milk truck] Your accomplices haven't got a chance. They'll be intercepted within half an hour.
Lady Warren : Half an hour? Then you've time for a glass of sherry.
Inspector Valentine : No thank you.
Lady Warren : Or perhaps a glass of milk? The milkman seems to have left rather a lot today.
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Inspector Valentine : You'd've made things much easier for us both if you'd told us what you know of Flambeau.
Father Brown : I cannot tell you what I do not know. All I know is that he walks upon two legs and his head grows above his shoulders.
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Inspector Valentine : Well?
Inspector Dubois : He is going to the wine harvest, and the grape waits for no man.
Inspector Valentine : Nor does Father Brown.
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Inspector Valentine : You should have been a salesman father!
Father Brown : In a way, I am.