Sydney Walker: Arthur Quaile

Quotes 

• Quaile : What do you know about Bibles?

  China Smith : Bibles? Well, more than a heathen but less than a priest.

• [Quaile wants to hire Smith to steal his bible back from a Communist colonel] 

  Quaile : I know it's dangerous...

  China Smith : Dangerous? For two thousand dollars, it's ridiculous. Getting in and out of North Indochina is tough enough.

  Quaile : Twenty-five hundred.

  China Smith : And that's to burgle an army officer's house, too?

  Quaile : Three thousand and all expenses.

  China Smith : Including burial?

  Quaile : Four! I'd go myself, but... Will you please help me?

  China Smith : You just hired a Smith! It's a fine nice word, "please". And you'd have saved yourself some money if you'd used it sooner.

• Quaile : That man - I think he works for a man named Banning. I made the mistake of showing him my Gutenberg Bible. He and his niece have been after it ever since.

  China Smith : You'd do well to show it to them again - if only to let them read the Commandments.