Rope of Sand (1949)

Claude Rains: Arthur Martingale

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Quotes 

• Suzanne Renaud : Now do you want to kiss me?

  Fred Martingale : N - no, I think not. You'd better keep your kisses for emergencies.

• Fred Martingale : I'm being constantly disillusioned. Has money completely lost its power? Is everyone motivated now by love?

• Fred Martingale : Speaking for myself, I have an enormous antipathy toward dying.

• Suzanne Renaud : Believe me, he will tell me now.

  Fred Martingale : How do I know I can trust you? I can't compete with love.

  [He goes to his humidor for a cigar and seems to change his mind] 

  Fred Martingale : Why will i never learn? The most dangerous thing about completely immoral women is their tremendous unused and unpredictable reserve of honest feeling.

• Fred Martingale : [to Mike Davis]  I never know what to think anymore. I'm being constantly disillusioned. Has money completely lost its power? Is everyone motivated now by love? The diamonds for the girl? Really, my dear Michael, she's not worth it.

• Suzanne Renaud : Of course, if you're a man of principle...

  Fred Martingale : I take it you're quite experienced.

  Suzanne Renaud : The German is brittle. The Frenchman cries l'amour! The American is hoping for the cavalry to come.

  Fred Martingale : And what do Englishmen do?

  Suzanne Renaud : They pay.

• Fred Martingale : [Realizing Suzanne has trapped him in the badger game]  I suppose this is what I deserve for forgetting my age... but I am unmarried.

• Fred Martingale : [to Suzanne]  You know, you must have been such a sweet girl once.

• Fred Martingale : [realizing Suzanne has trapped him in the badger game]  I suppose this is what I deserve for forgetting my age... but I am unmarried.

• Fred Martingale : [of Vogel]  You know, in his way, he was quite a remarkable fellow - nasty, but remarkable.