Memorable Quotes from Omar Sharif
8 quotesThe Blindness of Justice in High Places
Liesowski
But what happens if the murderer really is a general?
Major Grau
What happens? Well, justice is blind, my dear Inspector. Justice cannot see the red stripe or the gold braid, but justice can sometimes hear the cry of a murdered woman.
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Political Intrigue Among Persian Princes
Prince Memucan
Think not I heard your whispered orchestrations that night and how you drew even me into your schemes!
[very anxious]
Prince Admantha
In these troubled time, it is easy to name any man traitor! I even recall a certain campaign in Ionia, under King Darius; where someone allowed the defeated Greeks to keep their own form of government. Their democracy, instead of placing the protocol of the empire in control; favoring democracy. They doctrine to which all Persia is opposed.
[snapping]
Prince Memucan
I followed orders!
[indignant, turning to leave]
Prince Admantha
Come. Come. Come. Come. We trouble ourselves with foolish things. The King asked me to speak, I did. I obeyed as you did.
[stopping him, chuckling a little]
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Accountability in Unaccounted Actions
Major Grau
Preliminary investigation has established that each of you was... well... unaccounted for last night.
General Tanz
To whom should we be accountable, Major?
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Auda and Ali's Tense Exchange
Auda abu Tayi
It is Auda of the Howitat who speaks.
Sherif Ali
It is Ali of the Harith who answers.
Auda abu Tayi
Harith! Ali... does your father still steal?
Sherif Ali
No. Does Auda take me for one of his own bastards?
Auda abu Tayi
No, there is no resemblance. Alas, you resemble your father.
Sherif Ali
Auda flatters me.
Auda abu Tayi
You're easily flattered. I knew your father well.
Sherif Ali
(pause) (To Auda) Did you know your own?
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A Dispute Over a Well
Sherif Ali
He is dead.
[Ali shoots Tafas dead while riding his camel. He stops his camel and jumps down to examine Tafas' body]
T.E. Lawrence
Yes... why?
Sherif Ali
This is my well.
[mentioning the well Lawrence and Tafas are resting at]
T.E. Lawrence
I have drunk from it.
Sherif Ali
You are welcome.
T.E. Lawrence
He was my friend.
Sherif Ali
That?
[mentioning Tafas]
T.E. Lawrence
Yes, that.
Sherif Ali
Yours?
[Ali walks towards Lawrence and grabs Tafas' revolver lying on the sand]
T.E. Lawrence
No, his.
Sherif Ali
His?
[Ali tucks the revolver into his waist and walks towards the well; mentioning the tin cup near the well]
T.E. Lawrence
Mine.
Sherif Ali
Then I will use it.
[pulls some water out of well]
Sherif Ali
... your friend... was a Hazimi of the Beni Salem.
T.E. Lawrence
I know.
Sherif Ali
I am Ali ibn el Kharish.
[Ali salutes Lawrence and drinks his water]
T.E. Lawrence
I have heard of you.
Sherif Ali
So... What was a Hazimi doing here?
T.E. Lawrence
He was taking me to help Prince Feisal.
Sherif Ali
You've been sent from Cairo?
T.E. Lawrence
Yes.
Sherif Ali
I have been in Cairo for my schooling. I can both read and write... my Lord Feisal already has an Englishman.
T.E. Lawrence
Yes.
Sherif Ali
What is your name?
T.E. Lawrence
My name is for my friend. None of my friends is a murderer.
[Ali walks away]
Sherif Ali
You are angry, English. He was nothing. The well is everything... The Hazimi may not drink at our wells. He knew that... Salaam.
[Ali climbs his camel]
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Misunderstanding Over Dropped Item
Agent Cedric
Wait. You dropped your phony dog poo.
Blindman
What phony dog poo?
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Revelations About Maria Kupiecka's True Identity
Liesowski
Her name was Kupiecka. Maria Kupiecka.
Captain Engel
Kupiecka? Oh, yes, she was a prostitute. And a good friend to us!
Liesowski
She was also a German agent.
Major Grau
Killed by a Polish patriot?
Liesowski
Providing the Polish patriot was also a sexual degenerate.
Major Grau
Patriotism has been known to have its vicious side.
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A Colonel's Unexpected Entrance
Inspector Morand
Welcome, Colonel Grau, to the spider's web.
Major Grau
How did you know it was me?
Inspector Morand
What other German Colonel would enter unannounced?
Major Grau
Any SS Colonel would.
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