The V.I.P.s, 1963

"Duchess of Brighton: I have two enormous pills to steady me down 

and the two pep-pills I took this morning - the pep-up pills. I'm flying already!"

"Paul Andros: Pay no attention. Drunks cry very easily. It's only the whiskey."

"Frances Andros: I know it is foolishly sentimental to want to sit next 

to the man that you are eloping with."

"Frances Andros: For most of those thirteen years I've loved him. But I don't know him."

"Marc Champselle: You? Why should you be scared of him?
Frances Andros: As a child I was scared of the dark."

"Max Buda: Not that one. That one!
Gloria Gritti: How do you know what is in my hand?
Max Buda: Because I know what is in your head.
Gloria Gritti: So, I have nothing in my head.
Max Buda: Don't quote that."

"Frances Andros: You so much want looking after.
And I so much want to look after you."

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"Frances Andros: That is what I love you for. That I can make fun of you."

"Marc Champselle: 'No' is not a word that I recognise.
Frances Andros: You've recognised it for the past three months." 

"Frances Andros: I love you for what you are. Not what you think you are."

Stills

  

The V.I.P.s, 1963

The Spy who came from the Cold, 1965

"I'm a man, you fool. Don't you understand? A plain, simple, muddled, fat-headed human being ... I reserve the right to be ignorant. That's the Western way of life."

Alec Leamas played by Richard Burton via Criterion 

 

"What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? 

They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, hen-pecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?"

The Spy who came from the Cold, 1965