The Spanish Prisoner

The Spanish Prisoner Quotes

An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that.

George Lang: Worry is like interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
Jimmy Dell: I think you'll find that if what you've done for them is as valuable as you say it is, if they are indebted to you morally but not legally, my experience is they will give you nothing, and they will begin to act cruelly toward you.
Joe Ross: Why?
Jimmy Dell: To suppress their guilt.
Jimmy Dell: You now have a Swiss bank account if anybody asks. Crédit Nationale Du Génève code name 'PADDY'. Lavish awkward gesture. All of fifteen Swiss Francs in it, but if you ever want to impress anybody, they can find out you have a Swiss account. But, Swiss law prohibits the bank from revealing the balance. Thus are all men made equal.
Joe Ross: Funny old world.
Susan Ricci: Funny old world? Dog my cats!
Joe Ross: Dog my cats indeed.
Jimmy Dell: I'm a problem solver, with a heart of gold.
Detective Jones: Nobody looks at a Japanese tourist.
[last lines]
Susan Ricci: [being arrested] Can you help me? You're the Boy Scout. Can I be your good deed for today? Can't you help me, Joe?
Joe Ross: I'm afraid you're gonna have to spend some time in your room.
Joe Ross: You could call me Joe.
Susan Ricci: Yeah, long as I didn't take that as inducement to, you know, further intimacy.
Susan Ricci: When you own the company, can I be Queen?
Susan Ricci: Next time, be born Italian.
Jimmy Dell: Good people, bad people, they generally look like what they are.
Susan Ricci: It shows to go you, you never know who anybody is.
Jimmy Dell: Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
Mr. Klein: If we all do our jobs, we will each be rewarded according to our just desserts.
George Lang: I put a thief in my mouth to steal my brain.
FBI Team Leader: It's an interesting setup, Mr. Ross. It is the oldest confidence game on the books. The Spanish Prisoner. Fellow says him and his sister, wealthy refugees, left a fortune in the home country. He got out, girl and the money stuck in Spain. Here is her most beautiful portrait. And he needs money to get her and the fortune out. Man who supplies the money gets the fortune and the girl. Oldest con in the world.
Susan Ricci: You never know who anybody is, except me. I am who I am.
George Lang: Beware of all enterprises which require new clothes.
Jimmy Dell: Do the American thing.
Joe Ross: What's that?
Jimmy Dell: Marry a rich widow.
Joe Ross: We used to say, a nymphomaniac who owns a liquor store.
Susan Ricci: Who in this world is what they seem to be? Who?
George Lang: How are things in the outer office?
Susan Ricci: My troika was pursued by wolves.
George Lang: It's a good thing this cookie arrived unscathed.
[first lines]
Airport Security: What is the purpose of your trip, please?
Joe Ross: Business.
Airport Security: Thank you and welcome to St. Estéphe.
George Lang: Nobody going on a business trip would have been missed if he never arrived.
Joe Ross: Stun gun? What if you missed?
United States Marshal: Well then, it would be back to the range for me...
George Lang: We must never forget that we are human, and as humans we dream, and when we dream we dream of money.

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