Colonel Robinson:
[To Rudick] In international diplomacy, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line.
Colonel Robinson:
Curious touch of the grotesque: A dead man on the floor; a condemned man sitting before me; and a Strauss waltz as a funeral march. What could be more entertaining?
Colonel Robinson:
They're taking you downstairs to the cellars. You'll be separated from this room by several meters of stonework, but I think I'll be able to hear your reactions to Capt. Mailler's persuasive methods.