The Interrogator: You fake! The hero of the resistance who outwitted the Gestapo for his own vanity. The martyr for the Church whose only resistance is for his own pride. His Eminence, the Cardinal, who could steal the estimation of the world to justify a miserable little tyke of a backstreet drab who smelt of fish!
The Cardinal: Forgiveness!
The Interrogator: Did you preach forgiveness up there in your fine pulpit, forgiveness for those who stole?
The Cardinal: Of course.
The Interrogator: Didn't they have to give back what they'd stolen?
The Cardinal: How can you give back honor?


--Alec Guinness (as The Cardinal) in The Prisoner

The Interrogator: You're an enemy of society, like the schizophrenic, of the paranoiac. You're dangerous, because you mislead the poor, the uneducated, the silly. Only because you're wrongheaded. In time, we'll get to the root of the trouble. And you can be cured.
The Cardinal: Your believe it?
The Interrogator: Yes, I do believe it.
The Cardinal: God give me cunning against your skill.


--Alec Guinness (as The Cardinal) in The Prisoner

The Jailer: They look different after a few months in solitary, don't they, sir?


--Alec Guinness (as The Cardinal) in The Prisoner

The Parson: [Describing his country church] I always say my West window has all the *exuberance* of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.


--Alec Guinness (as The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha) in Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Parson: The port is with you


--Alec Guinness (as The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha) in Kind Hearts and Coronets

Whimple: How much I prefer vegetables to human beings.


--Alec Guinness (as Whimple) in A Run for Your Money

Shorty: Okay, you're the boss.
Henry Holland: Yes. Yes, that's right - I am.


--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob

Turner: Paris, eh? You're stepping out, Holland. Wonderful, isn't it, what a little extra money will do?
Henry Holland: Yes, it's going to make a big difference to me.


--Alec Guinness (as Henry Holland) in The Lavender Hill Mob

Hodges: Are you sure that Sir and Lady Beeder are expecting you?
Gulley Jimson: Expecting me? They're down on their knees praying for me.


--Alec Guinness (as Gulley Jimson) in The Horse's Mouth

Livius: A few days longer, Caesar, we'll bring you his head.
Marcus Aurelius: No Livius, please don't bring me his head. I wouldn't know what to do with it.


--Alec Guinness (as Marcus Aurelius) in The Fall of the Roman Empire