Akim Tamiroff
(as Farid)
Lt. Schwegler:
[checking his guidebook entry about the hotel] You have a native cook by the name of Berek.
Farid: [nervous] Terek, sir. Terek. Yes, sir. But he ran away this morning. With the British to Alexandria.
Lt. Schwegler: [checking the guidebook] You have a wife.
Farid: Oh, yes, sir. Yes. But *she* run away. Yes, sir.
Lt. Schwegler: With the British to Alexandria?
Farid: [sadly] No, sir. With a Greek to Casablanca.
Farid: [nervous] Terek, sir. Terek. Yes, sir. But he ran away this morning. With the British to Alexandria.
Lt. Schwegler: [checking the guidebook] You have a wife.
Farid: Oh, yes, sir. Yes. But *she* run away. Yes, sir.
Lt. Schwegler: With the British to Alexandria?
Farid: [sadly] No, sir. With a Greek to Casablanca.
Anne Baxter
(as Mouche)
Mouche:
I'm not afraid of generals...
Lt. Schwegler: You're not?
Mouche: ...it's lieutenants I'm afraid of.
Lt. Schwegler: You're not?
Mouche: ...it's lieutenants I'm afraid of.
Franchot Tone
(as Cpl. John J. Bramble / Paul Davos)
Erich von Stroheim
(as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Field Marshal Rommel:
[to Mouche, as she serves him coffee in bed] Your hands are neat - why isn't the spoon?
Erich von Stroheim
(as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Erich von Stroheim
(as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Field Marshal Rommel:
[to the British officer-prisoners] I gave you 20 questions, gentlemen. That is question 21.
Erich von Stroheim
(as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Field Marshal Rommel:
[to the officers seated at the breakfast table] Rice pudding in Egypt - you never know if it's raisins - or flies!
Erich von Stroheim
(as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Field Marshal Rommel:
We shall take that big fat cigar out of Mr. Churchill's mouth and make him say Heil.
Fortunio Bonanova
(as Gen. Sebastiano)
[Sebastiano, an Italian general, has just learned that he has been assigned to a hotel room with no running water by the condescending German officers]
Gen. Sebastiano: Another kick in the face! They let us die, but they don't let us wash! Well, what did we expect? As we say in Milano, "When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas!"
Cpl. John J. Bramble: That's right, sir.
[Sebastiano looks at Bramble, nervously]
Gen. Sebastiano: [cautioning him] You haven't heard anything...
Cpl. John J. Bramble: Of course not, sir. From so far away, how can I hear what they say in Milano?
Gen. Sebastiano: [smiles] Good!
Gen. Sebastiano: Another kick in the face! They let us die, but they don't let us wash! Well, what did we expect? As we say in Milano, "When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas!"
Cpl. John J. Bramble: That's right, sir.
[Sebastiano looks at Bramble, nervously]
Gen. Sebastiano: [cautioning him] You haven't heard anything...
Cpl. John J. Bramble: Of course not, sir. From so far away, how can I hear what they say in Milano?
Gen. Sebastiano: [smiles] Good!