The Third Man (1949) Quotes with Sound Clips

Revisit the memorable dialogues from the 1949 film noir classic, The Third Man, featuring famous quotes and audio snippets of the best lines.

Actors: Joseph Cotten (Holly Martins), Orson Welles (Harry Lime), Alida Valli (Anna Schmidt), Trevor Howard (Major Calloway)

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1 Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we? They talk about the people and the proletariat. I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

— Harry Lime (Orson Welles)

2 He never grew up. The world grew up around him, that's all. And buried him.

— Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli)

3 If I offered you 20000 pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?

— Harry Lime (Orson Welles)

4 In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.

— Harry Lime (Orson Welles)

5 I'm only a little fool. I'm an amateur at it. You're a professional.

— Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten)

6 In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

— Harry Lime (Orson Welles)

7 Look. I've got a splitting headache, and you stand there and just talk and talk and talk. I... I hate it.

— Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten)

8 In the last war, a general would hang his opponent's picture on the wall. He got to know him that way.

— Major Calloway (Trevor Howard)

9 It's all right, Paine. He's only a scribbler with too much drink in him.

— Major Calloway (Trevor Howard)

10 Look at yourself. They have a name for faces like that.

— Anna Schmidt (Alida Valli)

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