Sydney Greenstreet movie quotes

“If you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“We Nazis do not relish failure.”
Sydney Greenstreet - Colonel Robinson

“As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man.”
Sydney Greenstreet - Signor Ferrari

“These are facts, sir. Not school book history, not Mr. Wells's history, but history nevertheless. They sent this foot-high jeweled bird to Charles, who was then in Spain. They sent it in a galley commanded by a member of the Order. It never reached Spain.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“In international diplomacy, the shortest distance between two points is never a straight line.”
Sydney Greenstreet - Colonel Robinson

“-Kasper Gutman: Do you have any conception of the extreme, the immeasurable wealth of the Order at that time?
- Sam Spade: I imagine they were pretty well fixed.
- Kasper Gutman: Pretty well is putting it mildly. They were rolling in wealth, sir.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman
Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“How little kindness there is in the world today!”
Sydney Greenstreet - Mr. Peters

“The Knights were profoundly grateful to the Emperor Charles for his generosity toward them. They hit upon the happy thought of sending him for the first year's tribute, not an insignificant live bird, but a glorious golden falcon, encrusted from head to feet with the finest jewels in their coffers.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“A book is a lovely thing, a garden stocked with beautiful flowers, a magic carpet on which to fly away to unknown climes.”
Sydney Greenstreet - Mr. Peters

“Our problem is a simple one. We must create an incident. Any kind of an incident that will convince Turkey Russia is about to attack her. How we accomplish this does not matter.”
Sydney Greenstreet - Colonel Robinson

“- Sam Spade: If you kill me, how are you going get the bird? And if I know you can't afford to kill me, how are you going to scare me into giving it to you?
- Kasper Gutman: There are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening to kill.”

Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade
Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously, unless you keep in practice.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman

“In 1539, these crusading knights persuaded the Emperor Charles V to give them the island of Malta. He made them but one condition: they were to pay him, each year, the tribute of one falcon, in acknowledgment that Malta was still under Spain.”

Sydney Greenstreet - Kasper Gutman