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The Bridge on the River Kwai Quotes
Colonel Saito: I hate the British! You are defeated but you have no shame. You are stubborn but you have no pride. You endure but you have no courage. I hate the British!
Colonel Nicholson: I'm adamant. I will not have an officer from my battalion working as a coolie.
Colonel Saito: Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
Colonel Green: You were an accountant in Montreal?
Lieutenant Joyce: Yes, sir. Uh, not really an accountant, sir. That is, I didn't have my charter.
Colonel Green: Exactly what did you do?
Lieutenant Joyce: Well, sir, I just checked columns and columns of figures which three or four people had checked before me, and then there were other people who checked them after I had checked them.
Colonel Green: Sounds a frightful bore.
Lieutenant Joyce: Sir, it was a frightful bore.
Commander Shears: [to Nurse] You give me powders, pills, baths, injections, enemas; when all I need is love.
Colonel Nicholson: We can teach these barbarians a lesson in Western methods and efficiency that will put them to shame. We'll show them what the British soldier is capable of doing.
Colonel Saito: Be happy in your work.
Colonel Green: Good show! Jolly good show, Major!
Major Clipton: Madness! Madness!
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