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Terence Stamp and Monica Vitti in Modesty Blaise (1966)

Dirk Bogarde: Gabriel

Modesty Blaise

Dirk Bogarde credited as playing...

Gabriel

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Quotes14

  • Gabriel: [Staked out in the hot sun and very thirsty] Champagne... champagne... champagne.
  • Gabriel: I am the villain of the piece and I have to condemn you.
  • Modesty Blaise: But I am the heroine. Don't I get away?
  • Gabriel: Perhaps.
  • Gabriel: Suffragette!
  • Modesty Blaise: Psychopath!
  • McWhirter: [after watching Mrs. Fothergill strangle a mime with her knees] Have you ever wondered about Mr. Fothergill?
  • Gabriel: I am Mr. Fothergill.
  • Modesty Blaise: Where are you taking me?
  • Gabriel: You are on board the Andronicus bound from Bizerte to Dubrovnik with a cargo of fruits and nuts.
  • Willie Garvin: He's a fruit merchant, see?
  • Modesty Blaise: He's a nut.
  • Gabriel: That's enough of that.
  • Gabriel: [to Pacco] If the girl is alive tomorrow night, you won't be.
  • Modesty Blaise: [Speaking of Gabriel's criminal career] The Royal Box at Ascot... picking pockets.
  • Gabriel: One has to start somewhere, you know.
  • Modesty Blaise: Your first mistake.
  • Gabriel: [Pointing his finger reprovingly] My last!
  • Gabriel: You know, you really are very beautiful.
  • Modesty Blaise: I haven't been dead for two years.
  • Gabriel: Very good for one's image.
  • Modesty Blaise: Mmmm.
  • Gabriel: Modesty Blaise.
  • McWhirter: Is she with us?
  • Gabriel: No, alas. Against us, once again.
  • Gabriel: I offer you a flag of truce - and a delicious breakfast.
  • Modesty Blaise: If you have a good champagne.
  • Gabriel: Excellent!
  • Gabriel: You must learn to sip your pleasures, Mrs. Fothergill. Don't gulp them all down at one go!
  • Gabriel: Your Brussels job - superb. Two Botticellis, one Grandma Moses.
  • Modesty Blaise: One Botticelli and two Grandma Moseses.
  • Gabriel: I have given them the tools. They must finish the job.
  • Gabriel: You know, we should be partners, you know.
  • Modesty Blaise: Oh, if I gave the orders.

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