- Sir Gerald Tarrant: I don't know how much you know about Arab etiquette, but the thing that must be avoided above all is familiarity. These chaps are as proud as Lucifer, and a woman among Muslims must be particularly careful.
- Amsterdam guide: [after a boat has blown up] Oh, I'm sorry about the explosion. It doesn't happen every day.
- Modesty Blaise: I don't come every day.
- 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.
- Willie Garvin: Here. We now have been through some scrapes together, have we? Funny how we always survived, isn't it?
- Modesty Blaise: [licking on a large ice cream cone] Survived... each other?
- Willie Garvin: Well, we shared the fights.
- Modesty Blaise: But never shared the nights.
- Willie Garvin: Perhaps we should've.
- Modesty Blaise: We could've.
- Willie Garvin: [he starts singing] At Covent Garden, il Trovatore, we were shot at in the stalls.
- Modesty Blaise: [she starts singing] They all believed it was in the story.
- Willie Garvin: And we took nine curtain calls.
- Modesty Blaise: Perhaps eight would have been enough.
- Willie Garvin: We've shared the thrills.
- Modesty Blaise: We've even shared the kills.
- Willie Garvin: But such a perfect pair, should surely share a bedroom.
- Modesty Blaise: You know, it's cheaper, too.
- Willie Garvin: It ain't. The other Summer, in Arizona, I was sentenced to the chair.
- Modesty Blaise: But they didn't realize I knew the owner of the power station there.
- Willie Garvin, Modesty Blaise: We've bombed and mined, but never intertwined.
- Willie Garvin: We were crazy, you know.
- Modesty Blaise: I was lazy.
- Willie Garvin: I know.
- Willie Garvin, Modesty Blaise: Yes, we should've, and we could've. Perhaps we can...
- McWhirter: Mrs. Fothergill has been restless in your absence, sir. With a full moon, I fear for me life.
- Mrs. Fothergill: [Noticing a tattoo scorpion on Modesty's leg when she grabs it] Ah... Scorpio.
- Modesty Blaise: There's a sting in my tail. Mmm-hmm.
- 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.
- Willie Garvin: I figure it this way, princess: Gabriel's got it figured; so, I figure, all's we got to do is - stay close to Gabriel.
- Modesty Blaise: Leave the figuring to me, Willie. You might hurt yourself.
- Sir Gerald Tarrant: How the devil did you get a passport, Garvin?
- Willie Garvin: Just because I'm working class?
- Sir Gerald Tarrant: Lower class, you mean, surely.
- 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.
- Paul Hagan: Were you deceiving me, all the time in Paris?
- Modesty Blaise: Do you think I can control my heart beats?
- Paul Hagan: Quite probably.
- Sheik Abu Tahir: She is my son.
- Sir Gerald Tarrant: There must have been a technical problem or two.
- Sheik Abu Tahir: Faith, Sir Gerald, can move mountains.
- Nicole: You're so cruel.
- Willie Garvin: Cruel? I haven't touched you yet.
- Nicole: No.
- [Garvin touches her]
- Gabriel: I offer you a flag of truce - and a delicious breakfast.
- Modesty Blaise: If you have a good champagne.
- Gabriel: Excellent!
- Gabriel: Your Brussels job - superb. Two Botticellis, one Grandma Moses.
- Modesty Blaise: One Botticelli and two Grandma Moseses.
- Modesty Blaise: He's the sort of man I could marry.
- Sir Gerald Tarrant: Modesty Blaise - someone's private property? Never.
- [first lines]
- Modesty Blaise: Mmmm. Thank you. Read it to me, please.
- Weng: Scorpio. Not like you to be lazy.
- Modesty Blaise: No.
- Weng: But, today it is an effort to exert yourself. Best to turn your attention to anything new, as this will be a stimulant. Don't take a partner for granted.
- Willie Garvin: Home to bed? Why not?
- Modesty Blaise: Why not?
- Willie Garvin: Why not?
- Modesty Blaise: Why not?
- Willie Garvin: Why not?
- Modesty Blaise: Why not?
