Adenoid Hynkel Quotes in The Great Dictator (1940)

Adenoid Hynkel: Strange, these strike leaders, they're all brunettes. Not a blonde amongst them.

Garbitsch: Brunettes are trouble makers. They're worse than the Jews.

Adenoid Hynkel: Then wipe them out.

Garbitsch: Start small. Not so fast. We get rid of the Jews first, then concentrate on the brunettes.

Adenoid Hynkel: We shall never have peace 'til we have a pure Aryan race. How wonderful. Tomania, a nation of blue-eyed blondes.

Garbitsch: Why not a blonde Europe, a blonde Asia, and blonde America.

Adenoid Hynkel: A blonde world.

Garbitsch: And a brunette dictator.

Adenoid Hynkel: Dictator of the world!

Adenoid Hynkel: Declare war on Napaloni.

Garbitsch: Napaloni?

Adenoid Hynkel: Yes, Napaloni!

[to Field Marshal Herring]

Adenoid Hynkel: Listen, you blockhead. Mobilise every division of the army and the air force. Proceed to Bacteria and attack at once.

Garbitsch: But war will be the end of us.

Adenoid Hynkel: Do as I tell you.

Garbitsch: Madness.

Adenoid Hynkel: Shut up!

Garbitsch: Very well. Would you sign this?

Adenoid Hynkel: Yes, I'll... what is it?

Garbitsch: The declaration of war.

Adenoid Hynkel: Then I'll sign it. A pen! Und stratz mit ze uldensackt. I'll sign it! Und stratz mit sei öldensackt, il der, der flutens... , der... , der... , und strippensackt! A pen! I'll sign it. Napaloni, de grosse peanut, de cheesy ravioli. There!

Adenoid Hynkel: Garbitsch, what's the meaning of this? These appropriations? 25 million for prison camps when we need every penny for the manufacturing of ammunition's?

Garbitsch: We've had to make a few arrests.

Adenoid Hynkel: A few? How many?

Garbitsch: Nothing astronomical. Five or ten thousand.

Adenoid Hynkel: Oh.

Garbitsch: A Day.

Adenoid Hynkel: You see, when I get shaved, I'm very nervous. I like something to look at. So I'm putting in glass walls and ceiling... so that when my head is turned this way, I shall have a view of the mountains. And when it's tipped this way, I shall have a view through the glass ceiling.

Napaloni - Dictator of Bacteria: What's above-a the ceiling?

Adenoid Hynkel: The ballroom.

Adenoid Hynkel: Schultz, why have you forsaken me?

Adenoid Hynkel: [Excusing himself from Madame Napaloni's company on the dance floor upon being summoned by Garbitsch] Madame, your dancing was superb. Excellent. Very good. Good.

Adenoid Hynkel: [in the middle of a speech in which he rants in "German"] Phooey!