Alfred "Gloves" Donahue Quotes in All Through the Night (1942)

Franz Ebbing: You realize you will never get out of here. Every entrance is guarded.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Aaah, don't try that line on me, Jack. This is Broadway, not Berlin!

Franz Ebbing: It's a great pity, Mr. Donahue, that you and I should oppose each other. We have so much in common.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Yeah? How's that?

Franz Ebbing: You are a man of action. You take what you want, and so do we. You have no respect for democracy - neither do we. It's clear we should be allies.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: It's clear you are screwy. I've been a refistered Democrat ever since I could vote. I may not be Model Citizen Number One, but I pay my taxes, wait for traffic lights, and buy 24 tickets to the Policeman's Ball. Brother, don't get me mixed up in no league that rubs out innocent bakers and...

[Shoots an alarm buzzer thar Ebbing was about to push]

Franz Ebbing: [Taken aback by the accuracy of the shot] Excellent! Did you learn that in one of your gang wars?

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: No, that's a little trick I picked up in Benny's Shootin' Gallery in Coney Island, and if you don't quit stallin', I'll show you some other tricks I learned in Brooklyn.

[on viewing portrait of Hitler]

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: I recognize the face, but I don't know where to put it.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Any message?

Barney: Should I leave out the curse words?

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Yeah.

Barney: No message.

Sunshine: [Sneaking through villains' hideout] Hmm. What kind of radio is that?

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: That's a short wave outfit.

Sunshine: What goes on here?

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: I don't know. I don't get it. Hold on.

[Moves cigarette lighter, revealing portrait of Adolf Hitler on wall]

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Aha!

Sunshine: Mm-hm! Schickelgruber, the house painter!

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Yeah, I recognize the face but I don't know where to put it. Hey, there's more here than meets the F. B. I.

Barney: Say, chief, can't I get away just long enough to give my girl a quick hello?

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: No, stick around, will ya?

Starchie: What are you so nervous about? She'll keep!

Barney: That's what you think. I can't take a chance. The fleet's in and she's defense-minded!

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Say, there's more here than meets the FBI.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: I start out the evening with a nice poker game in view and wind up in Central Park playing Cowboys and Indians. Now I don't know where I am. How about that! Me, in the middle of New York City, lost in the woods.

[Gloves and Ebbing are in a boat filled with explosives]

Franz Ebbing: You're not afraid to die, are you?

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: I don't mind dying, but I hate to be divided up into small pieces.

Leda Hamilton: [to reporters] Well, I also feel it's about time someone knocked the Axis back on its heels.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Excuse me, Baby. What she means it's about time someone knocked those heels back on their axis.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: [to the waiter] When I order cheesecake, I don't expect to get mucilage!

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Do you remember anything else from your youth?

Sunshine: Yeah, but they gave me three years to forget.

Police Lieutenant Forbes: [Eating a sandwich] I don't grasp it. Maybe I'm not big enough mentally.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: Listen, if you don't stop munchin' that sandwich and throw that feeble brain of yours into high gear, those guys are gonna hi-jack the Statue of Liberty. C'mon, Forbes, I'll show ya da hideout.

Police Lieutenant Forbes: Okay, I'm no prude. I'd like to see this den of boogeymen.

[to other police as he is walking out of the office]

Police Lieutenant Forbes: Now don't let anyone take that sandwich...

[Pointing to his sergeant]

Police Lieutenant Forbes: and that goes for you too!

Leda Hamilton: If you only had kept out of this. You've messed up everything.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: I'm ashamed of myself.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: You're like a bad penny.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: [Breaking into building] Personally, I'd feel more comfortable if I had a rod.

Sunshine: Here lies Sunshine under the sod. That's not odd. He had no rod.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: You know, there are times when I wonder about you.

Alfred "Gloves" Donahue: [attempting to untie the rope he'd been tied up with] These knots must'a been tied by the No. 1 boy scout!