Capt. Wiles Quotes in The Trouble with Harry (1955)

Miss Graveley: [Arnie puts a dead rabbit on the table while the Captain and Miss Graveley are having tea] What do you call him?

Arnie: Dead.

Capt. Wiles: Where did you get him?

Arnie: I found him.

Miss Graveley: Where did you find him?

Arnie: [Looking at the tea table] In the blueberry muffins.

Capt. Wiles: [after Dr. Greenbow trips over the body] Couldn't have had more people here if I'd sold tickets.

Jennifer Rogers: I've never been to a home-made funeral before.

Capt. Wiles: I have... it's my third. All in one day...

Sam Marlowe: I think, Captain Wiles, we're tangled up in a murder.

Capt. Wiles: Murder. If it's murder who dunnit?

Sam Marlowe: Who did it?

Capt. Wiles: That's what I say, whodunnit?

Capt. Wiles: I fired three bullets. Three! One for the hunting sign, one for the tin can...

Sam Marlowe: ...and one for the little man who's lying in the grave.

Capt. Wiles: Coming home from Madagascar once we had a fireman on board who hit his head on a brick wall and died two days later.

Sam Marlowe: Where did he find a brick wall on board a ship?

Capt. Wiles: Mmmm... that's what we always wondered.

Capt. Wiles: Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed.

Capt. Wiles: [as he sees Sam Marlowe coming] Next thing you know they'll be televising the whole thing.

Sam Marlowe: Let's get Harry and pop him in.

Capt. Wiles: With hasty reverence.