Franz Ebbing 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.

[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.