Harry Smith Quotes in Sirocco (1951)

Col. Feroud: What about my money?

Harry Smith: Confiscated.

Col. Feroud: I'm dead without it.

Harry Smith: Let's say you'll be alive in a new way.

Nasir Aboud: [hearing gunfire] It's a French gun.

Harry Smith: What do you care whose gun it is as long as it isn't aimed at you?

Achmet: What an oddity you are, Mr. Smith, - an American in Damascus. No morals! No political convictions!

Harry Smith: I've had a few.

Achmet: I find that difficult to believe.

Harry Smith: I had a bellyful of them. I left them in the states with my first wife!

Achmet: Isn't there anything you believe in?

Harry Smith: You mean right now? Sure!

[looking through the envelope of money he has just been paid off with]

Harry Smith: I believe in this, and it's two thousand short!

Feisal: [skulking into the barber shop] You wish to buy some jewels?

Harry Smith: You got some good ones?

Feisal: Beautiful jewels fit for a dream of a girl, one who is different!

Nasir Aboud: Ah, they're all the same!

Feisal: Oh, no, each new girl is different. With each new love a mist comes before the eyes, the pleasure you will have before the mist rises and you find out that she's like all the others!

The barber: Get your big stomach out of my way!

Balukjiaan: My poor stomach! Every little thing upsets it. Do you have any soda?

Harry Smith: What's the matter with your stomach?

Balukjiaan: It talks to me like my conscience.

Harry Smith: What does it say?

Balukjiaan: It says,"Levon, my lamb, why do you stay in this terrible town? Why don't you go away - far away?"

Harry Smith: [to Violette] I don't know whether I'm too good for you, or you're too good for me.

Harry Smith: [getting her a drink] For you - chartreuse!

Violette: I want to tell you why I came.

Harry Smith: [giving her the drink] Whatever it is, it will look better through the bottom of this glass.

Harry Smith: [after the restaurant bombing] You and your cruddy Syrian patriots.

Nasir Aboud: They were after Colonel Feroud.

Harry Smith: They almost got *me*.

Nasir Aboud: You eat with the French, you get what the French get.

Col. Feroud: I have here your dossier. It contains the history of your life. You're a man entirely without moral scruples of any kind. You supply the Syrians with guns and ammunition, but I respect them, they fight for a cause. Your cause is only money. While Frenchmen and Syrians kill each other, you profit by it. According to military law you have to be shot. The punishment seems hardly adequate.

Harry Smith: What have you got me up here for? To watch me sweat, to watch me crawl? I'll bet they didn't bring Nasir up here before they shot him.

Col. Feroud: What a pity you could only die once.

Harry Smith: Sure, I know I'm going to be shot, but not for running guns, but because I'm something special. I made a monkey out of you. I'm the guy that ran off with your girl.

Col. Feroud: Don't you realize if I *wanted* you shot, you'd be in a ditch right now?

Harry Smith: You look like the kind of fella who might be married.

Major Jean Leon: Yes. Matter of fact, I just celebrated a wedding anniversary.

Harry Smith: Any kids?

Major Jean Leon: Just one. A boy.

Harry Smith: You gonna send him to St. Cyr?

Major Jean Leon: Yes, if he wants to be a soldier.

Harry Smith: That's fine. He'll follow in your footsteps. That's great. It's a great life. Nothing like handing it down to a bunch of kids. They'd break your neck if they knew what was coming.

Harry Smith: I sure thought you were a goner.

Col. Feroud: Buying my freedom was your idea, I suppose.

Harry Smith: Yes, it was.

Col. Feroud: Why did you do it? I should think you'd want to see me out of the way.

Harry Smith: I made a little money on the deal.

Col. Feroud: I see.

Harry Smith: I saved your life and you seem to resent it.

Col. Feroud: I do.

Harry Smith: Maybe you should have had me shot after all.

Col. Feroud: I agree.

Harry Smith: [to Arthur, confessing he's broke] It's a great life. You go around in a big circle and come right back to the beginning.

Harry Smith: [to Violette] I've got a pass. I'm going to Cairo. You still want to go along? Oh, I can't show you as good a time as I could before because I'm broke. The French took all my money, but don't worry. As long as it keeps getting dark, I can always get some.

Col. Feroud: Last night we arrested one Nasir Saleem, a friend of yours. We have his full confession. The evidence against you is incontrovertible. Do you know the penalty?

Harry Smith: Yeah, a slug in the head and a whole in the ground.