Harry Street Quotes in The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

Countess Liz: Oh, I just devoured your last book!

Harry Street: [sarcastically] Well, I hope it didn't give you a bellyache!

Harry Street: Darling, there's a war going on there.

Cynthia Green: There's a war goung on here too right at this table! There's a dandy little war going on!

Helen: Hello, Molo, you white man's burden, you!

Molo, African Servant: [talks in an African language]

Helen: Darling, we only got the first aid book.

Harry Street: [looking at the witch doctor] What's he going to do, sprinkle me with monkey dust?

Helen: Darling!

Harry Street: A hair from the tail of a leopard?

Harry Street: [narrating] And there was never another time like that first time in Africa.

Harry Street: [narrating] I suppose it was the elusiveness of Liz which was her main attraction. She was something to hunt down and trap and capture. The Countess Elizabeth - Frigid Liz - the semi-iceerg from the semi-tropics!

Harry Street: [scoffs] Doctors? It was a wise man who said that if all the medicines were dumped into the sea, it would be a horrible day for the fishes?

[chuckles]

Harry Street: I wonder if there'll be another time as good as this.

Harry Street: [talking about their African trip] There's a wonderful book in it. Maybe I'll write it some day.

Cynthia Green: Darling!

Harry Street: Don't spoil it! Don't talk it all away!

Harry Street: Oh, the royalties are rolling in. That's one thing about success - even when it's a failure. It snowballs for a while. There's also one thing about a snowball - it has nowhere to go but downhill.

Harry Street: I had it all... and what did I have? My name in the papers, my face in the better magazines... and where was Cynthia?