Inspector Thompson Quotes in The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Thomson: [looks at the newspaper] Great Scotland Yard! That's extraordinary!

Tintin: What is?

Thomson: Worthington's having a half-price sale on bowler hats!

Inspector Thompson: [snatches the newspaper] Really, Thomson! This is hardly the time...

[looks at the newspaper]

Inspector Thompson: Great Scotland Yard!

Thomson, Tintin: What is it?

Inspector Thompson: Canes are half-price too!

Silk: I'm not a bad person. I'm a kleptomaniac.

Thomson: A what?

Inspector Thompson: It's fear of open spaces.

Thomson: Poor man. No wonder he keeps his wallets in the living room.

[from trailer]

Tintin: Are you going to take charge of this evidence?

Inspector Thompson: Never fear, Tintin! The evidence is safe with us!

[falls down stairs]

Thomson: Thompson? Where are you?

Inspector Thompson: Well, I'm already downstairs! You'd better keep up!

[Thomson and Thompson plan a trap for the wallet thief]

Inspector Thompson: It's childishly simple!

Thomson: To be precise: it's simply childish!

Inspector Thompson: You are under arrest!

Thomson: To be precise: you are under arrest!

[Tintin and his friends have discovered that the "Milanese Nightengale" is none other than Opera singer, Bianca Castafiore by seeing a poster of her in the entrance of the sheik's palace]

Thomson: [amazed] My!

Inspector Thompson: [equally amazed] My!

Captain Haddock: [stoutly, yet awestruck] What a *dish.*

Constable Dexter: Inspector, there's a broken coffee cup down here.

Inspector Thompson: Dexter, they have people to clear these things up. You get on with your own job.

Constable Dexter: Sir, someone's traipsed a load of mud in down here.

Inspector Thompson: Not now, Dexter, please.

[repeated line]

Inspector Thompson: I'm Inspector Thom...

Inspector Thompson: Well, you see, this is why we have rules and regulations, isn't it?