Modesty Blaise Quotes in Modesty Blaise (1966)

Amsterdam guide: [after a boat has blown up] Oh, I'm sorry about the explosion. It doesn't happen every day.

Modesty Blaise: I don't come every day.

Gabriel: Suffragette!

Modesty Blaise: Psychopath!

Modesty Blaise: [Speaking of Gabriel's criminal career] The Royal Box at Ascot... picking pockets.

Gabriel: One has to start somewhere, you know.

Modesty Blaise: Your first mistake.

Gabriel: [Pointing his finger reprovingly] My last!

Gabriel: You know, you really are very beautiful.

Modesty Blaise: I haven't been dead for 42 years.

Gabriel: Very good for one's image.

Modesty Blaise: Mmmm.

Mrs. Fothergill: [Noticing a tattoo scorpion on Modesty's leg when she grabs it] Ah... Scorpio.

Modesty Blaise: There's a sting in my tail. Mmm-hmm.

Gabriel: I am the villain of the piece. I have to condemn you.

Modesty Blaise: But I am the heroine. Don't I get away?

Gabriel: Perhaps.

Modesty Blaise: Where are you taking me?

Gabriel: You are on board the Andronicus bound from Bizerte to Dubroynik with a cargo of fruits and nuts.

Willie Garvin: He's a fruit merchant, see?

Modesty Blaise: He is a nut.

Gabriel: That's enough of that.

Modesty Blaise: We always have choices about what we make of ourselves, but we don't always know where those choices will lead.