Nasir Aboud Quotes in Sirocco (1951)

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?

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!

Nasir Aboud: Hey, what's the matter with you?

Balukjiaan: Nothing is the matter. Why?

Nasir Aboud: You look sick.

[to his assistant]

Nasir Aboud: Doesn't he look sick?

Nasir's assistant: Yeah!

Balukjiaan: I'm never sick!

Nasir Aboud: That's what my poor father said just before he died.

Balukjiaan: [entering the warehouse] Nasir, my little lamb, my sweet friend!

Nasir Aboud: [with sarcasm] We smelled you coming.

Balukjiaan: Uh?

Nasir's assistant: He said you smell like a goat!

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.