Other Titles • Rope (1948) • Alfred Hitchcock's Rope • Cocktail für eine Leiche (1963)
Quotes from Rope (1948)
1
Brandon: We killed for the sake of danger and for the sake of killing.
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2
Mrs. Atwater: Do you know when I was a girl I used to read quite a bit. Brandon: We all do strange things in our childhood.
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3
Brandon: Rupert is extremely radical. Do you know that he selects his books on the assumption that people not only can read but actually can think?
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4
Brandon: The good Americans usually die young on the battlefield, don't they? Well, the Davids of the world merely occupy space, which is why he was the perfect victim for the perfect crime.
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5
Rupert Cadell: Brandon has told me a lot about you. Janet Walker: Did he do me justice? Rupert Cadell: Do you deserve justice?
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6
Brandon: Nobody commits murder just for the experience of committing it. Nobody except us.
7
Rupert Cadell: Did you think you were God, Brandon?
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Brandon Shaw: Of course, he was a Harvard graduate. That might be grounds for justifiable homicide.
9
Phillip Morgan: I never strangled a chicken in my life!
10
Brandon Shaw: Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.
11
Rupert Cadell: By what right do you dare to say that there's a superior few to which you belong?
12
Kenneth: We're drinking champaigne? Is it somebody's birthday? Brandon: You might say it's quite the opposite.
13
Brandon Shaw: I've always thought that it was out of character for David to drink anything as corrupt as Whiskey. Phillip Morgan: Out of character for him to be murdered, too.
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Rupert Cadell: You're quite a good chicken strangler as I recall!
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Brandon Shaw: Determined to get drunk, aren't you? Phillip Morgan: I am drunk. Brandon Shaw: And just as childish now as you were earlier when you called me a liar. Phillip Morgan: You had no business telling that story. Brandon Shaw: Why did you lie anyway? Phillip Morgan: I had to! Have you ever bothered for one minute to consider how another person might feel. Have you considered the feelings for others? Brandon Shaw: I'm not sentimental if that's what... Phillip Morgan: No, of course not. It doesn't matter what another person thinks. It's only about you. Mr. Brandon liked the party. Mr. Brandon gave the party. Mr. Brandon had an enchanted evening. Well, I had a rotten evening! Brandon Shaw: Keep drinking, and you'll have a worse morning. Phillip Morgan: At least if I have a hangover, it will be all mine!
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Brandon: The power to kill could be just as satisfying as the power to create.
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