The Saint in Palm Springs (1940)

George Sanders: Simon Templar, The Saint

Quotes 

• Simon Templar : [about headaches]  I have an excellent cure.

  Clarence 'Pearly' Gates : Yeah? What's that?

  Simon Templar : Stay sober the night before the morning after.

• Simon Templar : Are you sure you robbed everybody?

  Clarence 'Pearly' Gates : All the new guests - all except Mr. and Mrs. John Harper.

  Simon Templar : Who are they? How did you skip them?

  Clarence 'Pearly' Gates : They checked out an hour before they got here. He got a telegram he was gonna be a grandfather or somethin'.

  Simon Templar : Are you positive?

  Clarence 'Pearly' Gates : You see, I figured that anybody who checked out might be the guilty party, so I checked up on who checked out. They was the only ones.

  Simon Templar : You think of everything - when you think.

• Charlie - Desk Clerk : Oh, how do you do, Mr. Templar? We've been expecting you. So, you're the man they call "The Saint"... the modern Robin Hood!

  Simon Templar : Really, I'm a remarkably bad shot with a bow and arrow, and I've never tasted venison in my life.

• Mr. Evans : How did you get here?

  Simon Templar : You'd better ask my horse.

• Simon Templar : [to the arrested murderer]  Where would you prefer to be executed? Sing Sing or San Quentin?