Quotes

Notorious

Paul Prescott: [about Alicia] I don't like this, I don't like her coming here.
Walter Beardsley: She's had me worried for some time. A woman of that sort.
Devlin: What sort is that, Mr. Beardsley?
Walter Beardsley: Oh, I don't think any of us have any illusions about her character. Have we, Devlin?
Devlin: Not at all, not in the slightest. Miss Huberman is first, last, and always not a lady. She may be risking her life, but when it comes to being a lady, she doesn't hold a candle to your wife, sitting in Washington, playing bridge with three other ladies of great honor and virtue.

Devlin: [after being caught kissing Alicia at the party] I knew her before you, loved her before you, only I'm not as lucky as you...

Alicia Huberman: You're sore because you've fallen for a little drunk you tamed in Miami and you don't like it. It makes you sick all over, doesn't it? People will laugh at you, the invincible Devlin, in love with someone who isn't worth even wasting the words on.

Alexander Sebastian: You might smile at her.
Mme. Sebastian: Wouldn't it be a little too much if we both grinned at her like idiots?

Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me you have a wife and two adorable children... and this madness between us can't go on any longer.
Devlin: Bet you've heard that line often enough.
Alicia Huberman: [hurt] Right below the belt every time. That isn't fair, Dev.

Alicia Huberman: Dev, is that you? I'm glad you're late. This chicken took longer than I expected. I hope it isn't done too much. It caught fire once.

Alicia Huberman: [on the plane to Rio after finding out her father has died] When he told me a few years ago what he was, everything went to pot. I didn't care what happened to me. Now I remember how nice he once was, how nice we both were. It's a very curious feeling, a feeling as if something had happened to me, not to him. You see I don't have to hate him anymore - or myself.

Alicia Huberman: Dev, is that you? I am glad you are late. This chicken took longer than I expected... what did they say? Hope it isn't done too - too much. Of course, i-it caught fire once... I think it's better if I cut it up out here, unless you want a half of one for yourself. We're going to have knives and forks, after all, I've decided we're going to eat in style. Marriage must be wonderful with this sort of thing going on everyday.

Alicia Huberman: Well, did you hear that? I'm practically on the wagon, that's quite a change.
Devlin: It's a phase.
Alicia Huberman: You don't think a woman can change?
Devlin: Sure, change is fun, for awhile.

Alicia Huberman: Here's something that belongs to you. I should have given it to you sooner.
Devlin: What is it?
Alicia Huberman: A scarf you lent me once in Miami.

Alicia Huberman: Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other, that's your "patriotism". Well, you can have it.

Devlin: I couldn't see straight or think straight. I was a fat-headed guy, full of pain.

Alicia Huberman: I've told you before, Mr. Devlin doesn't mean a thing to me.
Alexander Sebastian: I'd like to be convinced. Would you maybe care to convince me, Alicia, that Mr. Devlin means nothing to you?

Alicia Huberman: I'm very sorry you all have to go. It has been a perfectly hideous party.

Devlin: I can't help recalling some of your remarks about being a new woman. Daisies and buttercups, wasn't it?
Alicia Huberman: You idiot! What are you sore about, you knew very well what I was doing!
Devlin: Did I?
Alicia Huberman: You could have stopped me with one word, but no, you wouldn't. You threw me at him!
Devlin: I threw you at nobody.
Alicia Huberman: Didn't you tell me what I had?
Devlin: A man doesn't tell a woman what to do; she tells herself. You almost had me believing in that little hokey-pokey miracle of yours, that a woman like you could change her spots.
Alicia Huberman: Oh, you're rotten.
Devlin: That's why I didn't try to stop you. The answer had to come from you.
Alicia Huberman: I see. Some kind of love test.
Devlin: That's right.

Alicia Huberman: Well, you never believed in me anyways. So what's the difference?
Devlin: It's lucky for both of us that I didn't. It wouldn't have been pretty if I'd believed in you. If I'd figured, she'll never be able to go through with it, she's been made over by love.
Alicia Huberman: If you only once had said that you loved me. Oh, Dev.
Devlin: Listen, you've chalked up another boyfriend, that's all. No harm done.
Alicia Huberman: I hate you.
Devlin: There's no occasion to, you're doing good work.

Alicia Huberman: [in bed, hung-over] I'm no stool-pigeon, Mr. Devlin.
Devlin: My department authorized me to engage you to do some work for us. There's a job in Brazil...
Alicia Huberman: Oh, go away. The whole thing bores me.
Devlin: Some of the German gentry who are paying your father are working in Rio. Ever hear of the IG Farben Industries?
Alicia Huberman: I tell you, I'm not interested.
Devlin: Farben has men in South America, planted there before the war. They're cooperating with the Brazilian government to smoke them out. My chief thinks that the daughter of a, uh...
Alicia Huberman: A traitor?
Devlin: Well, he thinks you might be valuable in the work.

Devlin: [referring to Sebastian] Well, he's here. The head of a large German business concern.
Alicia Huberman: His family always had money.
Devlin: He's part of the combine that built up the German war machine and hopes to keep on going.
Alicia Huberman: Something big?
Devlin: It has all the earmarks of being something big.