Col. Feroud: Last night we arrested one Nasir Saleem, a friend of yours. We have his full confession. The evidence against you is incontrovertible. Do you know the penalty?
Harry Smith: Yeah, a slug in the head and a whole in the ground.


--Humphrey Bogart (as ) in Sirocco

Col. Feroud: What about my money?
Harry Smith: Confiscated.
Col. Feroud: I'm dead without it.
Harry Smith: Let's say you'll be alive in a new way.


--Humphrey Bogart (as ) in Sirocco

Rose Sayer: Who do you think you are ordering me about?
Charlie Allnut: I'm the captain, that's what!


--Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen

Norris: Are you attempting to tell me my duties, sir?
Philip Marlowe: No, just having fun trying to guess what they are.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Philip Marlowe) in The Big Sleep

Baker: I got the license number. I always had a good head for figures.
Vincent Parry: My only interest in your head is how easy it'll crack open.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Vincent Parry) in Dark Passage

Dr. Mark Hamilton: You see sometimes a thought can be like a malignant disease that starts to eat away the willpower. When that happens, it's my business to remove the thought before it can cause destruction.
Richard Mason: That's a very pretty thought, Doctor, but I don't quite see how you can take a thought out of a man's head. It seems to me if it's there, it's there and there's nothing can be done about it.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Richard Mason) in Conflict

Maj. Duval: Haven't you been taught to stand in the presence of officials?
Jean Matrac: [Flatly] No.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Jean Matrac) in Passage to Marseille

David Larrabee: I've been trying to write her a poem, but I can't seem to finish it. What rhymes with "glass"?
Linus Larrabee: Glass... Glass...
[snaps fingers]
Linus Larrabee: "Alas."


--Humphrey Bogart (as Linus Larrabee) in Sabrina

David Larrabee: It's all beginning to make sense. Mr.Tyson owns the sugarcane. You own the formula for the plastics. And I'm supposed to be offered up as a human sacrifice on the altar of the industrial progress. Is that it?
Linus Larrabee: You make it sound so vulgar, David, as if the son of hot dog dynasty were being offered in marriage to the daughter of the mustard king. Surely, surely you don't object to Elizabeth Tyson just because her father happens to have twenty million dollars? That's very narrow minded of you, David.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Linus Larrabee) in Sabrina

Alberta Marlow: [after they kiss] What's the matter?
Rick Leland: Look, I didn't mean that.
Alberta Marlow: I did. Why didn't you?
Rick Leland: Well, a fellow with a suit like mine, shouldn't go around kissing girls.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Leland) in Across the Pacific