Rick: I stick my neck out for nobody!


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca

Rick: If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?
Sam: What? My watch stopped.
Rick: I'd bet they're asleep in New York. I'd bet they're asleep all over America.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca

Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.
Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca

Rick: Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca

Rick: Who are you really, and what were you before? What did you do and what did you think, huh?
Ilsa: We said no questions.
Rick: ...Here's looking at you, kid.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca

Rick: You'll excuse me, gentlemen. Your business is politics, mine is running a saloon.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca

Rick: Well, I guess neither one of our stories is very funny. Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Laszlo, or were there others in between? Or - aren't you the kind that tells?


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca

Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca

Major Strasser: Are you one of those people who cannot imagine the Germans in their beloved Paris?
Rick: It's not particularly my beloved Paris.
Heinz: Can you imagine us in London?
Rick: When you get there, ask me!
Captain Renault: Hmmh! Diplomatist!
Major Strasser: How about New York?
Rick: Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca

Major Strasser: We have a complete dossier on you: Richard Blaine, American, age 37. Cannot return to his country. The reason is a little vague. We also know what you did in Paris, Mr. Blaine, and also we know why you left Paris.
[hands the dossier to Rick]
Major Strasser: Don't worry, we are not going to broadcast it.
Rick: [reading] Are my eyes really brown?


--Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca