The Detective (1954)
Peter Finch: Flambeau
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Quotes
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Father Brown : My son...
Flambeau : Please do not call me your son.
Father Brown : My son, you think that you are a man of the world and that I am not. But I assure you, my "innocent" ears encounter every day stories of a horror that would make your sophisticated hair stand on end. Although I wear funny clothes, and have taken certain vows, I live far more in the world than you do.
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Father Brown : A simple but effective ruse, taught me by one of the lambs in my flock.
Flambeau : A strange flock.
Father Brown : Oh, not strange, just human. Albert was a dear fellow. Where do you think he is now?
Flambeau : In prison.
Father Brown : In a monastery. Life is full of surprises, isn't it?
Flambeau : One never dreams how full.
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Flambeau : What are you really after, your cross or my soul?
Father Brown : Both, of course.
Flambeau : Well, come and find us. I'll make you a bargain: whatever you can find you shall have.
Father Brown : I accept your bargain.
Flambeau : It would have been an interesting encounter. Pity it will never take place.
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Father Brown : Appalling.
Flambeau : An odd word to apply to the finest private collection in the world.
Father Brown : What is appalling is that it is private.
Flambeau : You are the first person to have the privilege of seeing it. Look at my El Greco.
Father Brown : Yours?
Flambeau : Mine.
Father Brown : This, I believe, is yours.
[He hands Flambeau his cigarette case]
Flambeau : Oh. So that's how you traced me. Thank you. I wondered where I'd lost it.
Father Brown : You didn't lose it. I stole it.
Flambeau : We have something in common then.
Father Brown : All men do.
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Flambeau : The police have an unfortunate habit of interrupting our conversations just when they begin to be interesting. I must beg your leave to leave you.
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Flambeau : When I was a child I was as stuffed with religion as a Strasborg goose with grain. I have no appetite left.
Father Brown : When you were a child you understood as a child, you thought as a child. But now you have become a man and have not put away childish things.
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Flambeau : The acts we do for no evident reasons are sometimes the most rational.
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Flambeau : I've paid for my collection. Not in the currency of shop keepers but in the currency of fear.