Death on the Nile (1978)

David Niven: Colonel Race

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• Col. Johnny Race : [of Mrs Otterbourne]  What a perfectly dreadful woman. Why doesn't somebody shoot her, I wonder?

  Hercule Poirot : Perhaps one day, the subscribers of the lending libraries will club together and hire an assassin.

• [last lines] 

  Col. Johnny Race : What are you thinking?

  Hercule Poirot : I was thinking of Molière: 'La grande ambition des femmes est d'inspirer l'amour'.

  Col. Johnny Race : [sighs]  I do wish you'd speak some *known* language...

  Hercule Poirot : 'The great ambition of women is to inspire love.'

• Hercule Poirot : Mon Dieu, j'ai faim.

  Col. Johnny Race : [whispers]  Poirot! You have a woman?

  Hercule Poirot : Not femme, faim! I am... peckish.

• Mrs Otterbourne : Will you not join me for a little refreshment? This marvellous little man here has just made me the most extraordinary concoction out of native fruit juices. It's called a "Golden Sepik" and is named after the god of the ancient city of "Crocodilopolis".

  Hercule Poirot : Not for me, thank you very much.

  Col. Johnny Race : Sometimes I do take the hair of the dog, but never the scale of the crocodile.

• Hercule Poirot : Let us change for dinner. J'ai faim.

  Col. Johnny Race : Poirot, you have a woman?

  Hercule Poirot : Femme is woman. J'ai faim. I am peckish.

• Col. Johnny Race : Oh, I haven't clapped eyes on you since, oh, that strange affair of the decapitated clergyman.

• Mrs Otterbourne : Do you tango, Colonel?

  Col. Johnny Race : Poorly, I'm afraid, Miss Otterbourne.

  Mrs Otterbourne : Then I shall teach you to do it correctly, as it was done in old Spain, when it was known as the "cheeker", that is to say, with a sensuous, *erotic* dash.

• Col. Johnny Race : After you gave Miss Jacqueline the morphia, she never stirred all night.

  Miss Bowers : Exactly. Nervous reaction, booze, and morphia - together they'd have sunk the Titanic.

• Hercule Poirot : That's the normal sediment for a great bottle of Château Pétrus. Will you join me in some?

  Col. Johnny Race : No, thanks. You stick to your wine, I'll stick to my whisky.

• Col. Johnny Race : Madam, do I understand that you have evidence to show who killed Mrs Doyle?

  Mrs Otterbourne : You do and I have.

• Col. Johnny Race : I wouldn't go in there, if I were you. Dr Bessner is rather cross.

  Mrs Otterbourne : My good man, I know that, but a little kraut crossness won't stop me now.