A Lady Without Passport (1950)

George Macready: Palinov

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• Palinov : A shrewd man never asks questions until he has gathered enough information to be able to distinguish between lies and truth.

• Pete Karczag : Are you, too, a Hungarian?

  Palinov : Ah, only when the occasion demands. I'm a Levantine.

• Palinov : I am Palinov - and this is my humble home, my business, my hobby.

  Pete Karczag : I don't think much of it.

• Palinov : Don't underestimate. We all leave tracks to our past.

• Palinov : I try not to get sentimental. I run a business. The fee for my services is one thousand dollars, payable in advance.

  Marianne Lorress : I haven't the money.

  Palinov : As I say, I *try* not to get sentimental.

• Palinov : One would think I had enough to do running the Gulf Stream Café, but, no, I had to be plagued with a soft heart.

  Pete Karczag : It's hardly noticeable.

• Pete Karczag : If not the most famous, at least the most infamous. What a charming scoundrel he was.

  Palinov : Miss Lorress here is his niece.

  Pete Karczag : The rumors around Budapest about him, and the parties. Nowhere have there been such banquets, such orgies of the gourmet. Do you remember the story about the visiting Princess?