Calloway: Next time we'll have a foolproof coffin.
Calloway: It had meningitis. They gave it some of Lime's penicillin. Terrible pity isn't it.
Popescue: That's a nice girl, that. But she ought to go careful in Vienna. Everybody ought to go careful in a city like this.
Anna Schmidt: Poor Harry, I wish he was dead. He'd be safe from all of you then.
Holly Martins: Who was the third man?
Holly Martins: I'd make comic faces... and stand on my head and grin at you between my legs... and tell all sorts of jokes. I wouldn't stand a chance, would I?
Holly Martins: There was a third man there. l suppose that doesn't sound peculiar to you.
Maj. Calloway: l'm not interested in whether a racketeer like Lime was killed by his friends or by an accident. The only important thing is that he's dead.
Holly Martins: Didn't you hear Mr. Crabbin offer me the hospitality of the H.Q.B.M.T. ?
Holly Martins: Did you ever hear of "The Lone Rider of Santa Fe"?
Maj. Calloway: Can't say that l have.
Holly Martins: "Death at Double-X Ranch"? Uh, "Raunch".
Holly Martins: Driver! Driver! Slow down! Have you got orders to kill me?
Maj. Calloway: Miss Schmidt, you were intimate with Lime, weren't you ?
Popescu: l helped Harry fix her papers, Mr. Martins.
Holly Martins: Oh, you did?
Popescu: Not a sort of thing l should confess to a stranger, but you have to break the rules sometimes. Humanity - is a duty. Cigarette, Miss Schmidt?
Popescu: Can l ask, is Mr. Martins engaged on a new book?
Holly Martins: Yes. lt's called, "The Third Man".
Popescu: A novel, Mr. Martins?
Holly Martins: lt's a murder story. l've just started it. lt's based on fact.
Maj. Calloway: He gave you the number of the Casanova Club. That's where a lot of friends of Lime used to go.
Holly Martins: ls it comedy or tragedy?
Anna Schmidt: Comedy. l don't play tragedy.
Holly Martins: l was told that a third man helped you and Kurtz carry the body.
Popescu: l don't know how you got that idea. You'll find all about it in the police report. There was just the two of us, me and the Baron. Who could have told you a story like that ?
Popescu: Why wasn't he at the police inquiry?
Holly Martins: He doesn't want to get involved.
Popescu: You'll never teach these Austrians to be good citizens. lt was his duty to give the evidence.
Anna Schmidt: Oh, please. For heaven's sake, stop making him in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your friend and my lover. He was Harry.
