Campion Quotes
Albert Campion: Muggy Mathews - one of the best cat burglars in the business. He can climb up the sheer face of running water.
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Albert Campion: We may be going to a house where they have *real* servants. You'll have to behave.
Magersfontein Lugg: I can handle servants.
Albert Campion: Up to and including grievous bodily harm.
Magersfontein Lugg: I've got discretion, me - in *both* fists!
Magersfontein Lugg: I can handle servants.
Albert Campion: Up to and including grievous bodily harm.
Magersfontein Lugg: I've got discretion, me - in *both* fists!
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Chief Inspector Stanislaus Oates: What exactly are you up to? Or is it a state secret again?
Albert Campion: I'm taking the short road as opposed to the long road.
Chief Inspector Stanislaus Oates: Thank you very much, that's much clearer.
Albert Campion: Or to express it in another way, it is the one occasion in a hundred when publicity would be catastrophic, official police involvement undesirable and it falls to the gifted private individual to take responsibility.
Chief Inspector Stanislaus Oates: And you are taking responsibility for what?
Albert Campion: The safety of a great national treasure, coupled with a spot of drastic eradication.
Albert Campion: I'm taking the short road as opposed to the long road.
Chief Inspector Stanislaus Oates: Thank you very much, that's much clearer.
Albert Campion: Or to express it in another way, it is the one occasion in a hundred when publicity would be catastrophic, official police involvement undesirable and it falls to the gifted private individual to take responsibility.
Chief Inspector Stanislaus Oates: And you are taking responsibility for what?
Albert Campion: The safety of a great national treasure, coupled with a spot of drastic eradication.
Movie: Campion