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William L. Shirer

William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist and war correspondent. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany cited in scholarly works since publication. Originally a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what would become a CBS radio team of journalists known as "Murrow's Boys". He became known for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II (1940).

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960)
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 * In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on an uninhabited planet. (Preface)

 * I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state.

 * It was surprising and sometimes consternating to find that notwithstanding the opportunities I had to learn the facts and despite one’s inherent distrust of what one learned from Nazi sources, a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one’s mind and often misled it. No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime’s calculated and incessant propaganda. Often in a German home or office or sometimes in a casual conversation with a stranger in a restaurant, a beer hall, a café, I would meet with the most outlandish assertions from seemingly educated and intelligent persons.
 * Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-à-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union.

 * On September 12, 1938 Hitler gave one of his typical, fanatical speeches at Nuremberg. It was regarding the Czech president's refusal to cede the Sudetenland to Germany. Shirer reports:

 * Though brutal and bombastic, and dripping with venom against the Czech state and especially against the Czech President, the Fuehrer's speech, made to a delirious mass of Nazi fanatics gathered in the huge stadium on the last night of the party rally, was not a declaration of war. He reserved his decision -- publicly at least, for, as we know from the captured German documents, he had already set October 1 for the attack across the Czech frontier. He simply demanded that the Czech government give "justice" to the Sudeten Germans. If it didn't, Germany would have to see to it that it did.

 * At eleven o'clock that same night Neville Chamberlain got off an urgent message to Hitler: "In view of the increasingly critical situation I propose to come over at once to see you with a view to trying to find a peaceful solution. I propose to come across by air and am ready to start tomorrow. "Please indicate earliest time at which you can see me and suggest place of meeting. I should be grateful for a very early reply."

 * The surrender that was to culminate in Munich had begun.

 * "I have fallen from Heaven!" ("Ich bin vom Himmel gefallen!") Hitler exclaimed when he read Chamberlain's message. He was astounded but highly pleased that the man who presided over the destinies of the mighty British empire should come pleading to him, and flattered that a man who was sixty-nine years old and had never travelled in an airplane before should make the long seven hours' flight to Berchtesgaden at the farthest extremity of Germany. Hitler had not had even the grace to suggest a meeting place on the Rhine, which would have shortened the trip by half.

 * [William Shirer writes in his works Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich that on the morning on September 22, 1938, prior to Hitler's meeting with Neville Chamberlain over the future of Czechoslovakia] Hitler was in highly nervous state. On the morning of the twenty-second I was having breakfast on the terrace of the Hotel Dressen, where the talks were to take place, when Hitler strode past on his way down to the riverbank to inspect his yacht. He seemed to have a peculiar tic. Every few steps he cocked his right shoulder nervously, his left leg snapping up as he did so. He had ugly, black patches under his eyes. He seemed to be, as I noted in my diary that evening, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. "Teppichfresser!" muttered my German companion, an editor who secretly despised the Nazis. And he explained that Hitler had been in such a maniacal mood over the Czechs the last few days that on more than one occasion he had lost control of himself completely, hurling himself to the floor and chewing the edge of the carpet. Hence the term "carpet eater." The evening before, while talking with some of the party leaders at the Dreesen, I had heard the expression applied to the Fuehrer -- in whispers, of course.

 * [According to Shirer, on August 22, 1939 the day after the Nazi-Soviet Pact was formed between Hitler and Stalin, Hitler had this to say at his military conference in anticipation of the invasion of Poland:] Four days ago I took a special step which brought it about that Russia announced that yesterday that she is ready to sign. The personal contact with Stalin is established. Now Poland is in the position which I wanted her...A beginning has been made for the destruction of England's hegemony. The way is open for the soldier, now that I have made political preparations.

 * The way would be open for the soldiers, that is, if Chamberlain didn't pull another Munich. "I am only afraid that some Schweinehund (dirty dog) will make a proposal for mediation."

 * Adolf Hitler was the third son and the fourth of six children of Alois Hitler (born Schicklgruber) (1837–1903), a minor customs official, and Klara Pölzl (1860-1907), his second cousin, and third wife. Alois was born illegitimate and for the first thirty-nine years of his life bore his mother's name, Schicklgruber. The name Hitler appears in the maternal and paternal line. Both Hitler's grandmother on his mother's side and his grandfather on his father's side were named Hitler, or rather variants of it, for the family name was variously written as Hiedler, Huetler, Huettler and Hitler. Because Adolf's mother was his father's second cousin, an episcopal dispensation had to be obtained for the marriage.

 * Hitler's native district in the Waldviertel, is a hilly, wooded country of peasant villages and small farms, and though only some fifty miles from Vienna it has a somewhat remote and impoverished air, as if the main currents of Austrian life had passed it by. The inhabitants tend to be dour, like the Czech peasants to the north of them. Intermarriage is common, as in the case of Hitler's parents, and illegitimacy is frequent."
 * pp. 6, 7

 * In the summer of 1928, Hitler aged 39, was the Nazi party leader, and he fell in love with Geli Raubal, his 20 year old niece, the daughter of his widowed half-sister, Angela Raubal. He took her everywhere, to meetings and conferences, on long walks in the mountains and to the cafés and theaters in Munich. Gossip about the party leader and his beautiful blond niece was inevitable in Munich and throughout Nazi circles in southern Germany. By 1931, some deep rift whose origins and nature have never been fully ascertained grew between them.

 * Whatever it was that darkened the love between the uncle and his niece, their quarrels became more violent and at the end of the summer of 1931 Geli announced that she was returning to Vienna to resume her voice studies. Hitler forbade her to go. The next morning Geli Raubal was found shot dead in her room. The coroner reported that a bullet had gone through her chest below the left shoulder and penetrated the heart; it seemed beyond doubt that the shot was self-inflicted. Yet for years afterward in Munich there was murky gossip that Geli Raubal had been murdered — by Hitler in a rage, by Himmler to eliminate a situation that had become embarrassing to the party. But no credible evidence ever turned up to substantiate such rumors."
 * pp. 131, 132

 * On March 19, 1945 Hitler issued a general order that all military, industrial, transportation and communication installations as well as all stores in Germany must be destroyed in order to prevent them from falling intact into the hands of the enemy. The measures were to be carried out by the military with the help of the Nazi gauleiters and "commissars for defense." "All directives opposing this," the order concluded, "are invalid."

 * Germany was to be made one vast wasteland. Nothing was to be left with which the German people might somehow survive their defeat.

 * Hitler told Albert Speer, the Minister for Armament and War Production:

 * If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis for which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy these things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation [Russia]. Besides, those who will remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed.

 * This "scorched earth" directive was followed the next day, on March 23 by an equally monstrous order by Martin Bormann, the Fuehrer's secretary. Speer described it on the stand at Nuremberg: "The Bormann decree aimed at bringing the population to the center of the Reich from both East and West, and the foreign workers and prisoners of war were to be included. These millions of people were to be sent upon their trek on foot. No provisions for their existence had been made, nor could it be carried out in view of the situation. It would have resulted in an unimaginable hunger catastrophe.

 * And had all the other orders of Hitler and Bormann — there were a number of supplementary directives -- been carried out, millions of Germans who had escaped with their lives up to then might well have died. Speer tried to summarize for the Nuremberg court the various "scorched earth" orders. To be destroyed he said were: "All industrial plants, all important electrical facilities, water works, gas works, food stores and clothing stores; all bridges, all railway and communication installations, all waterways, all ships, all freight cars and all locomotives."

 * That the German people were spared this final catastrophe was due to — aside from the rapid advances of the Allied troops, which made the carrying out of such a gigantic demolition impossible — the superhuman efforts of Speer and a number of Army officers who, in direct disobedience (finally!) of Hitler's orders, raced about the country to make sure that vital communications, plants and stores were not blown up by zealously obedient Army officers and party hacks.
 * pp. 1103, 1104

The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969)

 * The Treaty of Guarantee came out of a proposal by Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, at the allied conference of Paris as a compromise to Marshal Ferdinand Foch's insistence that the Franco-German border be pushed back to the Rhine. Foch felt that this new border would prevent another German invasion into France. The Germans had invaded France from across the Rhine five times within a century in 1814, 1815, 1870, 1914, and 1918. Its terms called for solemn guarantees by Britain and America of the French frontier against future German aggression.

 * Along with Foch, the French Premier, Georges Clemenceau had demanded that Germany's Western border be fixed at the Rhine. Clemenceau relented when the Treaty of Guarantee was proposed. However Foch insisted that the French occupation of the Rhineland was crucial to halting future German aggression.

 * What the French wanted above all else from the peace settlement was a guarantee of their security, and for reasons difficult now to comprehend their chief allies, Great Britain and the United States, never quite understood this — perhaps because Woodrow Wilson, the American President, and Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, lacked a sure grasp of European history. The French could not ignore that history. They could not forget that since the days of the Huns invaders had broken into their fair country some thirty times from across the Rhine.

 * What Wilson and Lloyd George failed to see was that the terms of peace which they were hammering out against the dogged resistance of Clemenceau and Foch, while seemingly severe enough, left Germany in the long run relatively stronger than before. Except for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France in the west and the loss of some valuable industrialized frontier districts to the Poles, form whom the Germans had taken them originally, Germany remained virtually intact, greater in population and industrial capacity than France could ever be, and moreover with her cities, farms, and factories undamaged by the war, which had been fought in enemy lands. In terms of relative power in Europe, Germany's position was actually better in 1919 than in 1914, or would be as soon as the Allied victors carried out their promise to reduce their armaments to the level of the defeated. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had not been the catastrophe for Germany that Bismarck had feared, because there was no Russian empire to take advantage of it. Russia, beset by revolution and civil war, was for the present, and perhaps would be for years to come, impotent. In the place of this powerful country on her eastern border Germany now had small, unstable states which could not seriously threaten her and which one day might easily be made to return former German territory and even made to disappear from the map.

 * By 1922, General Hans von Seeckt, commander of the German armed forces, was secretly advising his government: "Poland's existence is intolerable, incompatible with the essential conditions of Germany's life. Poland must go and will go". He added that Poland's obliteration "must be one of the fundamental objectives of German policy...With the disappearance of Poland will fall one of the strongest pillars of the Versailles Peace, the hegemony of France."

 * There was much idle talk at the Conference of Paris about the disappearance of four mighty empires, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Turkish. But the cynical Clemenceau, at the head of the French delegation knew that the strongest of them remained — even though it had reluctantly become a Republic. His task at the peace parleys, as he saw it, was to see that Germany was permanently weakened, or, if this could not be achieved, confronted for at least a generation with an Allied coalition which, having won the war, would keep the peace by guarding France's northeastern border to make sure that any future invasion from across the Rhine would be met with overwhelming force.

 * Prodded by the implacable Foch, Clemenceau at first demanded that Germany's western border be fixed at the Rhine, with the French army standing guard on the left bank and the German population on that side formed into an autonomous state dominated by France. Lloyd George and Wilson would have none of it. "You're trying to create another Alsace-Lorraine," Wilson charged."

 * Lloyd George suggested a compromise. If France relinquished her claims on the Rhine, Britain and the United States would guarantee France's boundary against future German aggression. Wilson agreed and treaties to that effect were drawn up. Marshall Foch, pressed by the uncompromising Poincaré, (former French Premier), made one last desperate effort to save for France the only natural barrier there was against the hereditary enemy. On March 31, he demanded to be heard in person by the Big Four, Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and the Italian premier, Orlando, who were responsible for drawing up the peace terms.

 * "If we do not hold the Rhine permanently [Foch told them] there is no neutralization, no disarmament, no written clause of any nature, which can prevent Germany from breaking out across it and gaining the upper hand. No aid could arrive in time from England or America to save France from complete defeat."

 * It was a prophetic pronouncement. But Clemenceau gave in. In return for abandoning the Rhine he accepted solemn guarantees of his country's frontier from his two great allies. Neither ally kept its word. Both houses of the British parliament approved the Treaty of Guarantee in July 1919, but on the condition that the United States also ratify it. The U.S. Senate refused to approve either it or the Versailles Treaty, and the British assent was nullified.

 * The French regarded this as a betrayal. It was. They spoke of being cheated by their wartime allies. They were. Clemenceau whose outspoken sympathies for Britain and America (he had been a newspaper correspondent in the United States shortly after the Civil War, had learned American English and married an American) had earned charges from the Right before the war that he was an Anglo-Saxon "tool", was embittered and disillusioned. As the Premier who had pulled France together in the closing period of the war, he realized what so many Frenchmen tended to forget, that without British and American help the war could not in the end have been won. He saw too that without Anglo-American promises of military aid in the future it would be beyond France's power to repel the next German invasion. He had been promised that aid in return for giving up the security of the Rhine, which his generals had demanded. Now France had neither.

 * The deceit of the Allies would have fateful consequences. Germany, even under Hitler, would never have risked invading France again if her rulers and her generals had known in advance that Britain and America would oppose it by military force. The U.S. Senate's rejection of the Treaty of Guarantee brought a certain responsibility on the United States for the subsequent course of events which pushed western Europe to the brink of destruction by Germany, though this was scarcely recognized in America. The Senate's action did not spare the American republic in the end. It only made the reconquest of western Europe from the Germans, when the Second World War came, infinitely more costly in American lives and treasure than it would have been had a President's word been honored in the first place by the Senate. The United States, supremely complacent in its shortsighted isolation, was lost as a factor in guarding the peace of Europe it had helped to win, and in which its fate would always be intertwined."

 * Shortly after the British government had protested Hitler's violation of the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty on March 16 and then joined Italy and France in proclaiming their determination to uphold the sanctity of treaties, it had, behind the backs of its two Stresa allies, negotiated a naval agreement which violated the naval clauses of the Versailles Treaty and gave Hitler the right and encouragement to build all the warships his shipyards could construct for at least ten years.* The Naval Pact was signed in London on June 18, 1935, without the British government having the courtesy to consult with France and Italy, or later, to inform them of the secret agreements which stipulated that the Germans could build in certain categories more powerful warships than any the three Western nations then possessed. The French regarded this as treachery, which it was. They saw it as a further appeasement of Hitler, whose appetite grew on concessions. And they resented the British agreeing, for what they thought a private gain, to scrap further the peace treaty and thus add to the growing overall military power of Nazi Germany.

 * Germany agreed to restrict her Navy to one third the size of the British but was accorded the right to build submarines, explicitly denied her by the peace treaty, up to 60 percent of British strength, and to 100 percent in case she decided it was necessary to her security, which she shortly did. Germany also pledged that her U-boats would never attack unarmed merchant ships, a word that she went back on from the very beginning of the second war. As soon as the deal with Britain was concluded Germany laid down two battleships, the Bismarck and Tirpitz, with a displacement of over 45,000 tons. By the terms of the Washington and London naval accords, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States had to limit their battleships to 35,000 tons. Great Britain, as the French contended, had no legal right to absolve Germany from respecting the naval clauses of the Versailles Treaty. And, as many Frenchmen added, no moral right either.
 * Book Three, Chapter 15, Aftermath: Widening of the Gulf: 1934-1936, discussing the Anglo-German Naval Agreement.

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The Collapse of the Third Republic

The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969) by William L. Shirer examines the collapse of the French Third Republic in 1940 at the outset of Hitler's Western invasion during World War II.

 * The Treaty of Guarantee came out of a proposal by Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, at the allied conference of Paris as a compromise to Marshal Ferdinand Foch's insistence that the Franco-German border be pushed back to the Rhine. Foch felt that this new border would prevent another German invasion into France. The Germans had invaded France from across the Rhine five times within a century in 1814, 1815, 1870, 1914, and 1918.

 * Along with Foch, the French Premier, Georges Clemenceau had demanded that Germany's Western border be fixed at the Rhine. Clemenceau relented when the Treaty of Guarantee was proposed. However Foch insisted that the French occupation of the Rhineland was crucial to halting future German aggression.

 * What the French wanted above all else from the peace settlement was a guarantee of their security, and for reasons difficult now to comprehend their chief allies, Great Britain and the United States, never quite understood this -- perhaps because Woodrow Wilson, the American President, and Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, lacked a sure grasp of European history. The French could not ignore that history. They could not forget that since the days of the Huns invaders had broken into their fair country some thirty times from across the Rhine.

 * What Wilson and Lloyd George failed to see was that the terms of peace which they were hammering out against the dogged resistance of Clemenceau and Foch, while seemingly severe enough, left Germany in the long run relatively stronger than before.

 * In terms of relative power in Europe, Germany's position was actually better in 1919 than in 1914, or would be as soon as the Allied victors carried out their promise to reduce their armaments to the level of the defeated.

 * By 1922, General Hans von Seeckt, commander of the German armed forces, was secretly advising his government: "Poland's existence is intolerable, incompatible with the essential conditions of Germany's life. Poland must go and will go". He added that Poland's obliteration "must be one of the fundamental objectives of German policy...With the disappearance of Poland will fall one of the strongest pillars of the Versailles Peace, the hegemony of France."

 * There was much idle talk at the Conference of Paris about the disappearance of four mighty empires, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Turkish. But the cynical Clemenceau, at the head of the French delegation knew that the strongest of them remained -- even though it had reluctantly become a Republic.

 * Prodded by the implacable Foch, Clemenceau at first demanded that Germany's western border be fixed at the Rhine, with the French army standing guard on the left bank and the German population on that side formed into an autonomous state dominated by France. Lloyd George and Wilson would have none of it. "You're trying to create another Alsace-Lorraine," Wilson charged.

 * Lloyd George suggested a compromise. If France relinquished her claims on the Rhine, Britain and the United States would guarantee France's boundary against future German aggression. Wilson agreed and treaties to that effect were drawn up. Marshall Foch, pressed by the uncompromising Poincaré, (former French Premier), made one last desperate effort to save for France the only natural barrier there was against the hereditary enemy.

 * "If we do not hold the Rhine permanently [Foch told them] there is no neutralization, no disarmament, no written clause of any nature, which can prevent Germany from breaking out across it and gaining the upper hand. No aid could arrive in time from England or America to save France from complete defeat."

 * The Naval Pact was signed in London on June 18, 1935, without the British government having the courtesy to consult with France and Italy, or later, to inform them of the secret agreements which stipulated that the Germans could build in certain categories more powerful warships than any the three Western nations then possessed. The French regarded this as a betrayal. It was. They spoke of being cheated by their wartime allies. They were.

 * As the Premier who had pulled France together in the closing period of the war, [Clemenceau] realized what so many Frenchmen tended to forget, that without British and American help the war could not in the end have been won. He saw too that without Anglo-American promises of military aid in the future it would be beyond France's power to repel the next German invasion. He had been promised that aid in return for giving up the security of the Rhine, which his generals had demanded. Now France had neither.

 * The deceit of the Allies would have fateful consequences. Germany, even under Hitler, would never have risked invading France again if her rulers and her generals had known in advance that Britain and America would oppose it by military force. The U.S. Senate's rejection of the Treaty of Guarantee brought a certain responsibility on the United States for the subsequent course of events which pushed western Europe to the brink of destruction by Germany.

 * The Senate's action did not spare the American republic in the end. It only made the reconquest of western Europe from the Germans, when the Second World War came, infinitely more costly in American lives and treasure than it would have been had a President's word been honored in the first place by the Senate. The United States, supremely complacent in its shortsighted isolation, was lost as a factor in guarding the peace of Europe it had helped to win, and in which its fate would always be intertwined.

 * The Naval Pact was signed in London on June 18, 1935, without the British government having the courtesy to consult with France and Italy, or later, to inform them of the secret agreements which stipulated tht the Germans could build in certain categories more powerful warships than any the three Western nations then possessed. The French regarded this as treachery, which it was. They saw it as a further appeasement of Hitler, whose appetite grew on concessions.
 * Book Three, Chapter 15, Aftermath: Widening of the Gulf: 1934-1936, discussing the Anglo-German Naval Agreement.

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The Conversation

The Conversation is a 1974 film about a paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
 * Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Harry Caul will go anywhere to bug a private conversation. taglines

Harry Caul

 * [on the phone] This is Harry Caul from upstairs...Yes, well, thank you very much. Thank you...You're really very nice, yes, but...what I wanted to talk to you about was how did you put it in the apartment?...What about the alarm? Oh you did?...I thought I had the only key...well, what emergency could possibly...all right, yes. You see, I would be perfectly happy to have all my personal things burned up in a fire because I don't have anything personal. Nothing of value. No, nothing personal except my keys, you see, which I really would like to have the only copy of, Mrs. Evangelista. As of today, my mail will go to a post-office box with a combination on it and no keys. Goodbye.
 * [in a confessional] Bless me Father for I have sinned. Three months since my last confession. I - these are my sins. Took the Lord's name in vain on several occasions. On a number of occasions, I've taken newspapers from the racks without paying for them. I've - deliberately taken pleasure in impure thoughts. I've been involved in some work that I think, I think will be used to hurt these two young people. It's happened to me before. People were hurt because of my work and I'm afraid it could happen again and I'm - I was in no way responsible. I'm not responsible. For these and all my sins of my past life, I am heartily sorry.
 * [to an exhibitor] I build all my own equipment. Thank you.
 * It had nothin' to do with me, I mean, I just turned in the tapes...What they do with the tapes is their own business.
 * Oh God, what I have done. I have to destroy the tapes. It cannot happen again. The family was murdered because of me. Oh God, no protection. I can find them wherever they go, and I can hear them.
 * [to Ann, in a dream] Listen, my name is Harry Caul. Can you hear me? Don't be afraid. I know you don't know who I am, but I know you. There isn't much to say about myself. I - was very sick when I was a boy. I was paralyzed in my left arm and my left leg. I couldn't walk for six months. One doctor said that I'd probably never walk again. My mother used to lower me into a hot bath - it was therapy. One time the doorbell rang and she went down to answer it. I started sliding down. I could feel the water starting to come up to my chin, up to my nose, and when I woke up, my body was all greasy from the holy oil she put on my body. I remember being disappointed I survived. When I was five, my father introduced me to a friend of his, and for no reason at all, I hit him right in the stomach with all my strength. He died a year later. He'll kill ya if he gets the chance. I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of murder.

Martin Stett

 * Now look, don't get involved in this, Mr. Caul. Those tapes are dangerous. You heard 'em. You know what I mean. Someone may get hurt. Mr. Caul, be careful.
 * [to Harry] I'm not following you, I'm looking for you. There's a big difference.
 * [to Harry] We want you to deliver the tapes on Sunday, one o'clock. The Director will be there. He'll accept the tapes from you, in person.
 * [to Harry] You know that means we've been watching you. We have the tapes. They are perfectly safe. The Director was very anxious to hear them as soon as possible and you seemed to be, I don't know, disturbed. I couldn't take the chance that you might destroy our tapes. You understand, don't you, Mr Caul? Our tapes have nothing to do with you. Why don't you come over now and bring the photographs? The Director's here and he's prepared to pay you in full.
 * We know that you know, Mr. Caul. For your own sake, don't get involved any further. We'll be listening to you.

Stanley "Stan"

 * There isn't all that much you ever let me in on, Harry. You won't show me anything.  You keep it all to yourself.  You know damn well you will.
 * This is a quad in the center of the city. These are steps coming in here, benches all around.  Now it's 12 noon, which means that it's lunchtime for all the people that work in these offices around here.  Okay, the people are walking, talking, having lunch and it's crowded.  Two people are constantly moving in circles in and out of the crowd.  We don't know whether they'll sit down or what.  They're convinced that they can't be recorded because they're in a crowd and constantly moving.  They're the target.  Now the assignment is to get everything they say.  How would you do it?

William P. "Bernie" Moran

 * There is no moment between human beings that I cannot record and there is no method that I cannot figure out. I could figure out any of Harry's schemes, right?
 * I've gotta give credit where credit is due, right? I mean abracadabra, Harry. You see, I'm number two Harry.  I have to try harder.  The bugger got bugged, huh?

Other

 * The Director: I'm tired of this lying, all right. I'm tired of lies!

Dialogue

 * Stanley: Who's interested in these two, anyway?
 * Harry: I don't know for sure.
 * Stanley: The Justice Department?
 * Harry: No.
 * Stanley: Then I figure it must be the Infernal Revenue. Their tapes always put me to sleep.
 * Harry: Since when are you here to be entertained?
 * Stanley: Sometimes it's nice to know what they're talking about.
 * Harry: I don't care what they're talking about. All I want is a nice fat recording.

 * Ann: I don't know what I'm gonna get him for Christmas yet. He's already got everything.
 * Mark: He doesn't need anything anymore.
 * Ann: Well, I haven't decided what I'm gonna get you yet.
 * Mark: Better start looking.
 * Ann: What about me?
 * Mark: You'll see.
 * Ann: A lot of fun you are. You're supposed to tease me, give me hints, make me guess, you know.
 * Mark: Does it bother you?
 * Ann: What?
 * Mark: Walking around in circles.
 * Ann: [spotting a derelict on the park bench] Oh look, that's terrible.
 * Mark: He's not hurting anyone.
 * Ann: Neither are we. Oh God. Every time I see one of those old guys, I-I always think the same thing.
 * Mark: What do you think?
 * Ann: I always think that he was once somebody's baby boy...and he had a mother and a father who loved him. And now, there he is, half-dead on a park bench and where is his mother or his father or his uncles now? Anyway, that's what I always think.
 * Mark: I always think of how when they had the newspaper strike in New York, more of those old guys died. Fifty of them frozen died in one night.
 * Ann: Just because there were no newspapers?
 * Mark: Really.

 * Amy: Does something special happen between us on your birthday?
 * Harry: Like what?
 * Amy: Something personal.
 * Harry: What?
 * Amy: Like, uhm, telling me about yourself. Your secrets?
 * Harry: I don't have any secrets.
 * Amy: I'm your secret. You do have secrets, Harry? I know you do. Sometimes you come over here and you don't tell me. Once I saw you up by the staircase, hiding and watching for a whole hour. You think you're gonna catch me at something, you know? I know when you come over. I can always tell. You have a certain way of opening up the door. You know, first the key goes in real quiet, and then the door comes open real fast, just like you think you're gonna catch me at something. Sometimes I even think you're listening to me when I'm talking on the telephone.
 * Harry: What are you talking about?
 * Amy: I don't know. I just feel it. Really, I do.

 * Amy: Where do you work, Harry?
 * Harry: Oh, in different places, different jobs. I'm kinda a musician. A free-lance musician.
 * Amy: Where do you live? And why can't I call you over there?
 * Harry: 'Cause I don't have a telephone.
 * Amy: Do you live alone?
 * Harry: Why are you asking me all these questions?
 * Amy: Because it's your birthday.
 * Harry: I don't want people to ask me a lot of questions.
 * Amy: I want to know you.
 * Harry: Yes, I know you want to. I don't feel like answering any more questions.

 * Harry: You never used to ask a lot of questions.
 * Amy: Harry, I was so happy when you came over tonight. When I heard you open up the door, my toes were dancing under the covers. But I don't think I'm gonna wait for you anymore.

 * Ann: Do you think we can do this?
 * Mark: I'm tired of drinking anyhow...I'm tired of mostly everything.
 * Ann: Tired of me?
 * Mark: Tired of you, but not today.

 * Stan: What the hell are they talkin' about, for Chrissake?!
 * Harry: Well, I'm gettin' fed up.
 * Stan: About what?
 * Harry: About your asking me questions all day long.
 * Stan: Jesus!
 * Harry: Don't say that.
 * Stan: Well, for Chrissakes!
 * Harry: Stan, don't say that again, please. Don't use that word in vain. It bothers me.
 * Stan: What's the matter, Harry?
 * Harry: Your work's getting sloppy. We'd have a much better track here if you'd paid more attention to the recording and less attention to what they were talking about.

 * Stan: Harry, if you filled me in a little bit, once in a while, did you ever think of that?
 * Harry: It has nothing to do with me and even less to do with you.
 * Stan: It's curiosity. Did you ever hear of that? It's just god-damned human nature.
 * Harry: Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business is that I don't know anything about human nature. I don't know anything about curiosity. That's not part of what I do. This is my business.

 * Ann: I love you.
 * Mark: We're spending too much time together here.
 * Ann: No, let's stay just a little longer.
 * Mark: He'd kill us if he got the chance.

 * Bernie: Let me tell you somethin' about Harry Caul...I know you heard this a thousand times, Harry, but let me say it again. Here's to Harry - the best bar none. I'll drink to that.
 * Harry: The best what?
 * Bernie: The best bugger on the West Coast.

 * Meredith: I want to hear all about you. Where are you from?
 * Harry: New York.
 * Meredith: I used to live in New York. At first, I worked as a receptionist and then I got promoted to secretary and then I was promoted to gal-Friday and special assistant to the Boss. Then I married him. Do you live far from here? Harry?
 * Harry: Are you still married?
 * Meredith: Oh, I don't know. Probably. Why then, maybe I am. The last thing I heard, he was trying to scrape up enough money to buy another hardware store. And I ended up out here in San Francisco - unemployed - which is the entire story of my life up until tonight. You don't like me very much, do you? You don't want to talk to me or anything.
 * Harry: I didn't say that.
 * Meredith: Something is on your mind. I wish you'd tell me. I do, I wish that, I wish that you'd feel that you could talk to me and, and that we could be friends, I mean, aside from all of this junk.
 * Harry: If you were a girl who waited for someone...
 * Meredith: You can trust me.
 * Harry: ...and you never really knew when he was gonna come to see you. You just lived in a room alone and you knew nothing about him. And if you loved him and were patient with him, and even though he didn't dare ever tell you anything about himself personally, even though he may have loved you, would you..would you, would you go back to him?
 * Meredith: How would I know - how would I know that he loved me?
 * Harry: You'd have no way of knowing.

 * Harry: You should have seen it, though. These new microphones are just incredible. They really - I couldn't really believe it myself. We were over two hundred yards away and it was absolutely readable. I broke in a couple newreel cameramen and, you should have been there, Bernie, it was really...
 * Lurleen: What did they do?
 * Harry: Well, they took the cross-hairs of the telescope and they lined it up on the mouths of the...
 * Lurleen: No, the boy and the girl, what did they do?
 * Harry: Oh, I don't know. But it was really beautiful. Really something to see.

 * Harry: It's no ordinary conversation. It makes me feel...something.
 * Meredith: Forget it, Harry. It's only a trick.
 * Harry: What?
 * Meredith: A job. You're not supposed to feel anything about it. You're just supposed to do it. That's all. Relax, honey.

 * Martin: Do you want to hear that again?
 * The Director: [angrily] You want it to be true!
 * Martin: No, I don't. I just want you to know whatever you need to know. That's all.

Taglines

 * Harry Caul will go anywhere to bug a private conversation.
 * Harry Caul is an invader of privacy. The best in the business. He can record any conversation between two people anywhere. So far, three people are dead because of him.

Cast

 * Gene Hackman - Harry Caul
 * John Cazale - Stan
 * Harrison Ford - Martin Stett
 * Allen Garfield - William P. 'Bernie' Moran
 * Frederic Forrest - Mark
 * Cindy Williams - Ann
 * Michael Higgins - Paul
 * Elizabeth MacRae - Meredith
 * Teri Garr - Amy Fredericks
 * Robert Duvall - The Director (uncredited)

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Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 film, which combines elements of Westerns and film noir, about a one-armed stranger who comes to a small town. The town's inhabitants possess a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
 * Directed by John Sturges. Written by Don McGuire and Millard Kaufman, based on the story Bad Day at Hondo by Howard Breslin.

Suddenly you realize murder is at your elbow! - and there's no way out!

Doc T.R. Velie Jr.

 * I was just wondering what all you people are worrying about...Not that I have the slightest idea...I hold no truck with silence. I've got nothing to hide...It's just that you worry about the stranger only if you look at him from a certain aspect. From my perspective, I look upon him with the innocence of a fresh-laid egg.
 * Four years ago, something terrible happened here. We did nothing about it. Nothing! The whole town fell into a sort of settled melancholy, and all the people in it closed their eyes, and held their tongues, and failed the test with a whimper. And now something terrible's going to happen again. And, in a way, we're lucky because we've been given a second chance.

Dialogue

 * Conductor: Man, they look woebegone and far away.
 * Macreedy: Oh, I'll only be here twenty-four hours.
 * Conductor: In a place like this, it could be a lifetime.

 * Doc: He's no salesman, that's for sure. Unless he's peddlin' dynamite.
 * Sam: Maybe he's a cop or somethin'.
 * Doc: Ever see a cop with a stiff arm?
 * Sam: Maybe his arm's all right. Maybe he's just hangin' onto something tight in his pocket.
 * Doc: Like what? A pistol? A stick of TNT so he can blow up the whole mangy, miserable town.

 * Smith: I want to apologize for some of the people in town.
 * Macreedy: They act like they're sittin' on a keg.
 * Smith: A keg? Of what?
 * Macreedy: I don't know. Diamonds? Gunpowder?
 * Smith: Oh, it's nothing like that. We're suspicious of strangers is all. Hangover from the old days. The Old West.
 * Macreedy: I thought the tradition of the Old West was hospitality.
 * Smith: I'm trying to be hospitable, Mr. Macreedy. You going to be around long?
 * Macreedy: Could be.

 * Smith: You don't know anything about Komoko, now do you, Tim?
 * Sheriff: I do not. That's the point.
 * Smith: The point is, what you don't know won't hurt you.
 * Sheriff: Maybe there's something that I ought to know. Maybe there's something that I ought to ask you before the stranger comes back here and starts breathing down my neck.
 * Smith: Tim! You're just a lost ball in the high weeds. I told you a long time ago, nothing happened for you to worry about.
 * Sheriff: Thing is, I do worry. Maybe I ain't much else, but I'm sure a worrier. And I'm still the law.
 * Smith: Then do your job, Tim.
 * Sheriff: What is my job, Mr. Smith? Maybe I'd better find out before Macreedy does it for me.
 * Smith: Macreedy'll do nothing - and neither will you, Tim.
 * Sheriff: Suppose I decide to try?
 * Smith: That might be dangerous. Tim, you got the body of a hippo but the brain of a rabbit. Now don't overtax it.
 * Sheriff: [He lowers his eyes and looks away] Yes, Mr. Smith.

 * Coley: I think Macreedy's a nothin', a nobody...So there's nothin' to worry about...What can he find out? That Komoko...Suppose he finds out.
 * Smith: A nobody like Macreedy can raise a pretty big stink. The point is - who'd miss a nobody like Macreedy if he just, uh, say, disappeared? Who, Coley?...
 * Pete: Why don't we wait?...I mean, maybe he won't find anything. Maybe he'll just go away.
 * Smith: Not Macreedy. I know those maimed guys. Their minds get twisted. They put on hair-shirts and act like martyrs. All of 'em are do-gooders, freaks, troublemakers.
 * Pete: Let's wait and see. There's no danger yet.
 * Smith: No danger, he says. This guy's like a carrier of small pox. Since he's arrived, this town has a fever, an infection, and it's spreading.

 * Sheriff: Let Smith find himself a new boy. I can't take it another day. Four years ago, if I'd of done my job, if I'd of checked up and found out what happened. But I didn't! It was just like Smith figured...I didn't even try to find out. Don't you understand? You know, when you wear this badge, you're the Law. And when somebody does something against the Law, then you're supposed to do something about it. Me - I did nothin'. That's what's eatin' me. What kind of prescription you got for that?
 * Doc: I don't know. I haven't found one for myself. But there's one thing, Tim, don't quit.
 * Sheriff: Why not?
 * Doc: Because maybe this feller Macreedy's got the prescription.

 * Liz: Things change.
 * Macreedy: Sure do. And Smith is the kid who changes 'em, isn't he?...What's wrong with this town of yours, Miss Worth?...
 * Liz: I don't want to get involved.
 * Macreedy: Involved in what?
 * Liz: Whatever you're up to. Whatever happens, I've got to go on living in this town. These people are my neighbors, my friends.
 * Macreedy: All of 'em?
 * Liz: This is my town, Mr. Macreedy, like it or not.
 * Macreedy: Well, if you don't like it, why do you stick around?
 * Liz: My brother Pete, he'd never leave.
 * Macreedy: Didn't it ever occur to you that you might leave without him? You look like a pretty independent young lady. Your brother seems to me...
 * Liz: Weak. Yeah, I know. That's why I couldn't leave him.
 * Macreedy: What did your brother do?
 * Liz: What do you care? What do you care about Black Rock?
 * Macreedy: I don't care anything about Black Rock. Only it just seems to me that there aren't many towns like this in America. But one town like it is enough and because I think somethin' kind of bad happened here, Miss Worth, somethin' I can't quite seem to find the handle to.
 * Liz: You don't know what you're talking about.
 * Macreedy: Well, I know this much. The rule of law has left here and the gorillas have taken over.

 * Smith: Why would a man like you be looking for a lousy Jap farmer?...I believe a man is as big as what'll make him mad. Nobody around here seems big enough to get you mad.
 * Macreedy: What makes you mad, Mr. Smith?...The Japanese make you mad, don't they?
 * Smith: Well, that's different. After that sneak attack on Pearl Harbor...Bataan.
 * Macreedy: Komoko made you mad.
 * Smith: It's the same thing. Loyal Japanese-Americans, that's a laugh. They're all mad dogs. What about Corregidor, the death march?
 * Macreedy: What did Komoko have to do with Corregidor?
 * Smith: He was a Jap, wasn't he? Look, Mr. Macreedy, there's a law in this county about shootin' dogs. But when I see a mad dog, I don't wait for him to bite me. I swear, you're beginning to make me mad.
 * Macreedy: All strangers do.
 * Smith: No they don't. Not all of 'em. Some do when they come around snooping.
 * Macreedy: Snooping for what?
 * Smith: I don't know. Outsiders coming in looking for something.
 * Macreedy: Looking for what?
 * Smith: I don't know. Somebody's always looking for something in this part of the West. To the historians, it's the "Old West." To the book writers, it's the "Wild West." To the businessman, it's the "Undeveloped West." They say we're all poor and backward and I guess we are. We don't even have enough water. But to us, this place is our West. And I wish they'd leave us alone.
 * Macreedy: Leave you alone to do what?
 * Smith: I don't know what you mean.
 * Macreedy: What happened to Komoko?
 * Smith: He went away, I told you. Shortly after he left, some kids went out there. They got foolin' around and burned his place down. That's how it was. You know how kids are.
 * [Macreedy laughs]
 * Macreedy: I don't believe you. There's somethin' buried up there....[He pulls the wildflowers from his pocket] That means a grave. I suppose you knew that. I saw a lot of it, you know, overseas. I figured it wasn't a human grave because it wasn't marked. Kind of a mystery, isn't it?

 * Doc: They're gonna kill you with no hard feelings.
 * Macreedy: And you're gonna sit there and let 'em do it.
 * Doc: I try to live right. I drink my milk every day. But mostly, I try to mind my own business - which is something I'd advise you to do.

 * Coley: I'm half-hoss, half-alligator. You mess with me and I'll kick a lung outta ya. Whaddya think of that?
 * Macreedy: No comment.
 * Coley: You know, talkin' to you is like pullin' teeth. You wear me out. You're a yellow-bellied Jap lover. Am I right or wrong?
 * Macreedy: You're not only wrong - you're wrong at the top of your voice.
 * Coley: You don't like my voice?
 * Macreedy: [To Smith] I think your friend is trying to start trouble.
 * Smith: Why ever would he want to do that?
 * Macreedy: Well, I don't know. Maybe he thinks that if he needles me enough, I might crack. I might even fight back. And then either he or your other ape sittin' over there could beat me to death and cop a plea of self-defense.
 * Smith: I don't think that'll be necessary. You're so scared now you'll probably drown in your own sweat.

 * Macreedy: Wouldn't it have been easier to wait until I turned my back? Or are there too many witnesses present?
 * Smith: You're still in trouble.
 * Macreedy: You're in trouble. Whatever happens, you're sunk.
 * Smith: You got things a big twisted.
 * Macreedy: You killed Komoko, Smith, and sooner or later you're gonna go up for it. Not because you killed him, because I think in a town like this, you can get away with it. But because you didn't have guts enough to do it alone. You put your trust in guys like this - and Hector here - not the most dependable of God's creatures. And one of these days, they're gonna catch on that you're playin' 'em for a sap. And then what are ya gonna do? Peel 'em off, one by one? And in the meantime, one of 'em's gonna crack and when they do, you're gonna go down - but hard. 'Cause they got somethin' on ya, Smith. Something to use when the goin' gets tough. And it's gettin' tougher every minute.

 * Pete: My memories are so pleasant as it is...
 * Macreedy: It's gonna take an awful lot of whiskey to wash out your guts. Go on, go on! Swill it! What is there left for you to do? You're as dead as Komoko and you don't know it....
 * Pete: You don't have to remind me. I've never forgotten.
 * Macreedy: Oh, isn't that noble of you. You haven't forgotten. And you're ashamed. That's really noble of you. I suppose four years from now, you'll be sittin' around here tellin' people you haven't forgotten me either. That's real progress. In the meantime, I'll be as dead as a - WHY DON'T YOU TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED? [To Doc] What happened?
 * Doc: Why did you come here, Mr. Macreedy?
 * Macreedy: Did Komoko have any other family besides his son Joe?
 * Doc: Son? Nobody around here ever knew he had a son.
 * Macreedy: Yes, he had a son. He's dead too. He's buried in Italy...Why, this Komoko boy died trying to save my life. They gave him a medal. I came here to give it to his old man. I figured the least I could do was give him one day out of my life.

 * Doc: Smith owned Adobe Flat. He leased it to Komoko. He figured he had cheated him because you gotta have water to raise anything. There never was any water on Adobe Flat. Komoko dug a well. He must have gone down sixty feet.
 * Pete: He got plenty of water. That made Smith pretty sore. He didn't like Japs anyway. The day after Pearl Harbor, Smith went to Sand City.
 * Macreedy: Yeah, he got turned down, trying to enlist.
 * Pete: Well, when he got back, he was pretty sore. Around ten o'clock, we all started drinking.
 * Macreedy: Ten in the morning.
 * Pete: Yeah. Smith, Coley, Sam, Hector, and me - we were all drunk. Patriotic drunk. We wanted to go out to scare the Jap a little and have a little fun. Well, when we got there, he heard us comin' and he locked the door. And then Smith started a fire. And the Jap - he came running out. His clothes were all burning. And then Smith shot him. I didn't even know he had a gun.
 * Macreedy: Then you got scared and buried him, and kept your mouths shut, hmm?
 * Pete: Yeah.
 * Macreedy: [He shoves the bottle toward Pete] Well, go ahead and have your drink now. You're gonna need it.

 * Liz: Help me up, Smitty.
 * Smith: You were gonna help me, Liz. I still need your help.
 * Liz: [confused] I did everything you said.
 * Smith: You two started out in a car and that's the way you're gonna end up. Over a cliff - burning. You can blame Macreedy for that. He said I had too many witnesses.
 * Liz: But why me? Why start with me?
 * Smith: I gotta start with somebody.

 * Doc: about Joe Kokomo's Medal of Honor Maybe we need it. It would give us something to build on. This town's wrecked, just as though it was bombed out. Maybe it can come back.
 * Macreedy: Some towns do and some towns don't. It depends on the people.
 * Doc: That medal would help.

 * Conductor: What's all the excitement? What happened?
 * Macreedy: A shooting.
 * Conductor: Thought it was something. First time the Streamliner's stopped here in four years.
 * Macreedy: Second time.

Cast

 * Spencer Tracy - John J. Macreedy
 * Robert Ryan - Reno Smith
 * Anne Francis - Liz Wirth
 * Dean Jagger - Sheriff Tim Horn
 * Walter Brennan - Doc T.R. Velie Jr.
 * John Ericson - Pete Wirth
 * Ernest Borgnine - Coley Trimble
 * Lee Marvin - Hector David
 * Russell Collins - Mr. Hastings, Telegrapher
 * Walter Sande - Sam, Cafe Proprietor

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Countdown (game show)

Countdown is a British game show currently hosted by Jeff Stelling and Rachel Riley. It was the first program to be broadcast on Channel 4, in 1982.

Cast

 * Richard Whiteley
 * Carol Vorderman
 * Jo Brand
 * Susie Dent
 * Gyles Brandreth
 * Des Lynam
 * Des O'Connor
 * Jeff Stelling
 * Rachel Riley

Series Premiere (2 November 1982)
Richard Whiteley: As a countdown to a brand new channel ends, a brand new Countdown begins.

7 January 1991
(The word "wankers" was produced in the Letters Game. Both contestants, Lawrence Pearce and Gino Corr, declared it. The round was played again because of the offensive word, but the out-take has featured on many clips shows. Brandreth was special guest at the time.)
 * Pearce: Not sure if I dare say this one, WANKERS.
 * Whiteley: Well, there seems to be no problem with the word "wankers". Be interesting to see if that's not in the dictionary. Gino?
 * Corr: We're a pair of WANKERS.
 * Brandreth: They anticipated my next line: What is Richard Whiteley doing asking for a definition of...?

"Gotcha" Episode (25 November 1998)

 * (OMETHINGS appears on the board)
 * Amanda: I've got 5.

 * Whiteley: What?! 5? OK well how about you?

 * Max: No, 6. (Whiteley puts his head in his hands in disbelief)

 * Amanda: I've got diarrhoea! (referring to her answer)

 * Whiteley: Well, fantastic! What have you got, Richard?

 * Max: Yeah, I've got diarrhoea too!

 * Dictionary Corner: I have to say, we've got diarrhoea as well! (to Whiteley) Have you not got diarrhoea?

 * Whiteley: No, it's pathetic isn't it?

 * Dictionary Corner: Well, it's a collection of bowels incontinence!

 * Whiteley: I think this show is a wind-up for me!

 * [After pressing his buzzer and being told its not the Conundrum]

 * Max: Well, I've got a limmerick:
 * There was an old man called Whiteley

 * Who's puns were always said frightfully

 * He took some Viagra, and now like Niagara

 * He rushes and gushes twice nightly!

 * (a Numbers Game with 75, 2, 6, 3, 8, 7; the target is 623)

 * Max: Yeah I've got it.

 * Whiteley: Lets hear it.

 * Max: 6.....2 3.
 * Carol: What, like that? (writes 623 on the board)

 * Carol: No, you can't do that.

 * Max: Is that not in the rules, didn't it say that?

 * Whiteley: No, no it didn't.

 * Max: Are you sure?

 * Whiteley: YES IT DID!

 * Whiteley: Richard, look me in the eye. (Max looks at Whiteley) You know you're talking a load of bollocks, don't you?

 * Amanda: (to Whiteley) Can you tell me the answer to the Conundrum?

 * Noel Edmonds: (to Whiteley while giving him his Gotcha Award) Well, a short time ago you were the only person without diarrhoea, how are you now?

 * Whiteley: I've got it now, I can tell you!

27 September 2001

 * (context: The letter F has appeared on the letters board.)
 * Contestant: And a vowel.
 * Carol: A.
 * Contestant: Consonant.
 * Carol: R.
 * Contestant: Consonant.
 * (The letter T appears, making the letters selection FART.) (Laughter)
 * Carol: T!
 * Richard: I've been waiting 19 years for this moment.
 * Carol: I know! (Laughter) That stays in!
 * Richard: Yeah, I agree. It stays in, that. We're not editing that out.
 * Carol: Carry on, folks.
 * Richard: Let's carry on.
 * Contestant: Can I have a vowel please, Carol.
 * Carol: A vowel. (The letter I appears, making the letters selection FARTI) (Laughter) I!

11 May 2007

 * (Context: The letters selection is EAIPDCRQP)
 * Des O'Connor: Let's have your seven first, Eileen.
 * Eileen: CRAPPED. (Laughter)
 * Des: CRAPPED? I think that's, er... (Looking at Dictionary Corner) You're not looking that up are you, CRAPPED? And what have you got, Nick?
 * Nick: CRAPPIE.
 * Des: CRAPPIE. Right. What else have we got?
 * Richard Digance: It's just...at times like this, you just go through motions really, don't you? (Laughter)

21 October 2008

 * Des: What's your seven, Allan?
 * Allan: SPANKER.
 * Des: SPANKER, and yours Charlie?
 * Charlie: I can't resist, sorry. WANKERS. (bleeped, laughter)
 * Susie: Yeah, right!

12 January 2009

 * (Context:Stelling and Riley's first episode.)
 * Jeff: It's cold and it's damp and it's miserable and the electricity bill and the phone bill and the gas bill have all arrived on the same day and it's still six months until the Summer holidays. But are we downhearted?
 * Audience: NO!
 * Jeff: No, we are not because Countdown is back. (Applause) And I know! I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Who the heck am I?" Well, Stelling is the name. Six consonants, two vowels and, in truth, the words I'm more used to are "foul", "penalty", "referee", "blind as a bat"...
 * Umm, look, we're a couple of new faces and we've got a sparkling new set as well here, but rest assured that this is the same Countdown you've grown to love over the years.

25 August 2009

 * Jeff: What have you got, Ed?
 * Ed: Eight
 * Jeff: And Paul?
 * Paul: Eight
 * Jeff: Let's have yours first, Paul
 * Paul: Sorry about this, it's BASTARDS (bleeped)
 * Jeff: Errm, Ed?
 * Ed: Glad I didn't have to say that, same word.

14 September 2009

 * (Context:Jo Brand is in Dictionary Corner alongside lexicographer Susie Dent. They are asked for any words which they can find by host Jeff Stelling.)
 * Jo: I've got a nine, actually. I know, it's quite impressive, isn't it Jeff?
 * Jeff: Very impressive, very impressive.
 * Jo: Anyway, my cat wasn't very well recently. I think she got attacked by another cat and...it kind of got a...a kind of a cut and it...it kind of got very sore and [the cat] started weeping a bit. Anyway, the vet said it was PUSSIEROT. (Laughter) Sorry. I'm trying my best. I'm sorry.
 * Jeff: Susie, anything to match PUSSIEROT? (Laughter)
 * Susie: I really hope not.

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Anarcho-capitalism

 is a that advocates the elimination of the state in favor of, private property, and free markets. Anarcho-capitalists hold that, in the absence of statute (law by centralized s and ), society tends to contractually self-regulate and civilize through the discipline of the free market (in what its proponents describe as a ).

B

 * I believe in individual freedom; that's my primary and complete commitment—individual liberty. That’s what it's all about.  And that's what socialism was supposed to be about, or anarchism was supposed to be about, and tragically has been betrayed.
 * Murray Bookchin, speaking to a crowd of anarcho-capitalists and other libertarians at a Libertarian Party Conference, depicted in Anarchism in America, directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher (15 January 1983).

 * Although anarchism rests on liberal intellectual foundations, notably the distinction between state and society, the protean character of the doctrine makes it difficult to disinguish clearly different schools of anarchist thought. But one important distinction is between individualist anarchism and social anarchism. The former emphasizes individual liberty, the sovereignty of the individual, the importance of private property or possession, and the iniquity of all monopolies. It may be seen as liberalism taken to an extreme conclusion. 'Anarcho-capitalism' is a contemporary variant of this school.
 * , Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Anarchism entry, p. 21 (1992).

C

 * Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. … I should add, however, that I find myself in substantial agreement with people who consider themselves anarcho-capitalists on a whole range of issues; and for some years, was able to write only in their journals. And I also admire their commitment to rationality — which is rare — though I do not think they see the consequences of the doctrines they espouse, or their profound moral failings.
 * Noam Chomsky in Z Net, Answers from Chomsky to eight questions on anarchism, 1996.

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 * Perhaps the best way to see why anarcho-capitalism would be much more peaceful than our present system is by analogy. Consider our world as it would be if the cost of moving from one country to another were zero. Everyone lives in a housetrailer and speaks the same language. One day, the president of France announces that because of troubles with neighboring countries, new military taxes are being levied and conscription will begin shortly. The next morning the president of France finds himself ruling a peaceful but empty landscape, the population having been reduced to himself, three generals, and twenty-seven war correspondents.
 * David Friedman, Chapter: "The Stability Problem", The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (2nd ed.), p. 123.

 * We must ask, not whether an anarcho-capitalis society would be safe from a power grab by the men with the guns (safety is not an available option), but whether it would be safer than our society is from a comparable seizure of power by the men with the guns. I think the answer is yes.  In our society, the men who must engineer such a coup are politicians, military officers, and policemen, men selected precisely for the characteristic of desiring power and being good at using it.  They are men who already believe that they have a right to push other men around - that is their job. They are particularly well qualified for the job of seizing power. Under anarcho-capitalism the men in control of protection agencies are selected for their ability to run an efficient business and please their customers.  It is always possible that some will turn out to be secret power freaks as well, but it is surely less likely than under our system where the corresponding jobs are labeled 'non-power freaks need not apply'.
 * David Friedman, Chapter: "The Stability Problem", The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism (2nd ed.), p. 123–124.

H

 * Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services, without regulation, solely on the basis of value for value. It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash and credit. Economically, this system is anarchy, and proudly so.
 * Karl Hess, "The Death of Politics", essay published in Playboy (July 1976).
 * Also available in Hess's autobiography, Mostly on the Edge.

 * [A]fter I got evicted from the Republican Party, I began reading considerably more of the works of American anarchists, thanks largely to Murray Rothbard … and I was just amazed.
 * Karl Hess, Anarchism in America, directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher (15 January 1983).

L

 * The American Benjamin Tucker (1854-1939) believed that maximum individual liberty would be assured where the free market was not hindered or controlled by the State and monopolies. The affairs of society would be governed by myriad voluntary societies and cooperatives, by, as he aptly put it, “un-terrified” Jeffersonian democrats, who believed in the least government possible. Since World War II this tradition has been reborn and modified in the United States as anarcho-capitalism or libertarianism.
 * Carl Levyl, Anarchism, under the "Anarcho-individualism" heading, Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2006.

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 * Individualist anarchism … stands in rigorous opposition to attacking the person or property of individuals. The philosophy revolves around the "Sovereignty of the Individual"—as an early champion, Josiah Warren, phrased it. … Largely due to the path breaking work of Murray Rothbard, 20th century individualist anarchism is no longer inherently suspicious of profit-making practices, such as charging interest. Indeed, it embraces the free market as the voluntary vehicle of economic exchange. But as individualist anarchism draws increasingly upon the work of Austrian economists such as Mises and Hayek, it draws increasingly farther away from left anarchism.
 * , "Anarchism: Two Kinds", Mises Daily (The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 13 December 1999).

 * The philosophy of 'anarcho-capitalism' dreamed up by the 'libertarian' New Right, has nothing to do with Anarchism as known by the Anarchist movement proper. It is a lie . . . Patently unbridled capitalism . . . needs some force at its disposal to maintain class privileges, either from the State itself or from private armies. What they believe in is in fact a limited State -- that is, one in which the State has one function, to protect the ruling class, does not interfere with exploitation, and comes as cheap as possible for the ruling class. The idea also serves another purpose . . . a moral justification for bourgeois consciences in avoiding taxes without feeling guilty about it.
 * Albert Meltzer, Anarchism: Arguments For and Against (1981), p. 50.

N

 * I'm a, what, an anarcho-capitalist socialist… I don't know… I'm kinda a moderate, I think I'm moderate.
 * Krist Novoselic, interviewed by Nick Gillespie, "Nirvana's Krist Novoselic on Punk, Politics, & Why He Dumped the Dems", ReasonTV (19 June 2014), 11:33–11:42.

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 * Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.
 * Murray N. Rothbard, "Exclusive Interview With Murray Rothbard", The New Banner: A Fortnightly Libertarian Journal (25 February 1972).

 * I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.
 * Murray N. Rothbard, "Society Without A State" in The Libertarian Forum (1975).

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Talk:Euripides

Is there a source for the following quote "Drink, enjoy and feel good. Consider the present time your property, all else is destiny", it is frequently cited in Dutch "Drink, geniet en voel je goed. Beschouw het heden als je eigendom, het overige behoort aan het lot." Can't find a source though. I want to use it for a special occasion, but I don't like using a misattributed quote. I also found this English version: “Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.”

Euripides apparently made one of the earliest references (in Fragment) to the Ancient Greek Proverb: "Quem deus vult perdere, prius dementat" Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.

Can someone else confirm this? Pubilius Syrus certainly made a similar reference later in Maxim 911.

 * The Latin you've quoted is found in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations as an anonymous Latin saying, with no date given. The quote from Euripides is also mentioned in Bartlett's as a fragment taken from an unnamed work. A footnote lists variations of this quote, the oldest being from Lycurgus, making it older than that of Euripides:

 * When falls on man the anger of the gods, First from his mind they banish understanding.

 * - InvisibleSun 22:32, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

What about the "Sophocles draws men as they ought to be..." quote?

Reference for the Those whom the gods...

My copy of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979 edition) lists it in the original Greek (which I don't know how do on my keyboard) as by our old friend Anon (entry 10:1) and comments

''Scholiast on Sophocles, Antigone, 622ff. See R. C. Jebb's edn (1906), Appendix pp 255-6. Perhaps best known in Latin translation. See 199:15.''

199:15 turns out to be one James Duport (1606-1679), who wrote in his Homeri Gnomologia (1660, p 282), Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius (Whom Jupiter would destroy, he first sends mad)

--NotSaussure 18:50, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I did some checking of many of the Greek, Latin and English sources available on the internet and discovered an error in the attributions to Lycurgus of Sparta statements which were actually quotations of a "poet" made in Oratio In Leocratem [Oration Against Leocrates] Ch. 21. line 92 by Lycurgus of Athens, who came after Euripedes, and was an admirer of him. This error probably began in one of the 20th century editions of Bartlett's and has been repeated in a few other places. I posted many of the most common variants and derivatives on the page, with some sourcing. I probably won't have time to do much more on the page today, but might do a little more here within the next week or two. ~ Kalki 09:32, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

For reference, the "scholiast on Sophocles' Antigone" (line 620, not 622) gives it as follows: μετὰ σοφίας γὰρ ὑπό τινος ἀοίδιμον καὶ κλεινὸν ἔπος πέφανται, τὸ ὅταν δ' ὁ δαίμων ἀνδρὶ πορσύνῃ κακὰ τὸν νοῦν ἔβλαψε πρῶτον ᾧ βουλεύεται. -- trans.:
 * "With wisdom the well-known and famous word was revealed by someone": -- that is, whenever a daimon prepares harm against a man, he first damages the mind of the one he is plotting against.

 * I've redone the ascription, making clear that it does not come from Euripides, and added the version from the Sophoclean scholia mentioned by NotSaussure. Also done a new, more literal, translation of the Lycurgus version. 130.195.86.36 23:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

"Love is all we have..."
The quote "Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other" is listed under William Arrowsmith's translation of Orestes, but I read that and another translation and found nothing like it. Does anyone know if the quote is credible and, if so, what its source is?
 * It appears to be from line 298 in at least one publication of the Arrowsmith translation. ~ Kalki 09:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It appears to be from line 298 in at least one publication of the Arrowsmith translation. ~ Kalki 09:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

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 * Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

 * Do not consider painful what is good for you.

 * Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

 * Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

 * Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

 * Friends show their love in times of trouble.

 * Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

 * He is not a lover who does not love forever.

 * He is wise that is wise to himself.

 * Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

 * I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

 * I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

 * I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

 * If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

 * Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

 * Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

 * In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

 * It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

 * It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

 * It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

 * Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

 * Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

 * Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

 * Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

 * Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

 * Luckier than one's neighbour, but still not happy.

 * Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

 * Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. (See comment below)

 * Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

 * Much effort, much prosperity.

 * Never that which is shall die.

 * New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

 * No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

 * No one is happy all his life long.

 * No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

 * No one who lives in error is free.

 * Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

 * One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

 * One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

 * Only a madman would give good for evil.

 * Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

 * Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

 * Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

 * Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

 * Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

 * Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

 * Slight not what's near, when aiming at what's far.
 * Variant: Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

 * Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.

 * Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

 * The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

 * The best of seers is he who guesses well.

 * The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

 * The bold are helpless without cleverness.

 * The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

 * The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

 * The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

 * The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

 * The greatest pleasure of life is love.

 * The language of truth is simple.

 * The lucky person passes for a genius.

 * The wavering mind is but a base possession.

 * The wisest men follow their own direction.

 * There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

 * There is just one life for each of us: our own.

 * There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

 * There is the sky, which is all men's together.

 * This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

 * Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

 * To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.

 * To generous souls, every task is noble.

 * To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

 * Unhappiness remembering happiness.

 * Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

 * Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

 * We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.

 * Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

 * What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.

 * What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

 * When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

 * Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

 * Woman is woman's natural ally.

 * You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

 * Your very silence shows you agree.

 * Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

 * Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

 * I have placed the "...what not believe" quote in the article. I see it often attributed to Euripides but have never found a citation despite much searching.  Hopefully, someone will spot it someday and provide the citation. Star-lists (talk) 00:28, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Source Information for "Silence is true wisdom's best reply."
I believe that the following fragment:  ἡ γὰρ σιωπὴ τοῖς σοφοῖσ<ιν> ἀπόκρισις , is the source of this quote. This fragment appears in Euripides : Volume VIII, Loeb Classical Library 506 ( Fragments ; Oedipus-Chrysippus, Other Fragments, tr. Christopher Collard, Martin Cropp, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674996259, 9780674996250 in Unidentified Plays, Fragment 977, with the following translation: "Silence is an answer in the eyes of the wise." Not wishing to clutter up the Euripides main page, I am placing this information here on the Discussion page: the actual quote, with variant translation, will be placed on the main page with a note referring the reader to the Discussion page for sourcing information. CononOfSamos (talk) 06:17, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

So strong the yearning of mankind for life

 * Ὦ φιλόζωοι βροτοὶ, οἱ τὴν ἐπιστείχουσαν ἡμέραν ἰδεῖν οὕτως ἔρως βροτοῖσιν ἐγκεῖται βίου
 * O ye life-loving mortals, Who ever long to see the coming day, Though ye be weighed down with a thousand sorrows! So strong the yearning of mankind for life.
 * Attributed to Euripides, said to be from Phoenix Fragments 12, in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle]

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Talk:Publilius Syrus

Probably after Euripides, but maybe worth mentioning in his article anyway, Pubilius Syrus in Maxim 911 said: "Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad."

Unattributed

 * “Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.”

Numbering
A problem with the Sentences is it's been edited so many times that an "original" version is quite hard to come by, but it's fairly clear that some of the original latin quotes given even in the verified section are at least misnumbered. As far as we know, the original was published alphabetized, so listing them in numerical order should also produce an alphabetized listing. — OttoMäkelä (talk) 17:35, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
 * More specifically, could "He who helps the guilty, shares the crime", given as Maxim 139 actually be a loose translation of Maxim 407, "Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur" (translated here as "The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved")? — OttoMäkelä (talk) 17:40, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

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User:Thefourdotelipsis~enwikiquote

"Nessescity is the mother of intention."

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New Warriors

New Warriors is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics. It features a team of young adult superheroes, and has been marketed mainly towords the MTV Generation.

Issue 25
Justice: Just because I have powers which would make it tempting to ignore the law - doesn't give me the right to.

Issue 74
Justice: A world without heroes isn't worth living in!

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The Emperor's New School

The Emperor's New School is an animated Disney Channel series based on The Emperor's New Groove.

Quotes

 * Yzma: We're going to pay our failing friend Kuzco a visit. Kronk: You guys're getting along now. That's great. Yzma: No, no he's not our friend. Kronk: But you just said he was. Yzma: But he's not. Kronk: Then why're paying him a visit if we don't like him? Yzma: It's an expression!
 * Kuzco: Now it's time for Kuzco's Doodles! That's the part of the show- Kronk: Hey, what about me? Kuzco: What about you? Kronk: Well, I'm helping, too. Kuzco: So...? Kronk: Shouldn't my picture be there, too? Kuzco: Are you serious? But Kuzco's Doodles' a recognized brand name, that people know and trust. Can't change the name. Kronk: Well then, I'm not going to help. Kuzco: Okay... what if I said "with Kronk?" Kronk: Featuring Kronk. Kuzco: Okay, okay, fine. Kuzco: Now it's time for Kuzco's Doodles! Featuring Kronk! Kronk: Where's my picture?" Kuzco: There! Happy?!
 * Kronk: Gee, Yzma sure is mean. Maybe I should report her to Principal Amzy.
 * Yzma: I know! I'll climb the highest mountain, and put a snow potion in the clouds. Then, it'll snow on the mountain. And we'll have snowball fights, and build snowmen, and drink hot chocolate, and make snow angels. It's a winter wonderland! Kronk: Sounds like fun! Yzma: Fun? We don't want to have fun!
 * Yzma: How can I make Kuzco lose the race? Oh I know. First I'll turn him into a hippopotamus. Then I'll put the hippo on a diet. Then I'll invite him to dinner. And then I'll feed him and feed him and feed him until he gets so big, he can't even move. It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!"
 * Kronk: Once Kuzco fails school I'll become...wait, what'll I become?
 * Kuzco: Do you think I'm going to save someone's life by saying Squeak Squeak Squeakers? Mr. Moleguaco: I doubt it, you just said, "Go ahead, jump in the shark tank."
 * Yzma: Can't you see I'm busy thinking of ways to crush Kuzco's chance of graduating? Kronk: But you're the principal. Aren't you supposed to help the students? Yzma: You still don't get it, do you? Kronk: I don't get it? Do I want it? What exactly is it?
 * Yzma: Everyone got your emperors, umm frogs. Well let's get chopping.
 * Yzma: Kronk! This's the wrong homework. Look at the name. Kronk : (reads name tag) Chaca's homework. Uh, so that's their last name. The homework family. That's weird.
 * Malina: Kuzco, I want you to graduate and become emperor. I want to help you out. If you fake your homework, you'll only fake graduate. And then you'll be a fake emperor.
 * Kuzco: So, it all worked out. I learned my lesson, Kronk won first prize for his "Bucket Handle", and Malina fell madly in love with me. Okay, maybe that last part isn't true. But I did get a cool new butler. For about eight minutes.
 * Kronk: You want Kuzco to beat me up? Ha! Back to planet Earth, Malina. I mean, look at the guy. He's a toothpick. You don't stand a chance. Kuzco: Yeah, uh, quick emperor question, how does this help? Malina: Kronk's going to throw the fight. Kronk: Throw it where? Kuzco: Oh, I get it! He takes a dive. Kronk: So we're swimming now? Malina: No, Kronk, you and Kuzco pretend to fight, and you let Kuzco win. Then Kavo will be afraid of Kuzco, and leave him alone. Kronk: Yeah... What's Kavo got to do with this? Kuzco: He wants to fight me at sunset. Kronk: Well, I'm not surprised. You're cruel and insensitive, makin' fun of him all the time. It's not nice. Good for Kavo. Kuzco: Yeah, but bad for me, meathead. Kronk: See? That's what I'm talking about! It's on, buddy! You, me. Throw down. Malina: No, no, no! You've gotta let Kuzco win, or he's going to get the snot beat out of him! Kronk: Ew. Kuzco: Do you have to be so graphic? Let's just get this over with. Kronk: So... What are we doing again?
 * Kuzco: Okay, I know. I just tipped the scale of self-pity way past 10. So to spare you any more of that ugliness, I'll perform the rest of the scene with... hand puppets. (as Malina) "Oh, Kuzco. Stop worrying about poor little you. You gotta find the kids. Everything isn't always about you, you, you, you!" (as himself) "You're so right, Malina. Sometimes all I care about is me, me, me! But I'll be better now. I'll get the kids back." (as Malina) "And I'm coming with you." (as himself) "So, let's hug now. Smoochy-smoochy. Kiss, kiss, kiss." Okay. Enough of that. Let's move on!
 * Kuzco: Gotta admit though, baby-sitting isn't easy. It's like work. Not the bad kind. Good kind. Hey! I've already learned my big important lesson for today. Cool. This is gonna be a short episode.
 * Malina: (referring to Kuzco's imaginary friend, Brad Bowlarama) I'm surprised his name isn't Brad Bananastaircasehat.
 * Yzma: Kuzco would rather become a rabbit, a llama, or a frog before bowing down to you. Kronk: Hasn't he already become all of those things?
 * Yzma: I know! I'll turn Kuzco into a flea, a harmless little flea!  Then I'll put that flea inside a box, and that box inside a bigger box and mail it to myself.  When it arrives, I smash it with a hammer! It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!  Or to save on postage, I'll just use this: [holds up potion bottle]
 * Azma: (in cough) Are you empress? Yzma: Of course I'm empress!
 * Yzma: Did you pack long underwear? Azma: (in cough) Yes I did, Yzma, really did.

Yzstuff

 * Yzmopolis
 * Yzmawood
 * Yzma jeans
 * Yzma shirts
 * Yzma chocolate
 * Yzma magazines
 * Yzma FM
 * Yzma movies
 * Yzma books
 * Yzmars
 * Yzmasaurous Rex
 * Yzmatopia
 * Yzmaween
 * Yzmas
 * Yzma Academy

Kuzco's self-proclaimed possessions/items named after Kuzco

 * Kuzcoins
 * Kuzclone
 * Kuzcogarten
 * Kuzcake
 * Kuzcarbor Day
 * Kuzconstellation class
 * Kuzco of the Past
 * That's So Kuzco
 * Kuzco Possible
 * Kuzco Man
 * Kuzcoteque
 * Kuzco's Doodles
 * Kuzcarnival
 * Kuzco Allegiance Day
 * Kuzco Appliance Day
 * Kuzclub
 * Kuzc-yoga
 * Kuzco Academy
 * Kuzford University

title: The Emperor's New School