A Pure Formality Quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Onoff: I'll take your advice and keep quiet.

  • Andre, the Young Policeman: An idea for a new book?

    Onoff: You don't write because you have an idea, but because you can't do anything else.

  • Onoff: If writers knew whose mouths would up spewing out their works, they'd cut off their hands.

    Inspector: And it would be a pity.

  • Onoff: Is it possible to kill someone and not remember?

  • Inspector: It's just a simple formality.