The Cassandra Crossing Quotes

  • Col. Stephen Mackenzie: Good God woman! Do you think I would personally send a thousand people to their deaths?

    Dr. Elena Stradner: No. But I think you'd simply let them be killed. And that's almost worse.

  • Col. Stephen Mackenzie: [On speaker phone] I don't have to tell you what we're up against!

    Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain: What you're up against? I may be the only doctor for a thousand potential plague victims if I haven't caught it myself.

    Col. Stephen Mackenzie: That's exactly why it's important to contain the disease now and why you'll all be heading for an isolation facility in Poland, where you'll get the very best...

    Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain: In the meantime, what do you intend I fight it with? Aspirin?

  • Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain: You can wash for a week. It will not make the slightest bit of difference.

    Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain: What would you prescribe, doctor?

    Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain: Stop breathing! That is how the disease is transmitted.

  • Susan: [Very ill] I don't look too good, hunh?

    Herman Kaplan: Ah, liebschoen, even now you make me wish I was fifty again!

  • Nicole Dressler: Oh, what is it all about?

    Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain: I'd say a slight case of, uh...food poisoning.

    Nicole Dressler: I think either you're a lousy doctor or a lousy liar.

Extended Reading
  • Ayla 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    The plot is tense, and the irony of politics is even more confessional and pungent.

  • Elenora 2022-03-18 09:01:07

    I was impressed when I was young