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Jo McKenna: Do you live in France, Mr Bernard?
Louis Bernard: Sometimes.
Hank McKenna: Do you eat snails?
Louis Bernard: When I'm lucky enough to get them.
Hank McKenna: Well, if you ever get hungry, our garden back home is full of snails.
Louis Bernard: Thank you for the invitation.
Hank McKenna: That's alright. We tried everything to get rid of them. We never thought of a Frenchman.
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Jo McKenna: You know what I was just thinking? You know what is paying for this three days in Marrakech?
Dr. Ben McKenna: Yeah, me.
Jo McKenna: Mrs. Campbell's gallstones.
[both laughed]
Jo McKenna: And you know the purse I bought in Paris?
Dr. Ben McKenna: Yeah...
Jo McKenna: Bill Edward's tonsils.
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[to Drayton]
Ambassador: You have muddled everything from the start, taking that child with you from Marrakesh. Don't you realize that Americans dislike having their children stolen?
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[last lines]
Dr. Ben McKenna: Sorry we were gone so long, but we had to pick up Hank!
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Jo McKenna: So, what do you do?
Louis Bernard: I buy and sell.
Jo McKenna: I see. And what do you buy and sell?
Louis Bernard: Whatever gives the most profit.
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Louis Bernard: [dying] A man... a statesman... is to be killed... assassinated... in London. Soon... very soon. Tell them in London... Ambrose Chapel...
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Edward Drayton: Remember, you will only have time for just one shot. If you need another, the risk is yours.
Rien: I don't take risks.
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Jo McKenna: [after Hank accidentally pulls off a woman's veil on the bus] Why was he so angry? It was just an accident.
Louis Bernard: But, eh, the Muslim religion allows for few accidents.
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Ambassador: [to Drayton] You English intellectuals will be the death of us all.
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Dr. Ben McKenna: [after the inspector grills the Mckennas with questions based on his own assumptions] Boy! You not only ask the questions, you answer them too. Don't you?
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Lucy Drayton: It doesn't hurt to be kind, does it?
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Hank McKenna: In school they call it the Dark Continent. This is *twice* as bright as Indianapolis.
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Jo McKenna: This isn't really Africa. It's the French Morocco.
Hank McKenna: Well, it's Northern Africa.
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Louis Bernard: There are moments in life when we all need a little help.
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Hank McKenna: You talk Arab talk.
Louis Bernard: A few words.
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Hank McKenna: Daddy liberated Africa.
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Dr. Ben McKenna: How about one of those Arabian nights?
Jo McKenna: I'd love it.
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Dr. Ben McKenna: What does that mean?
Jo McKenna: It means that Mr Bernard is a very mysterious man.
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Dr. Ben McKenna: We just had a conversation. I've got nothing to hide.
Jo McKenna: But, I have a feeling that Mr Bernard has.
Dr. Ben McKenna: I know this is mysterious Morocco, but we're not gonna lose our head, are we?
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Dr. Ben McKenna: Oh, I know. I know what it is.
Jo McKenna: What?
Dr. Ben McKenna: Why, you're sore because this fella didn't ask *you* any questions. Huh?
Jo McKenna: Oh, hardy-har-har.
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Jo McKenna: [arriving at the hotel in Marrakesh] Well, this eases the pain.
Hank McKenna: What pain, Mommy?
Jo McKenna: It's just an expression, honey.
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Jo McKenna: [singing] Que será, será, What will be will be...
Hank McKenna: When I was just a little boy, I asked my mother What will I be... Will I be handsome? Will I be rich? Here's... what she said to me
Jo McKenna: Que será, será, Whatever will be will be, The future's not ours to see, Que será, será, What will be will be...
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Louis Bernard: Were you on the American stage, Mrs McKenna?
Jo McKenna: Yes, Mr Bernard, I was on the American stage and the London stage and the Paris stage.
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Edward Drayton: My wife tells me, Mrs McKenna appeared at the London Palladium a few years ago.
Lucy Drayton: Of course, we hardly ever see a show now. Edward is such an old stick-in-the-mud; so, I have to console myself with your records.
Edward Drayton: I must admit I love 'em. I'm not one for this terrible be-bop.
Jo McKenna: Thank you very much.
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Jo McKenna: Is it fattening?
Lucy Drayton: I imagine it must be.
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Dr. Ben McKenna: Boy, you not only ask the questions, you answer 'em too, don't you?
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Dr. Ben McKenna: I just - I - I - I don't know what's the right thing to do.
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Jo McKenna: Ben, are we about to have our monthly fight?
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Dr. Ben McKenna: I guess you're the kind of a gal they don't forget.
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Jan Peterson: [to Jo] I knew you were married, but, a doctor, how clever. Especially in such a psychosomatic business.
Cindy Fontaine: Jan, will you keep quiet.
Jan Peterson: Really?
Cindy Fontaine: You wouldn't know what psychosomatic means.
Jan Peterson: I do to. It means when your mind gets sick of your body, it does something to it..
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Cindy Fontaine: Ben dashed off to see him.
Helen Parnell: Then, Jo said it wasn't a man but a place and she dashed off.
Jan Peterson: Don't mention it again, darling, or I might dash off.
Cindy Fontaine: Oh! What a temptation.
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Helen Parnell: It isn't a he, it's an it! A building.
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Lucy Drayton: Look, it doesn't hurt to be kind, does it?
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Edward Drayton: Listen for the crash of the cymbals.
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Edward Drayton: No-one will know.
Rien: No-one except one.
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Rien: Will you have the money when I return?
Edward Drayton: [dressed as a clergyman] Don't you trust me?
Rien: What is your English proverb? "A wolf in sheep's clothing."
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Dr. Ben McKenna: I don't know how else to do it, honey.
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Self - Soloist: [singing] There came, A whispered terror, On the breeze, And the dark forest shook...
The Man Who Knew Too Much Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Language: English,Arabic,French Release date: June 1, 1956