The Talented Mr. Ripley Quotes
"He was bored, God-damned bloody bored, bored, bored!"
"I'll do everything I can to make Dickie come back."
"I wasn't stealing money from anybody. Before he went to Europe, he thought, he'd destroy the cheques."
"I'm sorry to say I haven't, sir, not that one."
"It's a wonder he had emerged from such treatment as well as he had."
"He remembered deciding then that the world was full of Simon Legrees."
"He had always thought he had the world's dullest face."
"I'm waiting for the darned artichokes to get done. You know that front hole. It'll barely make anything come to a boil."
"One of the reasons I fled America," Dickie said. "Those things are a waste of money in a country with so many servants."
"I won't ever set the world on fire as a painter," Dickie said, "but I get a great deal of pleasure out of it."
"Marge consoles herself for the loss of Eduardo by embracing his religion."
"Are you sure the guy you were talking to wasn't under the influence of dope himself?"
"It's very refreshing," Tom said pleasantly. "Here's a letter for you."
"You go up. I'm not in the mood right now. Got to save my strength for Cortina."
"It's the way you acted," Tom said. "You didn't have to act that way. The fellow wasn't doing you any harm."
"But Paris—Genoa can't compare with Paris, can it?"
"He loved to pack, and he took a long time about it, laying Dickie's clothes affectionately into suitcases."
"The idea of going to bed hungry tonight felt pure and chastening, as he imagined a wafer tasted in church."
"Sometimes, if the song on the radio was one that Tom liked, he merely danced by himself."
"He was himself—and yet not himself. He felt blameless and free."
"Every moment to Tom was a pleasure, alone in his room or walking the streets of Rome."
"It was impossible ever to be lonely or bored, so long as he was Dickie Greenleaf."
"The main thing about impersonation, Tom thought, was to maintain the mood and temperament of the person one was impersonating."
"He had even produced a painting in Dickie's manner."
"Tom thought that Fausto must have come and gone through Rome, though Marge's last letters had not mentioned him."
"I had the feeling he would try to do something violent—perhaps to himself."
"If I had missed the cheque, I should of course have informed you at once."
"I saw him briefly in Rome, just before he went to Sicily."
"I am as much interested as you in finding my friend."
"I do not think he went to a ski party that Freddie Miles had invited him to."
"It was getting a little better now, but when Mr Greenleaf arrived, the papers were at their worst."
"Dickie hasn't been back there since November."
"Maybe he's sitting in Tangiers or somewhere living the life of Riley and waiting for all this to blow over."
"Well, it's damned inconsiderate of him if he is!"
"I certainly didn't mean to alarm anybody when I said what I did about his depression."
"I understand. No, I think you were right to tell us. I just don't think it's true."
"Then why don't the so-and-so's get down to the business of finding out who really did kill him? And also where Dickie is?"
"He began asking her sensible, practical questions about the opinions of the Rome police."
"No. The doctors can't say exactly. And it seems Dickie didn't have an alibi, of course, because he was undoubtedly alone."
"They don't actually believe Dickie killed him, do they?"
"I'd say it looked bad for Freddie. Maybe Dickie wasn't angry at all."
"It might start a new investigation of the signatures, on the will and also the remittances."
"The very chanciness of trying for all of Dickie's money, the peril of it, was irresistible to him."
"He was so bored after the dreary, eventless weeks in Venice."
"He had only two thousand dollars in his own name, transferred from Dickie's bank account."
"He decided in Venice to make his voyage to Greece an heroic one."
"I can't see why you don't see that this is a bad sign!"
"I'm terribly sorry I didn't mention it sooner."
"The irony of Anna's and Ugo's commiseration with him, and also of the telephone calls from his friends, seemed more than he could bear."
"He felt possessed of a preternatural strength and fearlessness."
"Was he going to see policemen waiting for him on every pier that he ever approached?"