The Bridge on the River Kwai Quotes
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“What have I done?”
“Alec Guinness - Col.Nicloson”
“Ann Sears - Nurse at Siamese hospital”
“Is this your soldier's code? Murdering unarmed men?”
“Jack Hawkins - Maj. Warden”
“James Donald - Maj. Clipton”
“Geoffrey Horne - Lt. Joyce”
“Sessue Hayakawa - Col. Saito”
“William Holden - Cmdr. Shears”
“[watching the British prisoners walk into the camp] We're going to be a busy pair of gravediggers.”
“Heihachiro Okawa - Capt. Kanematsu”
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“Keiichiro Katsumoto - Lt. Miura
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“I hate the British! You are defeated, but you have no shame. You are stubborn, but have no pride. You endure, but you have no courage. I hate the British!”
“The fact is, what we're doing could be construed as, forgive me sir, collaboration with the enemy. Perhaps even as treasonable activity...Must we work so well? Must we build them a better bridge than they could have built for themselves?”
“Mostly Aussies, some Lime, some British, Indians, Burmese, Siamese...They died, of malaria, dysentery, beriberi, gangrene. Other causes of death: famine, overwork, bullet wounds, snake bites, Saito. And then there were some who just got tired of living.”
“[after Nicholson objects to the above speech by trying to point out what the Geneva Convention specifies] You speak to me of code? What code?! The Coward's Code! What do you know of the Soldier's Code? Of Bushido? Nothing! You are unworthy of command!”
“[To Clipton, after Clipton questions the bridge's construction] One day the war will be over. And I hope that the people that use this bridge in years to come will remember how it was built and who built it. Not a gang of slaves, but soldiers, British soldiers, Clipton, even in captivity.”