The Train Quotes

Labiche Thank you.

Christine I don't want your thanks. If they'd caught me helping you, I would have been shot.

Labiche I know. I'm sorry.

Christine You think you can just run in and out of here and make trouble? I run a hotel, not a madhouse. Who's going to pay for the door? Who's going to pay for the lock? Do you think money grows on trees?

Labiche There's a war...

Christine You talk about the war. I talk about what it costs!

Labiche I'll be leaving in a few hours. You can go back to your good customers.

Christine They pay. That's what I'm in business for.

Labiche You should be paid. How much for the damage?

Christine One hundred francs.

Labiche How much for saving my life?

Miss Villard I knew of books being burned, other things... I was terrified that these would be lost.

Colonel von Waldheim A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

Miss Villard You won't convince me that you're cynical. I know what these paintings mean to you.

Colonel von Waldheim You are a perceptive woman.

Colonel von Waldheim We're removing the paintings. Pack them carefully.

Miss Villard Where are you taking them?!

Colonel von Waldheim To a safe place.

Miss Villard But no place is as safe as Paris!

Taglines One man's impossible mission - to save his country's priceless treasures!

Labiche He's just an old man. He didn't know what he was doing. Don't worry - I'll get your train through for you.

Papa Boule His train? His? It's my train! I know what I'm doing. Do you?

Paul Labiche Well, hurry it up. We're working on a locomotive, not a pocketwatch.

Col. Franz von Waldheim Labiche! Here's your prize, Labiche. Some of the greatest paintings in the world. Does it please you, Labiche? You feel a sense of excitement at just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck. You stopped me without knowing what you were doing or why. You are nothing, Labiche. A lump of flesh. The paintings are mine. They always will be. Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it. They will always belong to me, or a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did.

Taglines It carried their hopes, their nation's honour!

Paul Labiche You crazy bastard.

Miss Villard Those paintings are part of France. The Germans want to take them away. They've taken our land, our food, they live in our houses, and now they're trying to take our art. This beauty, this vision of life, born out of France, our special vision, our trust. We hold it in trust, don't you see, for everyone? This is our pride, what we create and hold for the world. There are worse things to risk your life for than that.