And Then There Were None (1945)

Barry Fitzgerald: Judge Francis J. Quincannon

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• Philip Lombard : Hello puss, looking for a mouse? So are we.

  Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : What I'd like to know is if we're the cat, or the mouse.

• Dr. Edward G. Armstrong : We all build islands of imagination. Represents escape. Half of my patients are sick because they're trying to escape reality.

  Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Well, and what's your answer?

  Dr. Edward G. Armstrong : Oh, I tell them fairytales. I build them islands of imagined security.

  Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Don't you believe in medicine, Doctor?

  Dr. Edward G. Armstrong : Do you believe in justice, Judge?

• Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : We tell the story in Ireland about the two Englishmen who were cast away on a desert island for three years and never spoke to each other, because they hadn't been introduced.

• Dr. Edward G. Armstrong : Maybe we've been wrong, built up a nightmare out of imagination.

  Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Two people dead isn't imagination.

• Judge Francis J. Quincannon : So you see, the whole thing has been as inevitable as in a nursery rhyme. When the boat arrives from the mainland, there will be ten dead bodies, and a riddle no one can solve on Indian Island.

• Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Mr. Owen could only come to the island in one way. It's perfectly clear. Mr. Owen is one of us.

• Philip Lombard : Mr. Owen's hand is plain to see.

  Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : Yes, but where the devil is Mr. Owen himself?

• Judge Francis J. Quincannon : Don't forget the old proverb, Doctor. Never trust a man who doesn't drink.

  Detective William Henry Blore : Sounds like the Bible. Great book.

• Judge Francis J. Quinncannon : The place for nursery rhymes is in the nursery.