- Maj. Weldon Penderton: I'm sorry, Leonora. It's just all this clutter is...
- Leonora: What's the matter with clutter? I like it.
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: I'd rather live without it. Bare floors. Plain white walls. No window curtains. Nothing but essentials.
- Leonora: If that's the way you feel about it, why don't you resign your commission and start all over again as an enlisted man?
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: Of course you're laughing at it, but there's much to be said for the life of men among men... with no... luxuries, no ornamentation. Utter simplicity. It's rough and it's coarse, perhaps, but it's also clean - it's clean as a rifle. There's no speck of dust inside or out... and it's immaculate in its hard young fitness... its chivalry. They're seldom out of one another's sight. They eat, and they train, and they shower, and they play jokes... and go to the brothel together. They sleep side by side. The barracks room offers many a lesson in courtesy and how not to give offense. They guard the next man's privacy as though it was their own. And the friendships, my lord. There are friendships formed that are stronger than... stronger than the fear of death. And - they're never lonely. They're never lonely. And sometimes I envy them... well, good night.
- [about Lt. Colonel Langdon's wife]
- Leonora: Cutting off her nipples with a pair of garden shears. You call that normal? My God! Garden shears!
- Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: No, but she's not, you know - Doctor says she's neurotic.
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: Now, a man does not flee because... um... he's fighting in an unjust cause. He does not attack because his cause is just. He flees 'cause he's the weaker. And he conquers 'cause he's the stronger. Or more to the point because his leaders made him feel stronger. Rommel... Patton, Marshall, MacArthur. They - they had it. How did they - uh... how did they make their troops believe they were stronger? Leadership is intangible... hard to measure, difficult to describe. Leadership must include a measure of inherent ability to control... uh... and direct self-confidence... based on initiative, loyalty to superiors, and a sense of pride. Pride. It's far easier to recognize a leader, than to define leadership in clear and in universally understood terms. Now... is leadership - uh... learned? Is it taught? Is a man born with it? How did it come to Patton?... Uh, class dismissed.
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: You look like a slattern goin' around the house this way. The Langdons are coming to dinner, I suppose you're gonna sit down at the table like that.
- Leonora: Sure. Why not, prissy?
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: You disgust me.
- [Leonora turns around, stares at Weldon, stands up, unbuttons her shirt, undoes her bra, throws her bra at his face, takes her pants off, walks out of the room and up the stairs, naked]
- Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: [after Alison Langdon's houseboy Anacleto falls down the stairs] I wish you'd broken your damn neck.
- Leonora: Will somebody, please, tell me why Captain Weincheck is unpopular?
- Alison Langdon: Is it because he plays the violin, reads Proust?
- Leonora: Oh, do you remember that tea he gave? Classical records and cat hairs. And before God, tea. Only tea!
- Alison Langdon: Captain Weincheck is a gentleman.
- Alison Langdon: [to Morris] I'm going to get a divorce. And as I have no money I would appreciate your lending me the sum of $500. I will pay you back at five percent interest with Anacleto and Captain Weincheck as guarantors. You need not feel any further responsibility toward me. Anacleto and I will go into some business together or buy a prawn boat, maybe. And now will you, please, help him bring my trunk up from the cellar? We have to pack and be out of here early tomorrow morning.
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: It is far easier to recognise a leader, than to define leadership in clear and universally understood terms.
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: Any fulfillment obtained at the expense of normality is wrong and should not be allowed to bring happiness. In short, it's, uh, it's better because it's, uh, morally honorable for the square peg to keep scrapin' about in a round hole rather than to discover and use the unorthodox one that would fit it.
- Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: Well, yeah, that's, that's right, Weldon.
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: I'm surprised at you, Morris. Sittin' down playing cards with a woman expecting her not to cheat you.
- Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: She hasn't tried to do it again.
- Leonora: How could she? What she did is something a lady can only do once now, isn't it?
- Leonora: So these two little queers went into this bar and this great big bald barman was looking at them for a long time. Finally he said, "Are you two sisters?" And they said, "Hell no! We're not even Catholic."
- Leonora: Do you think she has any idea about us?
- Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: No, no.
- Leonora: Well, I hope not. I like Alison.
- Anacleto: Look. A peacock. A sort of ghastly green - with one immense golden eye. And in it - these reflections of something tiny and - tiny and...
- Alison Langdon: Grotesque.
- Anacleto: Exactly.
- Anacleto: Madam Alison, do you yourself really believe that Mr. Sergei Rachmaninoff knows that a chair is something to be sat on and that a clock shows one the time? And if I should take off my shoe and hold it up to his face and say, "What is this, Mr. Sergei Rachmaninoff?" then he would answer like anyone else, "Why, Anacleto, that is a shoe." I myself find it hard to realize.
- Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: It is a pretty awful thing to see a grownup man dancin' around on his toes to some kind of silly music and paintin' all kind of funny-lookin' pictures with watercolors.
- Pvt. L.G. Williams: In a TV interview Forster said Walter Huston told him they would have a stunt double do the nude riding scene. Forster told him he could do it. Imitating Huston's voice, Forster said Huston asked, "You could do that Bobby?" And so he did.
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: Private, the whole idea was in the big oak tree. Instructions were to clear the ground just to the oak tree. The way the branches swept down made a background shutting off the rest of the woodland was the whole point. Now its all ruined.
- Pvt. L.G. Williams: What would the major like me to do?
- Leonora: What the Major would like is you to pick up the branches and nail them back on again.
- Leonora: Firebird likes him.
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: Firebird's a horse.
- Leonora: Firebird is a stallion.
- Leonora: Weldon, that's Private Williams, isn't it?
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: It certainly is.
- Leonora: Bareback to bare-ass.
- [laughs]
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: It's outrageous. You go on ahead, I'll attend to him.
- Leonora: Oh, what, spoil his fun?
- Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: Why don't you come ridin' with us tomorrow?
- Maj. Weldon Penderton: Well, we'll see.
- Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: Do you good. Shake up your liver.
- Leonora: This uncle of mine had this, uh, cabin up in the mountains and my brothers and I used to go up there all the time to hunt. About six of us would go out in the afternoon with our dogs. Oh, really more the evening. My God, it would be cold. A little colored boy, you know, would be coming running behind with a big jug of liquor on his back. Sometimes we'd be out in the mountains all night long huntin' raccoon. Oh, I just can't tell you what it was like.
- Leonora: Why don't you give them to Weincheck, all these records? He'd be happy to have 'em.
- Lt. Col. Morris Langdon: Oh, I think I'll keep 'em over in my room. I might wanna play 'em sometime.
- Leonora: Oh, now, Morris, you know you *hate* classical records. Don't talk like that. It's - well, it's morbid!
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By what name was Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) officially released in India in English?
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