Columbo (TV Series)
Grand Deceptions (1989)
Stephen Elliott: General Padget
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Quotes
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Colonel Frank Brailie : The sexual life of the Camel...
General Padget : ...is stranger than anyone thinks,
Colonel Frank Brailie : He lies in the shade of the Pyramids...
General Padget : ...and tries to make love to the Sphinx,
Colonel Frank Brailie : But the Sphinx is only a statue...
General Padget : ...beset by the sands of the Nile,
Colonel Frank Brailie : Which accounts for the humps on the Camel...
General Padget : ...and the Sphinx's inscrutable smile.
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General Padget : Someone promises once and doesn't deliver, well, that's a busy man. Promises twice, he's not very efficient. Promises three times, I know when I'm being diddled. But here we are, after all. I take it all back.
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General Padget : To Columbo "I like you Lieutenant you know things."
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Lieutenant Columbo : The fatal flaw, sir. I always thought it was shoes.
General Padget : Excuse me?
Lieutenant Columbo : There was a shoe factory in Gettysburg. If General Lee hadn't needed shoes for his men, there may never have been a Battle of Gettysburg.
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General Padget : When you deal with other people's discretion, that leaves a hole for the devil to pop up.