The Magus (1968)

Michael Caine: Nicholas Urfe

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Quotes 

• [Nicholas hands a book to Conchis] 

  Nicholas Urfe : I came to return this.

  Maurice Conchis : You came here to meet me. Please, life is short. My name is Conchis.

  Nicholas Urfe : My name is Urfe. From the school. I find life long.

• Nicholas Urfe : I've missed you.

  Anne : Careful. You'll be in love next.

  Nicholas Urfe : I never use four-letter words.

• Nicholas Urfe : This thing, it's like being halfway through a book. You can't just throw it in the dustbin.

  Anne : So you throw me instead?

  Nicholas Urfe : I'm trying to be honest.

  Anne : Honest? It's just like in London. You haven't changed. I'll always be that French girl who slept around. A human boomerang. Throw her away and she'll always come back for another week of duty-free sex.

  Nicholas Urfe : That's below the belt!

  Anne : Your natural territory.

• Anne : You're running away. That's all it is.

  Nicholas Urfe : Look, in this country I am the typical nowhere man - belonging nowhere, going nowhere and wanted nowhere.

  Anne : Oh, Nicko, this is life, not an existentialist novel.

• Meli : [splashed by boy in pool]  Ah, I think when I marry I shall pray for daughters. And You?

  Nicholas Urfe : I'll just pray for myself.

• Nicholas Urfe : You know what's wrong with marriage, Meli? It kills the fun in life.

  [bites affair liaison apple] 

  Nicholas Urfe : It's the timid little people who can't gamble; who always want to know where they are. It's for mice, Meli, not for men.

• Maurice Conchis : [after describing Nazi atrocity]  What would you have done?

  Nicholas Urfe : God Knows.

  Maurice Conchis : God never has to choose. You and I do.