Flamingo Road (1949)

Sydney Greenstreet: Sheriff Titus Semple

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• Sheriff Titus Semple : Now me, I never forget anything.

  Lane Bellamy : You know sheriff; we had an elephant in our carnival with a memory like that. He went after a keeper that he'd held a grudge against for almost 15 years. Had to be shot. You just wouldn't believe how much trouble it is to dispose of a dead elephant.

• Sheriff Titus Semple : Ya can't go wrong in this town if you say Yep to the right people and Nope to the rest.

• Sheriff Titus Semple : I've never been able to make up my mind if you're awful smart, or awful stupid.

• Lane Bellamy : I'm not a carnival girl anymore!

  Sheriff Titus Semple : Sure been actin' like it with young Carlisle.

• Sheriff Titus Semple : A man going into the legislature should have a heart of gold and a respectable wife.

• Sheriff Titus Semple : The only way to tell what a mule and a man can do, is to give him a field and a plow.

• Sheriff Titus Semple : I plucked a goose here and there, but nobody could find a feather.