Memorable quotes for
"The Prisoner" (1967) More at IMDbPro »

Number 6: I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own. I resign.

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[Number 2 is describing the Village]
Number Two: What in fact has been created? An international community. A perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they'll see that this is the pattern for the future.
Number 6: The whole world as the Village?
Number Two: That is my dream. What's yours?
Number 6: To be the first man on the moon.

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Number Two: [about The Prisoner] He's an individual, and they're always trying.

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[over the opening of each episode - Number 2 played by various actors]
Number 6: Where am I?
Number 2: In the Village.
Number 6: What do you want?
Number 2: We want information.
Number 6: Whose side are you on?
Number 2: That would be telling. We want information... information... information.
Number 6: You won't get it.
Number 2: By hook or by crook, we will.
Number 6: Who are you?
Number 2: The new Number 2.
Number 6: Who is Number 1?
Number 2: You are Number 6.
Number 6: I am not a number, I am a free man.

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Number 6: I am not a number. I am a person.

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Number 6: Everybody votes for a dictator.

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The Double: The trouble with science is that it can be perverted.

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The Professor's Wife: One learns only when the mind wants to and not at set times.

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Labour Exchange Manager: Good, you are honest. That is of use. Honesty attracts confidence, and confidence is our core of our business. See how honest I am being with you?

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Number 6: Bad habit of mine, playing with lighters. I'll probably start a fire one day.

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The Professor's Wife: Construction arises out of the ashes of destruction.

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Madame Engadine: Men always evade questions. All my husbands did.

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Number 6: If I knew where I was sailing from I could calculate where I was sailing to.

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Ex-Admiral: We're all pawns.

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Number 6: Last week, Number 14 was an old lady in a wheelchair. You're new here, and you're one of them.

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Number 6: I also have a problem. I'm not sure which side runs this Village.

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Villager: [first time line is spoken] Be seeing you.

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Taxi Driver: It's very cosmopolitan. You never know who you'll meet next.

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Number 2: [shouting] Why, why, why did you resign?

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Number 6: Be seeing you.

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Number 6: Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment, and will die here like rotten cabbages.

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Number 48: Thanks for the trip, dad.

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Woman: [Tearfully] How can you doubt me?
Number 6: It's easy, and I'm waterproof; a little drizzle won't wash away my doubt.

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Number 2: By the time we finish with him, he won't know whether he's Number 6 or the cube root of infinity.

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Number Two: You shouldn't have interfered, No.6. You'll pay for this.
Number 6: No. You will.

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Number 6: I'm going to escape, come back, wipe this place off the face of the Earth, obliterate it and you with it

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Retiring Number 2: I can think of better ways to die.
Number 6: And better causes to die for.

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Observer: You're a wicked man.
Number 6: Wicked?
Observer: You have no values.
Number 6: Different values!
Observer: You won't be helped.
Number 6: Destroyed!
Observer: You want to spoil things.
Number 6: I won't be a goldfish in a bowl!

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Observer: [discussing The Village] This place has been going for a long time.
Number 6: Since the war? Before the war? WHICH... WAR?

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Maid: [the Prisoner's costume for a fancy dress ball - picked by others - is delivered] What is it?
Number 6: My own suit, specially delivered for the occasion.
Maid: What does that mean?
Number 6: That I am still... myself.

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Observer: Questions are a burden to others. Answers are prison for oneself.

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[Postman delivers a letter]
Postman: Special delivery. Sign your number here, Number Six.

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Number 6: [referring to the chess game] Why do you use people?
Chessmaster: Some psychiatrists say it satisfies the desire for power. 'the only opportunity one gets here.
Number 6: That depends what side you're on.
Chessmaster: [quickly] I'm on my side.
Number 6: [quickly] Aren't we all.
Chessmaster: You must be new here. In time, most of us join the enemy - against ourselves.

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Number Two: I'm the boss.
Number 6: No. One is the boss.

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