Memorable quotes for
The Long Good Friday (1980) More at IMDbPro »

Harold: I'll have his carcass dripping blood by midnight.
Share this quote

Harold: The Mafia? I've shit 'em.
Share this quote

Harold: What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world: culture, sophistication, genius. A little bit more than an 'ot dog, know what I mean?
Share this quote

Harold: It's Good Friday. Have a Bloody Mary.
Share this quote

Harold: You don't crucify people! Not on Good Friday!
Share this quote

Harold: The Yanks love snobbery. They really feel they've arrived in England if the upper class treats 'em like shit.
Share this quote

Pool Attendant: They kept it all incognito. They're gonna collect the body in an ice cream van.
Harold: There's a lot of dignity in that, isn't there? Going out like a raspberry ripple.
Share this quote

Casino Manager: It was a good night. Nothing unusual.
Harold: "Nothing unusual," he says! Eric's been blown to smithereens, Colin's been carved up, and I've got a bomb in me casino, and you say nothing unusual?
Share this quote

Erroll: Well, he don't like Colin. I mean, queers get right up his hooter, you know?
Harold: After what happened this morning, you'd have to find his hooter to get up it.
Erroll: Is something up with him, then?
Harold: Well, let's put it this way. Apart from his asshole being about fifty yards away from his brains, and the choirboys playing "'unt the thimble" with the rest of him, he ain't too happy.
Share this quote

Harold: What the hell was Colin doing with a Lime'ouse minicab driver in Belfast?
Jeff: Colin can't drive.
Harold: Oh, that makes sense. Second question: Belfast? What was he doing there? I know Colin fancies soldiers, but that's taking his buggery a bit far, isn't it?
Share this quote

Harold: Alan found him dying. He'd been nailed to the floor.
Jeff: When was this, then?
Harold: Well, it must've been just after you saw him and just before Alan saw him. Otherwise, you'd have noticed, wouldn't you? I mean, a geezer nailed to the floor. A man of your education would definitely have spotted that, wouldn't he?
Share this quote

Harold: I'm glad I found out in time just what a partnership with a pair of wankers like you would've been. A sleeping partner's one thing, but you're in a fucking coma! No wonder you got an energy crisis your side of the water!
Share this quote

Harold: Who's having a go at me? Can you think of anyone who might have an old score to settle or something?
Razors: Who's big enough to take you on?
Harold: Well, there were a few.
Razors: Like who?
Harold: Yeah, they're all dead.
Share this quote

Harold: No one's heard nothing? That just ain't natural. It's like one of them silent, deadly farts. No clue, and then pow, you go cross-eyed.
Share this quote

Harold: Remember, scare the shit out of them, but don't damage them. I want 'em conscious and talkative. And lads, try and be discreet, eh?
Share this quote

Harold: Move to the car, Billy, or I'll blow your spine off.
Billy: That's not a shooter, is it, Harold?
Harold: Oh don't be silly, Billy. Would I come hunting for you with me fingers?
Share this quote

Harold: Don't you ever tell me what I can or can't do! Bent law can be tolerated for as long as they're lubricating, but you have become definitely parched. If I was you, I'd run for cover and close the hatch, 'cause you're gonna wind up on one of those meat hooks, my son.
Share this quote

Harold: I'm setting up the biggest deal in Europe with the hardest organization since Hitler stuck as swastika on his jockstrap.
Share this quote

Harold: It's my manor!
Parky: Not anymore Harold, they're taking it away from you.
Share this quote

Harold: Tell 'em what your name is.
Razors: Razors
Harold: Or as the youth of today call him, the human spirograph.
Share this quote

Harold: I want the name of your top grass.
Parky: He trusts me Harold, I've known him a long time.
Harold: Then you should remember his name.
Share this quote

Charlie: This is like a bad night in Vietnam.
Share this quote

Harold: Don't you ever worry about your liver?
Jeff: Nah, we're just good friends.
Share this quote

[in the lift on the way to Harold and Victoria's penthouse]
Jeff: I wanna lick every inch of you...
[the lift stops, the bell pings]
Victoria: Saved by the bell. Goodnight.
Share this quote

[Harold's lads have rounded up all the local villains who are now hanging upside down from meat hooks in the abattoir]
Harold: For more than ten years there's been peace - everyone to his own patch. We've all had it sweet. I've done every single one of you favours in the past - I've put money in all your pockets. I've treated you well, even when you was out of order, right? Well now there's been an eruption. It's like fuckin' Belfast on a bad night. One of my closest friends is lyin' out there in the freezer. And believe me, all of you, nobody goes home until I find out who done it, and why.
Share this quote

[first lines]
Colin: Two large Bushmills, please, darlin'.
Share this quote

[last lines]
Harold: 'Ere, 'old up, where's Victoria?
Share this quote

Harold: [to Erroll, the informant, after cutting him] The only decent grass is the grass that grasses to me.
Share this quote

Harold: [tosses used syringe to prostitute in Errol's bed] Here, give yourself another prick.
Share this quote

Harold: [glancing around at Brixton slum, where he came from] These people deserve more than dogshit on the doorstep.
Share this quote

Harold: I want verbals with you...
Share this quote

Victoria: [to Harold] Don't treat me like one of your thugs!
Share this quote

Victoria: I hate lifts. It gets very claustrophobic in here with a lot of people.
Jeff: Depends on the people.
Share this quote

Harold: Right... it's up to you. Frostbite or verbals...
Share this quote