- Albert Horn, the tailor: [to Lucien] It's very strange. Somehow I can't bring myself to completely despise you.
- Prisoner: So you're working for the Germans? A young Frenchman like you. Aren't you ashamed?
- Lucien Lacombe: I don't like people talking down to me.
- Lucien Lacombe: I want to join the underground.
- Peyssac: What's that got to do with me?
- Lucien Lacombe: You're the one who decides. Joseph told me so.
- Peyssac: You're too young. And we have enough like you. The underground isn't like poaching. It's like the army.
- Jean-Bernard: [to Lucien] Some Jewish girls are so very beautiful. They make other women look like old nags. I had a Jewish fiancée once. Incredibly stacked and very rich.
- Betty Beaulieu: [Betty walks in from another room] What are you telling him?
- Jean-Bernard: Nothing, my dear. Nothing.
- Faure: Nationality?
- Albert Horn, the tailor: French.
- Faure: Didn't anyone ever tell you yids can't be French?
- Albert Horn, the tailor: On occasion.
- Faure: To me a Jew is like a rat. No more, no less.
- Albert Horn, the tailor: Really?
- Faure: They breed like crazy. There's more and more of 'em.
- Betty Beaulieu: Do you know I'm in the movies?
- Lucien Lacombe: Really?
- Betty Beaulieu: Yes. Last year I had a good part in "Night Raid", with Yvon Nevers.
- Lucien Lacombe: People could see you in the movies?
- Betty Beaulieu: In Paris you could. In this hole they only show old films!
- Faure: Like I thought: The Americans aren't soldiers. Seems they put their Negroes in the front lines.
- Jean-Bernard: You understand English, Stéphane?
- Faure: No. Why should I? I'm not a turncoat. Know what I think of the English? They make me sick.
- Betty Beaulieu: They're better looking than the French. I love Leslie Howard.
- Tonin: [to Dr. Vaugeois] Now, what can you tell us about Commandant Méry?
- Faure: A man like you working with terrorists - I don't get it. You want bolshevism in France?
- Dr. Vaugeois: I'm a Gaullist.
- Faure: De Gaulle's surrounded by Jews and commies. You want names? Does Schumann sound French to you?
- Tonin: [to Faure] Save the politics for later.
- [to Dr. Vaugeois]
- Tonin: Come on, Doctor. Tell us about Commandant Méry? Come on, start talking.
- France Horn: Aren't you going to introduce me?
- Albert Horn, the tailor: My daughter, France.
- Lucien Lacombe: Lacombe, Lucien.
- Albert Horn, the tailor: Sad music, isn't it? It's as if my whole life's been lived in time to that music.
- Marie: Filthy Jew! They all have syphilis! You hear me? She'll give it to you! Let me go! I want to talk to the filthy bitch! She has no right! Let me go! Let me go! Let me go!
- Lucien Lacombe: What are those other people doing in our house?
- mére de Lucien: They're helping Monsieur Laborit. I let them have the house.
- Lucien Lacombe: Things have changed around here.
- mére de Lucien: The work has to be done. Your father's a prisoner and Joseph's gone.
- Lucien Lacombe: Really?
- M. Laborit: Joined the underground, the bum!