The Grand Illusion (1937)

Sylvain Itkine: Le lieutenant Demolder

Quotes 

• Lieutenant Maréchal : It's not a very common disease in high society. Eh, Boeldieu?

  Capt. de Boeldieu : Yes, but it's a vanishing privilege. Like so much else, it's become popularized. Cancer and gout are not working-class diseases, but they will be, believe me.

  Lieutenant Rosenthal : How about intellectuals?

  Le lieutenant Demolder : In our case, tuberculosis.

  Capt. de Boeldieu : Here's Mr. Pindar.

  Lieutenant Maréchal : And the middle-class?

  Lieutenant Rosenthal : Liver ulcers, they eat too much. We'd each die of our own class aliment, if war didn't make all germs equal.