The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Sean Connery: Daniel Dravot
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Quotes
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Daniel Dravot : Peachy, I'm heartily ashamed for gettin' you killed instead of going home rich like you deserved to, on account of me bein' so bleedin' high and bloody mighty. Can you forgive me?
Peachy Carnehan : That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance.
Daniel Dravot : Everything's all right then.
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Daniel Dravot : Now listen to me you benighted muckers. We're going to teach you soldiering. The world's noblest profession. When we're done with you, you'll be able to slaughter your enemies like civilized men.
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Danny : You mean he's piled up a fortune of sixty cows out of her infidelities?
Billy Fish : And thirty-two goats.
Danny : She ain't a wife, she's a going concern!
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[speaking to Billy Fish in Kafiri]
Billy Fish : Ootah say take your pick. He have twenty three daughters.
Danny : Those are his daughters? Why the dirty old beggar!
Peachy Carnehan : Now, now Danny. Different countries, different ways. He's only being hospitable according to his lights. Billy, tell him one's as pretty as the next and we cannot choose.
[Billy translates; Ootah replies in Kafiri]
Billy Fish : Ootah say he also have thirty-two sons if you are liking boys.
Peachy Carnehan : [angrily] Tell him he makes my gorge rise; tell him!
Danny : Now Peachy, different countries, different ways. Tell Ootah we have vowed not to take a woman until all his enemies are vanquished.
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Daniel Dravot : [admiring Roxanne, while a worried Peachy looks on] Just looking, Peachy. There's such a thing as admiring beauty for its own sake.
Peachy Carnehan : [sharply] Being only human, one thing leads to another.
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District Commissioner : It would have been wiser if you'd both gone home at the end of your army service.
Peachy Carnehan : Home to what? A porters uniform outside a restaurant, attainin' tips from belching civilians for closing cab doors on them and their blowsy women?
Daniel Dravot : Not for us, thank you. Not after watching Afghans come howling down out of the hills and taking battlefield command when all the officers had copped it.
Peachy Carnehan : Well said, Brother Dravot.
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Daniel Dravot : You are going to become soldiers. A soldier does not think. He only obeys. Do you really think that if a soldier thought twice he'd give his life for queen and country? Not bloody likely.
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Peachy Carnehan : What's he saying, Billy?
Billy Fish : Danny's bleeding. They know! He says not god, not devil, but man!
Peachy Carnehan : [approaches Danny] They've twigged it, Danny. You've had it! The jig's up!
Daniel Dravot : [grabs arrow and raises hand in proclamation] I, Sikander -
Peachy Carnehan : [cuts off Danny] For God's sake!
Peachy Carnehan : [grabs Danny and leads him down the temple stairs] We've got to brass it out, Danny. Danny, brass it out!
Peachy Carnehan : [Danny, Peachy and Billy Fish try to escape the mob with heads held high] Bags of swank!
Daniel Dravot : [Danny, Peachy and Billy Fish on the run] We'll get your riflemen, Peachy, and we'll come back and slaughter the dogs! A drenching in their own blood we'll give them! Riflemen, prepare to advance!
Peachy Carnehan : [grabs rifles] Too many for that, Danny. Retire in sections!
Daniel Dravot : Retire? Retire be damned!
Peachy Carnehan : We've gotta make a run for it!
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Daniel Dravot , Peachy Carnehan : God's holy trousers!
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Billy Fish : I oft times tell Ootah about Englishmens. How they give names to dogs and take off hats to womans, and march into battle, left - right, left -right with rifles on their shoulders.
Daniel Dravot : Bringing enlightenment to the darker regions of the Earth.
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Daniel Dravot : The more tribes, the more they'll fight, and the better for us.
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Daniel Dravot : In any place where they fight, a man who knows how to drill men can always be a King. We shall go to those parts and say to any King we find - "D'you want to vanquish your foes?' and we will show him how to drill men; for that we know better than anything else. Then we will subvert that King and seize his Throne and establish a Dynasty.
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Daniel Dravot : You have our permission to bugger off!
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Danny : You mortals wait down there!
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Daniel Dravot : The slut bit me!
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Peachy Carnehan : And what, may I ask, did you think you were playin' at, charging the enemy single-handed?
Danny : I got carried away. Heat of the moment. The blood was up.
Peachy Carnehan : Acting like some green lieutenant hoping to be mentioned in dispatches. A man your age!
Danny : Sorry.
Peachy Carnehan : You oughta' be ashamed of yourself!
Danny : Sorry.
Peachy Carnehan : Supposing you got killed, eh? Supposing that? Where would I be at?
Danny : It won't happen again.
Peachy Carnehan : See that it don't.
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District Commissioner : I have your records before me. There's everything in them, from smuggling to swindling to receiving stolen goods to bare-faced blackmail.
Peachy Carnehan : Sir, I resent the accusation of blackmail. It is blackmail to obtain money by threats of publishing information *in* a newspaper. But what blackmail is there in accepting a small retainer for keeping it *out* of a newspaper?
District Commissioner : And how did you propose to keep it out?
Peachy Carnehan : By telling the editor what I know about his sister, and a certain government official in these parts.
Daniel Dravot : [Referring to Kipling, the journalist present] Let him put *that* in his paper, if he has need of news.
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Peachy Carnehan : [In Sikandergul: Marveling at what they see inside a room filled with treasures] These here make the jewels in the Tower of London look like... cheap family heirlooms.
Danny : [picking, out of a chest filled with jewels, a very large ruby] God's holy trousers. Look at the size of that ruby!
Peachy Carnehan : [produces another one, even greater in size] There's a bigger one. Why, Danny, we only have to fill our pockets and walk out of here to be millionaires. And all of it... all... would make us the two richest men in England.
Danny : The Empire.
Peachy Carnehan : The world.
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Daniel Dravot : I shall marry Roxana of Quack.
