Memorable Quotes from Ben Nealon
1 quoteDebate on Appearance and Identity
Graham Kent
Your mother must be turning in her grave. Look at you. Shame on you, Emily. Looking like a nautch girl.
Emily Kent
Really?! Do I look like a real nautch girl? Captain Hewson, you must know.
Graham Kent
Emily!
Captain Hewson
I am unfamiliar with the detail of the attire of dancing girls.
Captain Gordon
Miss Kent, the costume is perfect. Any nautch girl in India would blush with envy.
Emily Kent
So, you keep the company of nautch girls, Captain Gordon?
Captain Gordon
I pursue beauty wherever I can find it.
Graham Kent
Toast.
Lord Canning
The Queen!
[raises his glass of champagne]
Congregation
The Queen!
[raising their glasses; a servant accidentally spills champagne all over Emily]
Captain Gordon
Christ!
Servant
Oh! So sorry!
Captain Hewson
You black dog! What the hell do you think you're doing?!
[chases and drags the servant outside the building]
Captain Gordon
Hewson! Hewson! Hewson!
[follows suit; Hewson throws and brutally kicks the servant in the stomach]
Captain Hewson
You, lift him!
[to the guards]
Captain Gordon
Hewson, that's enough!
Captain Hewson
I'll teach you to touch a white woman, you black dog!
Servant
Forgive me, sir! It was an accident!
[pleading; Mangal steps in the whip's path]
Mangal Pandey
Enough. The black dog will die.
Captain Hewson
Miss Kent, on behalf of the...
[throws the whip in Mangal's face and prepares to head inside]
Emily Kent
It's not to me that you owe the apology, Captain Hewson.
Graham Kent
Come inside.
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