Ralph Richardson Quotes

Supreme Being Well I am the Supreme Being. I'm not entirely dim.

Valerian Twice each year, at the ] and ] Equinox, the king selects a new victim. Virgins.

Ulrich A lottery! Barbaric. And in return, this ]... it leaves your villages and crops unburned. Your king has made a pact with a monster!

Nigel Hartley Not a very courageous person, our foreign friend.

Kaney You think he's run away? Absurd! I'd like to see you riding your bicycle with a Circassian slave, lovely as sin, across the handlebars!

Supreme Being Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

Valerian Are you afraid of dragons?

Ulrich No. In fact, if it weren't for sorcerers, there wouldn't be any dragons. Once, the ] were dotted with them. Magnificent horned backs, leathern wings … soaring … and their hot-breathed wind. Oh, I know this creature of yours …Vermithrax Pejorative. Look at these scales, these ridges. When a dragon gets this ], it knows nothing but ], constant pain. It grows decrepit … crippled … ]. Spiteful!

Paul I must be off.

Jim You've been off for years.

Nigel Hartley I happened to be staying in the neighborhood, and hearing of your master's illness I took the liberty of calling. How is he tonight?

Laing He'll never see the morning.

Nigel Hartley He has not asked for anyone of my cloth?

Laing Nor will he. He's set in his ways, and they are the ways of the heathen.

Nigel Hartley I know he won't see the rector, but though I'm a comparative stranger, I don't like to leave a man to die like that.

Laing He'll die in his own fashion as he has lived.

Nigel Hartley Still, sometimes at the end...

Laing Not him! He's stubborn and unbending and will be so at the throne itself!

Supreme Being I should do something very extroverted and vengeful to you. Honestly, I'm too tired. So, I think I'll transfer you to the undergrowth department, brackens, small shrubs, that sort of thing... with a 19% cut in salary, backdated to the beginning of time.

Randall Oh, thank you, sir.

Supreme Being Yes, well, I am the nice one.

Nigel Hartley I'm sorry there should be this sort of atmosphere. After all, we're only ships that pass in the night.

Broughton Hmmm. Do you want a drink, or will you pass now?

Aga Ben Dragore Six cups? That's just... just four too many. Eh?

Kaney Tell me about Egypt. Have you ever seen a shiek?

Aga Ben Dragore I am one!

Kaney What? Thank you. Then how should I address you? Oh - I'm cutting sandwiches for a sheikh! I don't feel quite well.

Aga Ben Dragore Oh, don't be alarmed. We're not as uncivilised as people think.

Kaney Oh, don't say that! Do you ride a white stallion?

Aga Ben Dragore Sometimes.

Kaney Down the path of the moon! The noble animal plunging and frothing at the nostrils till it founders at your feet, faithful unto death!

Supreme Being They'll think I've lost control again and put it all down to evolution.