Memorable Quotes from Sabu
5 quotesA Moment of Freedom and Threat
Genie
Free; after two thousand years. Two thousand years ago, King Solomon, Master of all the Dijinn, imprisoned me in that bottle. Ah-hahahahaha! For me, this is the first moment of my new freedom; but for you, hahahaha, for you, this is the last moment of your life.
[upon being freed]
Abu
My life?
Genie
Your life! In a moment, I shall lift my foot and crush you; insect, weevil, worm that you are!
Abu
But, genie, you can't do this! I fished you out of the sea, I opened your bottle, I let you out. You can't be so ungrateful!
Genie
Ungrateful? Slaves are not grateful, not for their freedom! Listen, inside that bottle for the first thousand years, I swore I'd enrich the one who freed me with all the riches of the Earth; but in the second thousand years, my imprisoned spirit turned to vengenance on all who lived and were free, and I swore I'd kill the one who freed me, to satisfy that hate!
Abu
Wait, wait! Before I die, can I- can I ask one question?
Genie
Ask!
Abu
How is it that you, big as a mountain, could ever get in that bottle, that I hold in my hand? You weren't ever in it really, were you?
Genie
Of course I was!
Abu
You weren't!
Genie
I was!
Abu
You were?
Genie
What? You dare doubt?!
Abu
If I'm going to die in a moment, I can dare anything; and I say it's impossible!
Genie
Impossible, you say?
Abu
I'll never believe it! Nothing can make me.
Genie
Nothing?
Abu
Nothing; unless I see it with my own eyes.
Genie
Then dog of an unbeliever, before you die, you shall see with me, nothing is impossible! You shall see, and believe!
[chuckles as he turns to mist and reenters the lamp. Abu quickly runs to reseal it]
Abu
Now, you great overblown belch!
Genie
Let me out; let me out!
[from inside the lamp]
Abu
Just because you were big, you thought you could bully.
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Handling Tigers: Skill vs. Bravado
Josef Pietz
I'm the one who does all the work, makes the Tigers behave. All Kelso does cracks the whip and takes the bows.
Ram Singh
I have seen many men handle Tigers. Kelso is good.
Josef Pietz
You've seen nobody handle Tigers. When I handle them they'll do things you wouldn't believe.
Ram Singh
You would not last 2 minutes with the Tigers, they can tell when a man is afraid.
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The Structure of the World Explained
Abu
Does the world have a roof?
Genie
Of course! Supported by seven pillars, and the seven pillars are set on the shoulders of a genie whose strength is beyond thought, and the genie stands on an eagle, and the eagle on a bull, and the bull on a fish, and the fish swims in the sea of eternity.
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Mowgli Addresses the Jungle's Predators
Mowgli
Quiet, you grinning black shadow! Quiet, grey brother. This is not our kill.
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Mowgli's Connection to the Jungle
Mowgli
I am of the jungle. Their lair is my lair. Their trail is my trail. Their fight is my fight.
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