16 quotes
Advice on Eating Before Action
Zorro
I give you a safe rule, good landlady. Never do anything on an empty stomach - but eat!
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Expressions of Devotion and Despair
Zorro
If this could be - The high Sierras I would level to your feet - The wild waves on Capistrano's shore should pay you homage - I'd make the desert a million roses yield - - to die in shame before your beauty- If this could be!
[passionately wooing Lolita]
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A Kiss Given Freely Amidst Danger
Lolita Pulido
I - give you - freely - the kiss he would have taken. I fear for your safety, señor.
[kisses Zorro]
Zorro
Fear not - their wits are as slow as their blades. The weapons you use pierce deep, señorita.
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A Humorous Exchange Between Zorro's Opponents
Sgt. Pedro Gonzales
We seek the vulture, Zorro!
Don Diego Vega
You're too fat, Gonzales. Poison the mountain tops and set your traps in the clouds - perhaps you'll have better luck.
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A Conversation About Swordsmanship and Admiration
Lolita Pulido
Your swordsmanship? Where did you learn the blade?
Zorro
In Spain, señorita, where there are no eyes like yours.
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Trust and Love in Relationships
Zorro
You trust me, Señorita?
Lolita Pulido
To love is to trust, señor.
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A Metaphor of Desire and Caution
Zorro
Once, in a garden I saw a beautiful rose - I sought to pluck it - quickly. It stung me - Then - - slowly - - cautiously - I reached for it - - and the rose was mine!
Lolita Pulido
Indeed! Then I'm but another rose?
Zorro
An, no señorita. You are too wonderful! I dare not even hope.
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Critique of Indifference and Injustice
Zorro
You idlers! You wasters! You fashion-plates! You sit and sip your wine while the naked back of an unprotesting soldier of Christ is lashed with the whip!
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The Rise of the Oppressed Champion
Title Card
Oppression - by its very nature - creates the power that crushes it. A champion arises - a champion of the oppressed - whether it be a Cromwell or someone unrecorded, he will be there. He is born.
Title Card
Out of the mystery of the unknown - appeared a masked rider who rode up and down the great highway..
Soldier
This Zorro comes upon you like a graveyard ghost and like a ghost he disappears.
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Musical Connections Between Characters in Zorro
Zorro
I have a servant - a wonder at the guitar. Tonight I shall order him to come out and play beneath your window.
Lolita Pulido
I have a maid - passionately fond of music!
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A Call to Resist Oppression in California
Zorro
The heaven-kissed hills of your native California swarm with the sentinels of oppression! Are your pulses dead? Thank God, mine is not - and I pledge you my blood's as noble as the best!
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Unity Against Tyranny
Zorro
No force that tyranny could bring would dare oppose us - once united. Our country's out of joint. It is for us caballeros, and us alone, to set it right!
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Advocating Justice for the Oppressed
Zorro
Justice for all! Punishment for the oppressors of the helpless - from the governor down.
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The Mystery of Zorro's Mask
Lolita Pulido
Why do wear a mask?
Zorro
Perhaps to hide the features of a De Bergerac.
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A Romantic Compliment on Beauty
Zorro
Oh, such lips! Turn not away. Your face is heaven - all else is blackness!
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A Threat from Sgt. Pedro Gonzales
Sgt. Pedro Gonzales
It's a good thing for that carver of Z's that he keeps out of reach of my sword. I'll carve Gonzales all over his body.
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