The Most Dangerous Game Quotes

Count Zaroff We'll have capital sport together I hope.

Eve Trowbridge Oh Martin, turn in early, please.

Martin Trowbridge Don't worry. The Count will take care of me.

Count Zaroff Indeed I shall.

Count Zaroff Here on my island, I hunt the most dangerous game.

Doc - Passenger on Yacht I was thinking of the inconsistency of civilization. The beast of the jungle, killing just for his existence, is called savage. The man, killing just for sport, is called civilized. It's a bit inconsistent, isn't it?

Bob Rainsford Now just a minute. What makes you think it isn't just as much sport for the animal as it is for the man. Now take that fellow, for instance. There never was a time when he couldn't have gotten away, but he didn't want to. He got interested in hunting me. He didn't hate me for stalking him anymore than I hated him for trying to charge me. As a matter of fact, we admired each other.

Doc - Passenger on Yacht Perhaps, but would you change places with the tiger?

Bob Rainsford Well, not now.

Count Zaroff He talks of wine and women as a prelude to the hunt. We barbarians know that it is after the chase - and then only - that man revels.

Bob Rainsford It does seem a bit like cocktails before breakfast.

Count Zaroff Of course, yes. You know the saying of the Ugandi chieftains: Hunt first the enemy, then the woman.

Bob Rainsford That's the savages idea everywhere.

Count Zaroff It is the natural instinct. The blood is quickened by the kill. One passion builds upon another. Kill, then love! When you have known that, you have known ecstasy.

Bob Rainsford This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.

Count Zaroff God made some men kings, some beggars. Me, He made a hunter. My hand was made for the trigger.

Captain The channel's here on the chart, all right, and so are the marking lights.

First mate Then what's wrong with them?

Captain Those lights don't seem to be in just the right place. They're both a bit out of position according to this.

First mate Two light buoys means a safe channel between the world over!

Captain Safe between the world over" doesn't go in these waters.