Robin Hood (2006 TV series) Quotes

[Much yelling at the Sheriff's guards as they leave, after being fooled.]
Much: We have won, and they should be ASHAMED! SHAME ON YOU! Come back here again and my master and I shall see that you leave with more than just your TAILS between your legs!
Head Guard: "My master and I"? There are only two of them!
Much: [Wide-eyed.] I shouldn't have said that.

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Much: In fact, I can feel a song coming on.
Robin: No! No song! Absolutely no song!
Much: It'd be a cheery song.
Robin: And it would be a tragedy, too! A tragedy for you to have survived the Turk, and made it to within a few miles of Locksley, only to be killed by your own master!
Much: You know, it is lucky I do not readily take offense! You know, a smaller man would be offended! A smaller man would be wounded!
Robin: And a cleverer man would sing fewer songs!

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Much: [To Dan Scarlett.] We are home unscathed. Well... scathed. Very scathed. But happy. And hungry. Mostly hungry.

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Much: [After talking with Jeffory.] That man is a showoff. If there are no eggs left, I'm going after him.

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Marian: My father seems to think he should see you. Come tonight after midnight. Our house is watched, take care not to be seen.
Robin: Don't worry, I can look after myself.
Marian: Do you think I care about you? I care about my father. Do you think you can slight these people in public and get away with it. You are a fool.

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Marian: Five years later and you're still peddling the same old drivel. Does it ever work?
Robin: You'd be surprised.
Marian: Amazed.

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Jailer: Give your names!
Will: Will and Luke Scarlett.
Robin: What is your crime?
Will: Living in the wrong place at the wrong time. Living under an evil Sheriff. Where do our taxes go? They go to Nottingham, to the Sheriff.

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Woodvale: It has been a good month. We've collected nearly £300.
Sheriff: Would you want to be the King in Antioch - a clue: no - trying to feed a starving army on £300, when you promised £500?
Woodvale: It's more than we ever managed before.
Sheriff: [sarcastic] Oh, yippee! So the King is starving in the Holy Land and you have failed him, but [whiny voice] "It's more than we ever managed before!"

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Sheriff: Rumours abound.
Robin: What rumours?
Sheriff: That you are weak. That you have returned weakened from your exertions in the Holy Land.
Much: My master returns with honours, honours from the King!
Sheriff: Mmm. Well, the greater honour would have been to have stood and fought with him, surely?
Robin: [sternly] I have visited my peasants in your dungeons. They have committed grave crimes...
Much: Master, surely--
Robin: ... which would make all the more compassionate your gesture of pardoning them!
Sheriff: Pardoning them? I will see them hang in the morning. You yourself said that we risk rebellion. We must have order.
Robin: It is custom for the Sheriff to hear his nobles' requests for clemency--!
Sheriff: La-di-da-di-da! Oh, by the way, in your absence we nominated you to oversee tomorrow's entertainment.
Robin: No.
Sheriff: Oh, you don't want these rumours of weakness to spread, hm? Better scotch them now, otherwise we'll all pay.

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[As Bendedict Giddens, Will and Luke Scarlett and Alan-a-Dale are about to hang]
Sheriff: May the souls--
Jeffrey: [disguised as a priest] WAIT!
Sheriff: [exasperated] "Oh, nah, nah, nah! Please don't kill my brother, my little baby, my INBRED COUSIN!"
Jeffrey: On behalf of Anthony, our bishop, I claim benefit of clergy for these men. They cannot hang.
Sheriff: These are not holy men. These people cannot plead the cloth. Get on with it.
Jeffrey: I came last night to administer their last rites.
Sheriff: ... So?
Jeffrey: And each one came to God through me, repenting their sins and asking to take the cloth. I felt duty-bound to consult the bishop, and he in turn confers status of novice unto each man.
Sheriff: Shut up.
Jeffrey: [reading from a piece of parchment] "I, Anthony, very Reverend Vicar Apostolic, hereby confer—"
Sheriff: SHUT UP!!!![turns to Canon Richard] Is this possible?
Canon Richard: They could not have become novices overnight.
Jeffrey: They are become postulants!... Novice novices, if you like. And so are under the protection of the Church!
[Awkward silence]
Sheriff: Novice novices! How novel. Well, [points to the gallows] hang them [points to Jeffrey] and arrest him.

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Tom: Robin Hood could swing out these trees any time and bash your brains out!
Much: Oh, Shirley Robin Hood couldn't take on all of us.
Tom: Robin wouldn't be scared of you. You're girls compared to him and his men!

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Robin: [About the Sheriff.] Stop him. I'm going to stop him.
Much: We can't... stop... the Sheriff. Only the Crown can withdraw his license.
Robin: When the King returns, he will have his comeuppance. Until then we will scope out his sadistic punishments. We will stop his insane taxes and give them back to the poor, where they belong! We will rob him! And if you dead men had had spines in your backs, that's what you would've been doing for the last five years.

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Robin: [About the Sheriff.] I do not know why Englishmen travel two thousand miles to fight the heathen... when the real cancer's right here.

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Marian: I also told you confronting the Sheriff wouldn't work. You didn't listen to that.
Robin: I didn't have much choice.
Marian: Everything is a choice, everything we do! Grow up.

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Much: [Grabbing onto Robin's sleeves.] Master, no! You cannot go back in there. If you go back in and die, then I will die. Of grief. So you must come now, if only to save me.
Robin: [Likewise holding Much's arms.] Yes, and THAT... is why I love you.

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Sheriff: [To his Master of Arms.] Do you think... two deaths are enough, hmm? To get them to really turn against him, to rebel? If we're going to blame Hood, well, let's do it properly. What d'you think? Hmm? I think maybe a few more deaths'd be interesting-- you know, pretty deaths, not just bored but pretty deaths.

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Allan: [As Robin explains he's going to the castle.] Got some ideas where I could get in.
Robin: Go on.
Allan: Well, d'you want clever or really clever?
Robin: I want fast.

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Sheriff: [As he wakes up, and sees his potential attacker is simply Robin.] Why can it never be a beautiful woman?

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[About Marian's activity as the Nightwatchman.]
Marian: My father had me taught to fight... He wanted me to have choices in the world. And I choose to help the poor. You are not about to stop me doing that.
Robin: But does your father know what you're doing?
Marian: He... thinks I enjoy embroidery.

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Robin: "For every man there is a purpose which he sets up in his life. Let yours be the doing of all good deeds." [Shrugs.] That's us, lads.
Will: Is that the Bible?
Robin: It's the Qur'an.
Will: What's that?
Much: It's the Turk Bible. He read it in the Holy Land.
Allan: Why?
Robin: [Shrugs again.] I wanted to know what it was that we were fighting.

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Sheriff: "Royston White! I fight for King and Country!" Blahdy-blahdy-blah.

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Sheriff: I have a favor to ask. I would be very grateful if you'd, uh... [Holds up a dagger.] ...use this on our mutual friend, Robin Hood.
Roy: I'd sooner kill me own mother.
Sheriff: [Laughs, knowing he has Roy's mother as a prisoner.] Yes... What an amazing coincidence.

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Robin: So, when I was in the Holy Land, you must have had suitors.
Marian: I must have.
Robin: Well, you've got to admit, it is surprising you're not married.
Marian: It is, and yet when one cosiders that marriage requires a man, perhaps not.
Robin: A challenge. Aaahh!
Marian: A statement.
Robin: AAAH!
'Marian: That hurt?
Robin: YES!!
Marian: Good.

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Robin: Why is it everything you say of me sounds like a criticism?
Marian: I do not know. Perhaps this is the way that we have chosen, always different directions.

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Robin: Can you take the baby? His mother lives in Knighton.
Marian: What? Because I'm a woman.
Robin: No, because I have to go. My men are waiting.
Marian: The call of the wild.

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Roy: [As his mother is about to be hanged.] YOU'LL ROT IN HELL FOR THIS!
Sheriff: Really? Just for this?

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Marian: I'm going... [points to her right] ...this way.
Robin: I'm going... [points the opposite way.]
Marian: Always opposite directions...

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Marian: [Sending food over walls attached to arrows] You know that's a waste of arrows
'Robin Hood: No!
Marian: You could just throw them over.
Robin Hood: Yeah you could. But where would be the fun in that?

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Robin Hood: Do you mind? I'm just trying to get the baby to sleep!

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Roy: My name is Royston White, I fight for Robin Hood and King Richard!

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