Ryans Daughter Quotes

Captain: [to Doryan] There's no local crumpet. It's married or virgin here, you know. And that priest down there's got eyes in the back of his head.

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Father Collins: It's time you married Rosy. It's time she got a house of her own to clean, floors to scrub.
Thomas Ryan: My princess isn't interested in fellows, Father.
Father Collins: Your princess has got fellows enough in here [taps head]
Father Collins: And fellas running loose in there will do a girl more damage than a barracks full of drunk dragoons.
Thomas Ryan: Well, if it's one of that lot that's fit for her, Father, maybe you'll point him out!

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Father Collins: I don't know what's the matter with youngsters in this town. Their talk is filthy, their doings are secret, and cruelty for fun.
Thomas Ryan: Unemployment is the matter with them, Father Hugh. It's the deliberate policy for the British government that Irish youngsters shall corrupt in idleness.

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Maureen: Aren't the police a dirty lot, hobnobbing with British soldiers!
Const. O'Connor: I heard that, Maureen Cassidy!
Maureen: You were meant to, Constable O'Connor!

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Paddy: [after disposing of a cart with a shipment of weapons] Some fine pair of gun runners we are!

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Thomas Ryan: [about to inform on O'Leary's men] Oh God, why have you done this to me?

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