The Scarlet Pimpernel Quotes

Armand: You used me.

Chauvelin: Yes. And as long as you are here to serve the committee, I shall continue to use you.

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Chauvelin: An oath to a scoundrel is meaningless.

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Chauvelin: An oath to a scoundrel is meaningless.

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Chauvelin: Oh, the English, and their STUPID sense of fair play!

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Chauvelin: They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. is he in heaven, is he in hell? no. He's sitting right in front of me.

Percy Blakeney: But it don't rhymn, Chuffnal, and it ain't a proper poem if it don't rhymn.

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Chauvelin: We shall execute our king instead, sir, and exalt our tailors.

Sir Percy: More's the pity. Then your tailors will rule the land, and no one will make the clothes. So much for French fashion, and French politics.

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Citizen Chauvelin: [after reciting his poem to Chauvelin] Delightful.

Percy Blakeney: What?

Citizen Chauvelin: Especially that line, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.

Percy Blakeney: Yes, I like that, too, because you see, I hear that they do and that gives the line a sort of something... sort of gives it... uh... uh... something. Uh... u-uh... if I make myself clear.

Citizen Chauvelin: Clear as crystal.

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Col. Winterbottom: Are you being offensive, sir?

Percy Blakeney: Who, sir? Me, sir? No, sir.

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Col. Winterbottom: Are you being offensive, sir?

Percy Blakeney: Who, sir? Me, sir? No, sir.

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Count de Tournay: Robespierre? I'd sooner trust a snake.

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Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Can you honestly deny that you've changed?

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Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Can you honestly deny that you've changed?

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Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Can't you rise above trivialities for once?

Percy Blakeney: Can't rise above anything longer than three syllables, my dear - never could.

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Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Oh but Percy, through me, a good, a generous man my lose his life. Oh Percy, what can I do? How can I warn him?

Percy Blakeney: Warn him? Against what?

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: Against the danger if he goes back to France.

Percy Blakeney: Well, if he's the kind of lunatic I take him to be, your warning's not going to stop him.

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: But he might be going to his death.

Percy Blakeney: That's all the fellow lives for. Besides, he doesn't know you're in love with him.

Lady Marguerite Blakeney: I'm not in love with him! I admire his head of wisdom, but I'm not in love with him.

Percy Blakeney: Oh, but you are. It's a dangerous game, my dear. Falling in love with a phantom. For all you know, he might be a married man who is deeply in love with his wife.

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Marguerite: I see now what begins as a dream can end as a nightmare. Some causes can become warped and twisted, like some men.

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Marguerite: I see now what begins as a dream can end as a nightmare. Some causes can become warped and twisted, like some men.

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Marguerite: Will you not even defend your wife's honor?

Sir Percy: Od's fish, m'dear. Would you have me challenge the poor countess to a duel?

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Maximilien de Robespierre: Poor young Tallien. No Theresia, no heart. Soon no head

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Percy Blakeney: [before reciting his poem to Winterbottom] Slap me, I'm bubbling over with good humor this morning. Would you believe me, I've just written a masterpiece.

Col. Winterbottom: Who, sir? You, sir?

Percy Blakeney: Me, sir

Col. Winterbottom: No, sir.

Percy Blakeney: Yes, sir. All about this mysterious Pimpernel fellow. How it came to me Heaven only knows, because it was the busiest moment of the day. Damn me, I was tying my cravat.

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Percy Blakeney: [before reciting his poem to Winterbottom] Slap me, I'm bubbling over with good humor this morning. Would you believe me, I've just written a masterpiece.

Col. Winterbottom: Who, sir? You, sir?

Percy Blakeney: Me, sir

Col. Winterbottom: No, sir.

Percy Blakeney: Yes, sir. All about this mysterious Pimpernel fellow. How it came to me Heaven only knows, because it was the busiest moment of the day. Damn me, I was tying my cravat.

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Percy Blakeney: I'm in love.

Elderly citizen of Boulogne: It's the wife of another man!

Percy Blakeney: No it's my own.

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Percy Blakeney: Magnificent fight this afternoon, my dear. Gad! That Mendoza's got quick ears. In the 10th round, when Jackson had him down, I shouted, Get up, Mendoza! And damn me, he did and sink me, he won!

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Percy Blakeney: Sir my most abject and humble apologies, I completely drowned your cravat. How can I possible make amends for such clumsiness?

Chauvelin: It's of no consequents it's only a cravat.

Percy Blakeney: Only a cravat? Oh, my dear sir. A cravat is the apotheosis of all neckwear. A cravat desigeshes a man of refinement from the merely ordinary it sneers at the severity of the stock. It is the only item of dress the expresses true individuality. And whether is be made of lace or silk or the finest loom it thrives on ingenuity, on originality, and above all on personality down to the last skilled of twist of bow or knot

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Percy Blakeney: They seek him here, they seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven? Or is he in hell? / That damned elusive Pimpernel!

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Percy Blakeney: They seek him here.

Prine of Wales: They seek him there.

Percy Blakeney: Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.

Prince of Wales: Is he in heaven?

Percy Blakeney: Or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel!

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Percy Blakeney: They seek him here.

Prine of Wales: They seek him there.

Percy Blakeney: Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.

Prince of Wales: Is he in heaven?

Percy Blakeney: Or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel!

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Percy Blakeney: To love your wife, frightfully unfashionable.

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Percy: Clean bowled by God, sir! That's a cricketing expression, Monsieur Shuffle-on.

Chauvelin: Chauvelin.

Percy: Whatever.

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Prince of Wales: [of Sir Percy] Spineless, brainless and useless...

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Prince of Wales: [of Sir Percy] Spineless, brainless and useless...

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