The Sea Hawk Quotes

Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe: You Spanish have a gift for hospitality when your guests are in chains.

Movie: The Sea Hawk
King Philip II: [anticipating the success of the Armada] With England conquered, nothing can stand in our way. Northern Africa... Europe as far east as the Urals... then the New World: to the north, to the south, west to the Pacific... over the Pacific to China and to the Indies will our empire spread. One day, before my death, we shall sit here and gaze at this map upon the wall. It will have ceased to be a map of the world. It will be Spain.

Movie: The Sea Hawk
[at court, Thorpe explains that he stopped the Spanish ship and freed Englishmen being held as slaves]
Queen Elizabeth: So you have taken it upon yourself to remedy the defects of Spanish justice?
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe: Insofar as it lies within my power, yes, your Grace.
Queen Elizabeth: And you conceive it to be part of your... mission to assault and loot the ship of an ambassador to the court? Captain Thorpe, do you imagine that we are at war with Spain?
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe: Your Grace, Spain is at war with the world. [the other Sea Hawk captains and the people in the court murmur approval]
Queen Elizabeth: Enough of this! Listen to me, every one of you! Never again will you dare - in my presence - to condone your crimes under the mask of patriotism. No more of such talk, do you hear? And for the future let me warn you... that any unwarranted attack upon the person or property of Spanish subjects will cost the guilty party his head! His head, is that clear?

Movie: The Sea Hawk