Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) quotes
Director
Peter Weir.
Cast
Russell Crowe.
Paul Bettany.
Billy Boyd.
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
To wives and sweethearts.
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
To wives and sweethearts.
– Officers
May they never meet.
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
Do you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly?
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
No!
– Crew
Want to call that raggedy-ass Napoleon your king?
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
No!
– Crew
You want your children to sing the “La Marseillaise?”
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
NO!
– Crew
The simple truth is, not all of us become the men we once hoped we might be. But we are all God’s creatures. If there are those among us who thought ill of Mr. Hollom, or spoke ill of him, or failed him in respect of fellowship… then we ask for your forgiveness, Lord. And we ask for his.
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
God be praised.
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
Jack, I fear you have burdened me with a debt I can never fully repay.
– Dr. Stephen Maturin
Tosh! Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate.
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
A shrub? Nonsense! I shall name a great tortoise after you: Testudo Aubreii!
– Dr. Stephen Maturin
Is them ‘is brains, doctor?
– Able Seaman
No, that’s just dried blood. THOSE are his brains.
– Dr. Stephen Maturin
Mr Blakeney, it would appear that you have the makings of a naturalist.
– Dr. Stephen Maturin
Well, sir, perhaps I could combine them to be a sort of… fighting naturalist, like you, sir.
– Blakeney
They don’t combine too well, I find. Right…
– Dr. Stephen Maturin
Should you really be getting up, sir?
– Blakeney
Mr Blakeney, are you also a doctor?
– Dr. Stephen Maturin
No, sir.
– Blakeney
No, you’re not.
– Dr. Stephen Maturin
For England, for home, and for the prize!
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
This is the second time he’s done this to me. There will not be a third.
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
In all my years I’ve never seen the like. It has to be more than 100 sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That’s seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that’s seamanship.
– Mr. Allen, Master
Never met a dead man that bought me a drink.
– Nehemiah Slade, Able Seaman
And I never met a live one that you bought one for, neither.
– Joe Plaice, Able Seaman
Tell me this wasn’t on my account.
– Dr. Stephen Maturin
No, not at all. I just needed to stretch my legs.
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
Master at arms, take that man below and clap him in irons.
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
Excuse me, sir, but what are they building?
– Calamy, Midshipman
Your first command.
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
What is it with this man? Did I kill a relative of his in battle, perhaps? His boy, God forbid?
– Capt. Jack Aubrey
He fights like you, Jack.
– Dr. Stephen Maturin
Captain’s not called Lucky Jack for no reason.
– Joseph Nagle, Carpenter’s Mate