Robin
Are you really interested in learning why I turned outlaw? Or are you afraid of the truth, or of me perhaps?
I am afraid of nothing, least of all you.
Sir Robin of Locksley
16 quotes
Prince John
Claude Rains · 11 quotes
Marian
Olivia de Havilland · 9 quotes
Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Basil Rathbone · 9 quotes
Robin Hood
Errol Flynn · 4 quotes
King Richard
Ian Hunter · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Sir Robin of Locksley & Marian (7), Prince John & Marian (3), Sir Robin of Locksley & Prince John (2)
The Adventures of Robin Hood quotes
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Robin
Did I upset your plans?
You've come to Nottingham once too often.
Robin
When this is over my friend, there'll be no need for me to come again.
Robin
I couldn't help overhearing about that 'prickly feeling.' I'm very glad I did come.
That, that was a game. Now you've got to go at once.
Robin
Game, eh? Well, couldn't I join in? Of course, I probably wouldn't be as good at it as, uh, [he playfully pinches Bess' chin] this pretty young girl. I could do my best.
Bess, will you leave us? Please.
Robin
Now let's see, where does this game begin? Oh, I know. It's simple. We'll start where you are in love with me. You are, aren't you? Because I am with you. Terribly. That's why I came. I had to see you.
You must go at once and I don't love you.
Robin
Oh! You sure?
Yes.
Robin
Very well then, I'll go. This is rather unfriendly of you, exposing me to my enemies like this....Goodbye my lady.
Robin!
Robin
Yes?
Please.
Robin
Then you do love me, don't you? Don't you?
You know I do.
Robin
Well, that's different. [they kiss]
You know you're very impudent.
Robin
Me?
You are. And when my real guardian King Richard finds out about your being in love with me...
Robin
I know, he'll make me court jester.
He won't. He'll stick your funny head on London's Gate.
Robin
A very fine decoration it will be, my bold Norman beauty.
I'm not bold.
Robin
But you're a Norman...And you are a beauty. You are the most beautiful...
And you're leaving here at once. Please darling! Every minute you're here, you're in danger.
Robin
I know...Marian, will you come with me?
To Sherwood? [He nods]
Robin
I've nothing to offer you but a life of hardship and danger. But we'd be together.
But, Robin, dear.
Robin
I know. It's asking a lot. But who knows how long it will be before Richard returns. Friar Tuck would marry us. Will you?
Because I love you Robin, I'd come. Even the danger would mean nothing if you were with me.
Robin
Then you will.
No...I could help much more by watching for treachery here and leaving you free to protect Richard's people until he returns. Now do you see why you have to go back to your men alone? [He nods] Go now quickly, dearest.
Robin
To them, this is heaven. Silks for rags. Kindness instead of riches. Limitless food instead of hunger. Why, they're actually happy!
Are they?
Robin
Aren't you even a little pleased to see them enjoying themselves?
I think it's revolting.
Robin
Ha. Your life's been very sheltered, hasn't it, Marian? Too sheltered perhaps. But if you could know these people as I know them, their infinite patience, loyalty, goodness...
Merry Man
To the tables, everybody, and stuff yourselves!
I'm afraid the company has spoiled my appetite.
Don't you know that it's death to kill the King's deer?
Much Yes, and death from hunger if I don't, thanks to you and the rest of you Norman cutthroats at Nottingham Castle...You can beat and starve our Saxons now, but when King Richard escapes, he'll take you by the scruff of the neck and fling you into the sea.
Not only has she consorted with this Saxon rebel, found guilty of outlawry, theft, murder, abduction, and high treason, but she has betrayed her own Norman people. Are you not ashamed my Lady Marian?
Yes, I am, bitterly, but it's the shame that I'm a Norman, after seeing the things my fellow countrymen have done to England. At first, I wouldn't believe. Because I was a Norman, I wouldn't let myself believe that the horrors you inflicted on the Saxons were just and right. I know now why you tried so hard to kill this outlaw whom you despise. It's because he was the one man in England who protected the helpless against a lot of beasts who were drunk on human blood. And now you intend to murder your own brother.
You'll be sorry you interfered.
Sorry? I'd do it again if you killed me for it.
A prophetic speech, my lady, for that is exactly what is going to happen to you.
You wouldn't dare. I'm the royal ward of King Richard and no one but the King himself has the right to condemn me to death.
You are quite right, my dear. And it shall be a King. I will order your execution for high treason exactly forty-eight hours from now. Take her away.
Now that you've robbed us and had your fill of insulting us, we wish to leave. Come, Lady Marian.
My own men will escort my Lady. But before you take leave of her, it might be as well if you thanked her for saving your life.
My life?
Do you think you would've left this forest alive if it hadn't been for her presence here? Peter! Errol! Take six men guide our loyal host and his nervous friend to the Nottingham road.
Sheriff of Nottingham But our... our horses? Our... our clothes?
You'll return to Nottingham as you are, on foot. This, Sir Guy, will at least be a lesson to you in humility if not in mercy. The rest of your people will be returned tomorrow.
But the Lady Marian?
You'd best be started, before I've a change of mind.
Sheriff of Nottingham [Robin's men draw their swords] [to Sir Guy]
I think we'd better go!
What's your name, you Saxon dog?
Much A better one than yours!
Dickon Malbête [shaking Much]: Look to your manners! This is Sir Guy of Gisbourne.
Much Sir Guy or the Devil! There's little to choose between them.
What's your name?
Much Much the Miller's Son.
Don't you know it's death to kill the King's deer?
Much Yes, and death from hunger if I don't, thanks to you and the rest of you Norman cutthroats at Nottingham Castle.
Dickon Malbête [striking him]: Be quiet, you!
Much I won't be quiet! You can kill me if you like, but not till I've had my say. You can beat and starve us poor Saxons now, but when King Richard escapes, he'll take you by the scruff of the neck and fling you into the sea!
Come now, Sir Guy. You'd not kill a man for telling the truth, would you?
If it amused me, yes!
You're a very charming woman, Marian, but not exactly clever.
Robin Hood [to Prince John, carrying a deer over his shoulders]: Greetings, Your Highness! You know, you really should teach Gisbourne hospitality. No sooner do I enter his castle doors with a bit of meat than his starving servants try to snatch it from me! You should feed them, Gisbourne; they'll work better. [flinging the deer down onto the table in front of Prince John] With the royal compliments of your brother King Richard, God bless him!
By my faith, but you're a bold rascal. Robin... I like you.
[about Marian]
Hanging would be a small price to pay for the company of such a charming lady.
[about Robin]
He's a reckless rogue who goes around the shires stirring up the Saxons against authority, and he has the insolence to set himself up as the protector of the people.
[swearing in his Merry Men]
That you, the freemen of this forest, swear to despoil the rich only to give to the poor, to shelter the old and the helpless, to protect all women rich or poor, Norman or Saxon. Swear to fight for a free England. To protect her loyally until the return of our King and sovereign Richard the Lion Heart. And swear to fight to the death against our oppressors!
[to Little John, after losing a quarterstaff battle with him]
I wanted to see what you were made of...and I did.