“Oh, Miss. Oh, have pity, Miss. You don't know what you're doing Miss....” – Charlie Allnut, The African Queen ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from The African Queen 1952

Charlie Allnut Humphrey Bogart

[to Rose, as she is emptying his gin into the river]

Oh, Miss. Oh, have pity, Miss. You don't know what you're doing Miss. I'll perish without a hair of the dog. Oh Miss, it ain't your property.

More from The African Queen

Charlie Allnut Are you cracked? The currents down there are fierce. I don't want a drowned woman on my hands. What will you be thinking of next? Charlie Allnut Pinch me, Rosie. Here we are, going down the river like Anthony and Cleopatra on that barge! I'll never forget the way you looked going over the falls - head up, chin out, hair blowing in the wind - the living picture of a hero-eyne! Charlie Allnut What a time we've had, Rosie. What a time. We'll never lack for stories to tell our grandchildren, will we?