Dragonheart (1996) quotes

View Quote Bowen: (stuck in Draco's mouth: sees an arm stuck in the teeth and plucks it out) Oh, good lord...Sir Eglamore. (throws the arm out behind him)
Draco: Oh, thank you very much. That's been stuck down there for months. Would you mind getting your buttocks off my tongue?
Bowen: Why should you be comfortable? My armor is rusting in your drool, and your breath is absolutely foul.
Draco: Well, what do you expect with old knights rotting between my molars?

View Quote Bowen: What does a dragon know of the Old Code, anyway?
Draco: His blade defends the helpless. His might upholds the weak. His word speaks only truth.
Bowen: Shut up. I remember. That's all it is, a memory. Nothing can bring it back.
Draco: You sound like one who tried.
Bowen: And failed. So I no longer try to change the world, dragon, I just try to get by in it.
Draco: Yes, well, it's better than death, I suppose.
Bowen: Oh, is it? I should think you'd welcome death. You know, the last of your kind, all your friends dead, hunted wherever you go...
Draco: Do you delight in reminding me? Yes, knight, I do long for death... but fear it.
Bowen: Why? Aside from your misery, what's to lose?
Draco: My soul.

View Quote Bowen: You can keep your gratitude, I'll take the gold, yours or the king's.
Felton: Gold, knight?
Bowen: We made a bargain, didn't we? One dragon killed, one bag of gold.
Gilbert: Your honor has a price, Sir Knight?
Bowen: It has expenses. Honor won't feed my belly nor shoe my horse.

View Quote Bowen: [distraught] What now, Draco? Without you, what do we do? Where do we turn?
Draco's voice: [comforting] To the stars, Bowen. To the stars.

View Quote Draco: (notices the dragon teeth attached to Bowen's shield) You must have hated us very much.
Bowen: I hated one of you. These I killed because I wanted to kill him. But I never found him. And I never will; if you're the last, he must be dead.
Draco: (smiling awkwardly) Oh, yes. Tell me - what was he like, this, uh, dragon that you hated?
Bowen: He only had half a heart. But even that was enough to pollute an innocent boy.
Draco: (suddenly angry) Einon was no innocent! He polluted the heart!
Bowen: How do you know that?! How do you know that, dragon?
Draco: (scratches his head evasively) All dragons know that story! What was to be their hope became their doom! A spoiled, ungrateful child was given a great gift and destroyed it!
Bowen: No! I knew Einon. I was his teacher. I taught him the ways of honor, of right.
Draco: Then he betrayed you, just as he betrayed the dragon whose heart he broke.
Bowen: That's a lie, dragon!
Draco: STOP CALLING ME "DRAGON"! I have a name!
Bowen: (after a short silence) Well, what is it?
Draco: Huh. You couldn't possibly pronounce it in your tongue.
Bowen: (smirking) Try me!
Draco: It's-- (suddenly roars in pain and clutches at his shoulder; in Einon's castle, Kara has stabbed him)

View Quote Draco: Have you been watching over me all night?
Bowen: I've been thinking.
Draco: Yes? About what?
Bowen: Many things. Mostly about what to call you. I think I've found you a name.
Draco: You say that as though you reached up and plucked it from the sky.
Bowen: I did. Up there. Do you see that group of stars? (points at the Draco constellation)
Draco: I know those stars very well.
Bowen: Do you see the shape that they make?
Draco: Mm-hmm, a dragon.
Bowen: Yes. They call it Draco. It means "dragon" in the scholars' speech.
Draco: (chuckling) So instead of calling me "dragon" in your tongue, you'll call me "dragon" in some other tongue?
Bowen: You're right, it's silly.
Draco: No! No, I would be honored to be named after those stars. I... I truly would. Thank you, Bowen. "Draco"...

View Quote Draco: If you win, you'll be out of work.
Bowen: I will not stop until I've rid the world of every last one of you.
Draco: I AM the last one!

View Quote Draco: Now it's you, Bowen. It's you that has to do it.
Bowen: What are you talking about?
Draco: As the heart binds Einon to me in life, it binds us in death.
Bowen: [lifting a chain off Draco's head] That's not... true!
Draco: You've seen that it is! Through the heart, we share each other's pains and power. But in my half beats the life source! For Einon to die, I must die!
Bowen: Einon is dead!
Draco: HE LIVES!
Bowen: It doesn't matter. Don't you hear it? Our rebels have stormed the castle; alive or dead, Einon's beaten! We've won!
Draco: You will never win until Einon's evil is destroyed, and to do that, you must destroy me!
Bowen: No.
Draco: Once you swore your sword and service were mine, to call when I had need of you, to ask what I would of you. I hold you to your vow, knight! [looking aside] He's coming. Coming to stop you! Strike before it's too late!
[Kara approaches, shaking her head and trying to dissuade Bowen]
Bowen: You are the last.
Draco: My time is over! Strike!
Bowen: You are my friend.
Draco: Then as my friend, STRIKE, PLEASE!
Bowen: I can't.
Draco: Then I will make you! [starts snarling and clawing at Bowen] Fight back, dragon-slayer! Defend yourself!

View Quote Draco: Who's the girl?
Bowen: A nuisance! Get rid of her!
Draco: Why?
Bowen: They're trying to placate you with a sacrifice.
Draco: (sarcastically) Oh, now whoever gave them that bright idea?
Bowen: Never mind! Just get rid of her!
Draco: How?
Bowen: Eat her!
Draco: Oh, please. Yuck!
Bowen: Aren't we squeamish? You ate Sir Eglamore, hypocrite!
Draco: I merely chewed in self-defense, but I never swallowed.
Bowen: Improvise!
Draco: All right, all right!

View Quote Draco: Why must you knight errants, out to make a name for yourselves, always pick on us dragons?
Bowen: I don't need a name! And I've got a collection of my own!
Draco: [snorts in disgust] You're one who kills dragons for money.
Bowen: It's honest enough work! One must earn a living!
Draco: Oh yes, one must live. Well, since you seek a profit, we might as well begin.
Bowen: Oh, don't flatter yourself! It's not the profit, it's the pleasure!
Draco: Perhaps less pleasurable and more costly than you think!

View Quote Einon: Lay down, Bowen! You're the sad remains of dead systems and dead beliefs!
Bowen: They were your beliefs!
Einon: Never! Never mine!
Bowen: [heartbroken] But... you spoke the words...you spoke them from your heart!
Einon: I vomited them up because I couldn't stomach them! Because I knew it was what you wanted to hear!
Bowen: Lies! Liar! I taught you!
Einon: You taught me to fight, that's all! I took what I needed from you. You taught me to fight! [stabs Bowen in the shoulder, disarming him] You taught me well.

View Quote Einon: Times have not been kind to you, Bowen. You should have never broke with me.
Bowen: It was you who broke with me!
Einon: And yet, you returned to me with this girl I lost.
Bowen: (Kara shakes her head and raises her dagger) I think she wants to stay lost.
Einon: Not her decision, I'm afraid! [draws his sword] I'm ready for my lesson now, knight!

View Quote Gilbert: I've decided to compose the Ballad of Bowen! How do you prefer I should write this?
Bowen: Far away!

View Quote Gilbert: My humble life is indebt to your exalted prowess, your dauntless courage, and your superb, swift sword!
Bowen: You have the poet's gift of exaggeration.
Gilbert: Oh, sir, you should read my histories.

View Quote Gilbert: Well done, Bowen! You've done it again! What a brute! That's even bigger than the last one!
Bowen: Actually, he's about the same size.