Cora Munro The whole world's so vile.
Played by Madeleine Stowe 
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) · 33 quotes
The Last of the Mohicans (1992) · 33 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in The Last of the Mohicans (1992): in 14 of its 33 quotes
Most scenes with: Hawkeye (7), Maj. Heyward (4), Colonel Munro (4)
The whole world's on fire isn't it?
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Death and honor are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
My father says...
Cora Munro [interupting]
Your Father?
Chingachgook told me, "Don't try to understand them; and don't try to make them understand you. For they are a breed apart and make no sense."
My father's people say that at the birth of the sun and of his brother the moon, their mother died. So the sun gave to the earth her body, from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars, and the stars he threw into the night sky to remind him of her soul. So there's the Cameron's monument. My folks' too, I guess.
Cora Munro You are right, Mr. Poe. We do not understand what is happening here. And it's not as I imagined it would be, thinking of it in Boston and in London...
Might I inquire after the situation sir, given that I've seen the French engineering from the ridge above.
The situation is that his guns are bigger than mine and he has more of them. We keep our heads down while his troops dig 30 yards of trench a day. When those trenches are 200 yards from the fort and within range, he'll bring in his 15-inch mortars, lob explosive rounds over our walls, and pound us to dust.
And who empowered these colonials to pass judgement on England's policies, and to come and go without so much as a "by your leave"?
Cora Munro They do not live their lives "by your leave"! They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, burying their children along the way!
You are defending him because you've become infatuated with him!
Cora Munro Duncan, you are a man with a few admirable qualities, but taken as a whole, I was wrong to have thought so highly of you.
Cora Munro What are you looking at, sir?
I'm looking at you, miss.
Cora Munro [hasn't moved]
Though they are strangers, they are at least entitled to a Christian burial!
Cora Munro I will not. I have seen the face of war before, Mr. Poe, but never war made on women and children. And almost as cruel is your indifference.
[Hawkeye turns back and rapidly approaches her. She takes a step back, fearful.] [contained]
Miss Munro. [pause] They are not strangers .... And they stay as they lay ...!
Cora Munro They're going to hang you. Why didn't you leave when you had the chance?
Because what I'm interested in is right here.
Cora Munro Justice? If that's justice than the sooner French guns blow the English out of America the better it will be for the people here!
You do not know what you're saying, girl!
Cora Munro Yes I do, I know exactly what what I'm saying, and if it is sedition, than I am guilty of sedition too!
Sorry to disappoint you.
Cora Munro No, on the contrary. It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been.
[as he is being forced away]
I told them to take me. Take me! My compliments, sir! Take her and get out!
Cora Munro Duncan! Duncan, no!
