Most-quoted character in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962): in 10 of its 15 quotes
Most scenes with: 1st Lt. Fletcher Christian (4)
Now don't mistake me. I'm not advising cruelty or brutality with no purpose. My point is that cruelty with purpose is not cruelty - it's efficiency. Then a man will never disobey once he's watched his mate's backbone laid bare. He'll see the flesh jump, hear the whistle of the whip for the rest of his life.
Captain William Bligh It is a matter of supernatural indifference to me whether you contaminate the natives or the natives contaminate you. I have but one concern - our mission. Let one of you provoke an incident which endangers it and I shall cause that man to curse his mother for giving him birth.
Captain William Bligh Midshipmen - be a dull navy without them. Now get that slut off my ship.
Captain William Bligh While our mission remains unfulfilled I'm not in any port, Mr Fryer, I'm command where you may find one day it's always lonely. You see, command allows no intimacies. You can hardly expect unquestioning obedience from last night's partner in a debauch.
Captain William Bligh I'm not leaving you Mr Christian, not ever. Go to the dirtiest little corner of the world I'll be there, right behind you, with a rope in my hand.
Captain William Bligh The king's navy will not rest until every mutineer is captured and executed. Wherever you go, wherever you hide a thousand ships will search you out.
I was just thinking, sir, that our little errand for groceries might wind up in a page of naval history if we succeed in negotiating The Horn in the dead of winter.
Captain Bligh Why shouldn't we succeed? Admiral Anderson did.
Yes, but of course he didn't choose to attempt it in a ninety-one-foot chamber pot. In any event, his was the only ship to do it and I believe he lost fifty percent of his crew.
Captain Bligh I wonder why an alleged gentleman should give his first loyalty to ordinary seamen.
Instead of to other alleged gentlemen?
Captain Bligh Impertinence noted. It shall be logged. Do you care to enlarge the entry?
Yes, only with this observation, which I will report to the Admiralty in any case: in my years of service I have never met an officer who inflicted punishment upon men with such incredible relish. Sickening.
Captain Bligh Then go and be sick in your cabin, Mr Christian. I have never met a naval officer who was so proud of a weak stomach.
Captain Bligh In a civilised soceity, certain lewd intentions towards the female members of one's family would be regarded as a, well, as an insult. Do you follow me?
I think so, sir.
Captain Bligh But in Tahiti, the insult lies in the omission of those lewd intentions. Manners that would offend a dock-side harlot seem to be the only acceptable behaviour to King Hitihiti.
There'll be no more killing aboard this ship, not even Captain Bligh.
Captain Bligh If that's an attempt to earn clemency, I spit on it.
You remarkable pig. You can thank whatever pig god you pray to that you haven't turned me into a murderer.
