Charlie Burns quotes from The Proposition (2005)

Charlie Burns

No more.

Charlie Burns

You touch my brother again, I'll kill you.

Charlie Burns

One more crack about the Irish, Mr. Lamb, and I'll shoot you. Am I clear?

Charlie Burns

You know, Samuel, the thing I relished the most while I was away? Was not having to see your **** face all the time.

Now, suppose I told you there was a way to save your little brother Mikey from the noose. Suppose I gave you a horse and a gun. Suppose, Mr. Burns, I was to give both you and your young brother Mikey, here, a pardon. Suppose I said that I could give you the chance to expunge the guilt beneath which you so clearly labor. Suppose I gave you till Christmas. Now, suppose you tell me what it is I want from you.

Charlie Burns

You want me to kill me brother.

I want you to kill your brother.

Jellon Lamb

Forgive me, sir, but I've been stuck here with no one but this sorry sack of Hibernian pig shit for conversation. Poor, poor Dan O'Reilly. Sit, sir. Drink with me.

Charlie Burns

One more crack about the Irish, Mr. Lamb, and I'll shoot you. Am I clear?

Jellon Lamb

Oh, as the waters of Ennis, sir. Let us drink, then, to the Irish. No finer race of men have ever... peeled a potato.

Charlie Burns

Do you pray, Mr. Lamb?

Jellon Lamb

Good Lord, son. No, I do not.

Jellon Lamb

We are white men, Sir, not beasts. Oh, he sits up there in those melancholy hills; some say he sleeps in caves like a beast, slumbers deep like the Kraken. The blacks say that he is a spirit. The troopers will never catch him. Common force is meaningless, Mr. Murphy, as he squats up there on his impregnable perch. So I wait, Mr. Murphy. I wait.

Charlie Burns

Aye, you wait. You wait here... bounty hunter.

Charlie Burns

You're a copper, Stanley, not a judge and jury.

Clearly, Mr. Burns, I am what I wish to be.

Do I need to introduce myself?

Charlie Burns

I know you are.

Good. And I know who you are.

Well, allow me to address the subject of your brother, Mr. Burns. Christmas, as you're probably aware, is fast approaching. And Christmas this year will hold a unique significance for young Micky here.

Charlie Burns

Mikey.

Because on Christmas day, I have made plans for him to taken from the jail in Banyon and hanged by the neck until he is dead.

Charlie Burns

So, what is it that you want?

I want Arthur Burns

Charlie Burns

I no longer ride with me brother.

Now, I will allow you a moment to think about it.

Make no mistake, Mr. Burns. It will be done. I will civilize this place.

Charlie Burns

The **** are you talking about, Stanley?