Raiders of the Lost Ark quotes

View Quote Jones: You think she'll still be with him?
Brody: I don't know. Marion's the least of your worries right now though, Indy.
Jones: What do you mean?
Brody: Well, for nearly three thousand years, man has been searching for the lost Ark. That's not something to be taken lightly. No one knows its secrets. It's like... nothing you've ever gone after before.
Jones: Oh, Marcus! What are you trying to do? Scare me? You sound like my mother! We've known each other for a long time. You know I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus-pocus. I'm going after a find of incredible historical significance, you're talking about the boogie man. [mumbling as he tosses his revolver into a suitcase] Besides, you know what a cautious fellow I am.

View Quote Jones: I had it, Marcus. I had it in my hand.
Brody: What happened?
Jones: Guess.
Brody: [chuckles] Belloq?
Jones: Wanna hear about it?
Brody: Not at all.

View Quote Marion: Well Jones, at least you haven't forgotten how to show a lady a good time!
Jones: Boy, you're something!
Marion: Yeah, I'll tell you what. Until I get back my five thousand dollars, you're gonna get more than you bargained for! I'm your goddamn partner!

View Quote Brody: They want you to get ahold of the Ark before the Nazis do and they'll be willing to pay handsomely for it.
Jones: And the museum? The museum gets the Ark when we're finished?
Brody: [hesitates, knowing probably not] Hell, yes.

View Quote Jones: There's a big snake in the plane, Jock!
Jock: That's just my pet snake Reggie!
Jones: I hate snakes, Jock! I HATE 'EM!
Jock: Come on! Show a little backbone, will ya!

View Quote Jones: Get us a transport to England. Boat, plane, anything. Meet me in Cairo. I'm going after that truck.
Sallah: How?
Jones: I don't know, I'm making this up as I go.

View Quote Jones: [commenting on Marion's new dress from Belloq] Where'd you get that, from him?
Marion: I was trying to escape, no thanks to you!
Jones: How hard were you trying?

View Quote Sallah: Holy smokes my friends! I'm so pleased you're not dead! Indy, we have no time. If you still want the Ark, it has been loaded onto a truck for Cairo.
Jones: Truck? What truck?

View Quote Life goes on, Indy. There is the proof!

View Quote Sallah: Everything has been arranged.
Jones: The Ark--
Sallah: Is on board. Nothing is likely now that you are here, or what is left of you.
Jones: You trust these guys?
Sallah: Yes. Katanga, these are my friends. They are my family, and I will hear of it if they are not treated well.
Katanga: My cabin is theirs. Doctor Jones, I've heard a lot about you, sir. Your appearance is exactly the way I imagined!

View Quote Cairo - city of the living. Paradise on earth!

View Quote [catching a date Indy was about to eat after finding the dead monkey] Bad dates.

View Quote Fools! Bureaucratic fools! They don't know what they've got there.

View Quote So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine.

View Quote Sallah: Indy. Why does the floor move?
Jones: Gimme your torch. [drops the torch into the Well of Souls and finds it covered with snakes] Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Sallah: Asps. Very dangerous. [pause] You go first.