What passes for honor with me is likely enough the same as with Your Lordship. When my word is given, it is good.
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
Well, you are to be congratulated on such cheaply bought nobility.
Mary MacGregor
Jessica Lange · 7 quotes
Rob Roy MacGregor
Liam Neeson · 7 quotes
Archibald Cunningham
Tim Roth · 5 quotes
Duke of Argyll
Andrew Keir · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: Mary MacGregor & Rob Roy MacGregor (3), Archibald Cunningham & Rob Roy MacGregor (2)
Rob Roy quotes
Think of yourself a scabbard, Mistress McGregor, and I the sword. And a fine fit you were, too.
I will think on you dead, until my husband makes you so. And then I will think on you no more.
What did you do with that bag of guts Killearn? Vex me not, McGregor, or I shall have you dragged a while. And I am a man of my word.
You're a thief, a murderer and a violator of women.
Aah... I had hoped you'd come to me long since on that score.
If I had known earlier you would have been dead sooner.
I will tell you something, to take with you. Your wife was far sweeter forced than many are willing. And truth put to it, I think not all of her objected...
So, Mr. Cunningham, what are these principle sins that distress your mother? Dice? Drink? Or are you a buggerer of boys?
It is years, Your Grace, since I buggered a boy... And in my own defense, I must add, I thought him a girl at the moment of entry.
[laughs]
Do you hear that, Will? Young Cunningham here was unable to tell arse from quim. What say you to that?
Will Guthrie I've heard that many Englishmen have that same difficulty.
You promised MacGregor amnesty from his debts if he would lay charges against me.
Montrose
So! That is how he cozened you into giving him shelter.
Oh, I know the truth when I hear it.
Montrose
Oh! And here was me, thinking that was God's gift alone.
Do not think that all sins go unpaid in this life, Montrose.
Montrose
Well... I see one set soon to be paid for.
Duncan MacGregor
Father, will the MacGregors ever be kings again?
All men with honor are kings. But not all kings have honor.
Duncan MacGregor
What is honor?
Honor is what no man can give ya. And none can take away. Honor is a man's gift to himself.
Duncan MacGregor
Do women have it?
Women are the heart of honor. And we cherish and protect it in them. You must never mistreat a woman, or malign man. Or stand by and see another do so.
Duncan MacGregor
How do you know if you have it?
Never worry on the getting of it. It grows in you, and speaks to you. All you need do is listen.
Robert, there is more. I am carrying a child and I do not know who is the father."
Ach, Mary...
I could not kill it, husband.
It's not the child that needs killing.
Montrose
Will you not take my odds, Argyll? I give you five on the fop.
I will wager you but this: if MacGregor lives, you will acquit him of all he owes you.
Montrose
[laughs airily]
And if he loses?
I will pay his bill.
Montrose
[deathly serious]
...My factor will call upon Your Grace's factor.
Referee You are here on a matter of honor. I am here to see that you settle it honorably. There will be no back-stabbing, you will not throw your blades, nor will you use weapons other than those agreed. If quarter should be asked...
No quarter will be asked.
Or given.
Did you boys know there's going to be a new addition to the family?
Duncan MacGregor
Is it inside you?
Yes.
Duncan MacGregor
How does it get out?
Same road it got in.
You should have told me, Mary.
Oh Robert, I should have but I could not. You were right.
No, you were right. I must have my own way too often. I should have packed my pride and given Montrose his way!
No, Robert!
And all this has come on us. Craigrostan would still be ours, Alasdair and Coll would be alive...
And wrong would have been done you!
And what about the wrong done you? Wrong past bearing.
No, not past bearing! Not past bearing. Not if I have my Robert, and he has himself. And you would not, not if you had done a lesser man's bidding.
[Robert is silent]
"Honor is the gift a man gives himself." You told our boys that. Would you have stolen from yourself that which makes you Robert Roy MacGregor?
[Argyll refuses Mary's initial pleas for help]
Your Grace, Robert finds himself in this position for taking Your Grace's part.
My part? What cause had he to do that? And in what manner?
He refused to bear false witness against you, when the Marquis asked him to say that you were a Jacobite, to slander your name at court.
Montrose asked this of him?
In remission of this debt. But Robert refused.
I did not know your husband bore me such goodwill.
Indeed, Your Grace, I think he favors you no more than any other great man. "As wolves at lambing," that is his word for you all. Robert refused, not for Your Grace, but for his own honor, which he values above his own family, his kin and his clan, and for which I have oft chided him. But were he otherwise, he would not be Robert Roy MacGregor. Robert would not approve of my coming here to ask you for help, nor come himself if he were here. [stands] But I have no choice, unless I give him up entire to his enemies. And though I love his honor, it is but a moon-cast shadow to the love I bear him. By the grace of God, I have his child inside me and I will have a father for it.
You do your man no dishonor, Mary. Faith, he is a man much blessed by fortune.
I love the bones of you, Robert McGregor, but you take too much to heart that canna' be helped.
Love is a dung hill, Betty, and I am but a **** that climbs upon it to crow.
To these men, the truth is but a lie undiscovered.