Peachy Carnehan Blast! [Carnehan realizes he has just pick-pocketed a fellow Freemason's watch]
Most-quoted character in The Man who would be King (1975): in 23 of its 36 quotes
Most scenes with: Daniel Dravot (5)
Danny's only a man. But he can break wind at both ends simultaneous — which is more, I reckon, than any god can do.
More lines from Peachy Carnehan
11 quotes Peachy Carnehan Peachy Carnehan Keep looking at me. It helps to keep my soul from flying off.
Peachy Carnehan Now, the problem is, how to divide five Afghans from three mules and have two Englishmen left over.
Peachy Carnehan They've twigged it Danny, you've had it!
Peachy Carnehan We've got to brass it out, Danny. Danny brass it out! Bags of swank!
Peachy Carnehan Conductor: All Aboard!
Peachy Carnehan Indian passenger:Mr Clutterbury Das...failed entrance examination..Calcutta University, 1863..Writer of correspondence...for the illiterate genera Public
Peachy Carnehan Indian:Thank you Sir
Peachy Carnehan Indian:Thank you Sir {Peachy throws Das out of the door)
Peachy Carnehan Dravit: Mulvaney...that loudmouthed Mick from the Black Tyrone! Private Mulvaney!Come to attention when I am addressing You! Slope arms!Preent!March!Mark time!At the double!
Peachy Carnehan Officer"Coproral of the guard! take three menr and put private Mulvaney under arrest!Bloody man's Drunk again!
Scenes with Peachy Carnehan
11 scenesBut how many men have been were we've been.. ... and seen what we've seen?
Everything's all right then.
District Commissioner It would have been wiser if you had both gone home at the end of your army service.
Peachy Home to what? A porter's uniform outside a restaurant and tanner tips from belching civilians for closing cab doors on them and their blowzy women?
Not for us, thank you! Not after watching Afghans come howling down out of the hills and taking battle field command when all the officers had copped it!
Peachy Well said Brother Dravot!
District Commissioner There may be no criminal charges against you, but I'll see these files reach Calcutta with the recommendation that you be deported as political undesirables! Detriments to the Dignity of the Empire and the Izzat of the Raj!
Peachy Detriments you call us? Detriments? Well I want to remind you it was detriments like us that built this bloody Empire and the Izzat of the bloody Raj! Hats on! About turn! By the left, quick march!
Peachy, in your opinion, have our lives been misspent?
Peachy Well, that depends on how you look at it. I wouldn’t say the world’s a better place for our having lived in it.
No, hardly that.
Peachy Nobody's gonna weep their eyes out at our demise.
And who'd want them to anyway?
Peachy And we haven't many good deeds to our credit.
None. None to brag about.
Peachy But how many men have been where we've been ... and seen what we've seen?
Bloody few and that's a fact!
Peachy Why, even now, I wouldn't change places with the viceroy himself...if it meant giving up my memories...
Billy Fish He wants to know if you are gods?
Peachy Not gods — Englishmen. Which is the next best thing.
[admiring Roxanne, while a worried Peachy looks on]
Just looking, Peachy. There's such a thing as admiring beauty for its own sake.
Peachy Being only human, one thing leads to another.
Peachy Billy Fish, mount the mule and ride! There's a chance you'll make it!
Billy Fish Gurkha foot soldier, not cavalry! Rifleman Majendra Bahadur Gurung wishing you many good lucks! [Draws kukri and charges the mob alone] AYO-O-O GURKHALI-I-I!
Peachy, I'm heartily ashamed for gettin' you killed instead of going home rich like you deserved to, on account of me bein' so bleedin' high and bloody mighty. Can you forgive me?
Peachy That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance.
Everything's all right then.
Peachy may I? riding in this ashcart is like being Kicked by a mule every 10 Minuites:
Peachy Out of the window, Banu
Peachy Outside, you inky-fingered thief! I hope you break your neck
Rudyard Kipling You might have killed him
Rudyard Kipling But why?
Peachy I caught him stealing your watch
Rudyard Kipling My watch...I say it is my watch! Well! Im much obliged to you Mr..?
Peachy Carnehan Where are you heading for?
Rudyard Kipling Jodhpur.
Peachy Carnehan Will you return on this line?
Rudyard Kipling In 10 days.
Peachy Carnehan Can you make it eight? I have a message for a man......travelling through Marwar Junction on the 24th. He expects to meet but I have urgent business.
Peachy ...Suppose I was to ask you, as a stranger going to the West, to seek for that which was lost - what would you say then?
Kipling ...I should answer, where do you come from?
Peachy From the East, and I am hoping that you will give my message on the square for the sake of the widow’s son.
Kipling ...Which lodge do you hail from?
Peachy Traveling Lodge 3276, Fore and Fit. The Queen’s Own Royal Loyal Light Infantry. Regimental District 329A.
Kipling (satisfied)
To whom is the message?
Peachy Daniel Dravot.
Kipling Dravot.
Peachy A big man with long gray sideboards. A great swell. You'll find him in a first-class compartment.Don't be afraid. Slip the window down and say, "Peachy's gone south for the week."
Kipling "Peachy's gone south for the week."
Peachy - Yes, and he'll tumble. Well, I'll be getting off now before we reach the station.
Kipling By the way, Brother Carnehan..I missed my watch in the station at Lahore...before boarding the train.
Peachy How was I to know you were a Mason?
District Commissioner I have your records before me. There's everything in them, from smuggling to swindling to receiving stolen goods to bare-faced blackmail.
Peachy Sir, I resent the accusation of blackmail. It is blackmail to obtain money by threats of publishing information *in* a newspaper. But what blackmail is there in accepting a small retainer for keeping it *out* of a newspaper?
District Commissioner And how did you propose to keep it out?
Peachy By telling the editor what I know about his sister, and a certain government official in these parts.
[Referring to Kipling, the journalist present]
Let him put *that* in his paper, if he has need of news.
District Commissioner It would have been wiser if you had both gone home at the end of your army service.
Peachy Home to what? A porter's uniform outside a restaurant and tanner tips from belching civilians for closing cab doors on them and their blowzy women?
Not for us, thank you! Not after watching Afghans come howling down out of the hills and taking battle field command when all the officers had copped it!
Peachy Well said Brother Dravot!
District Commissioner There may be no criminal charges against you, but I'll see these files reach Calcutta with the recommendation that you be deported as political undesirables! Detriments to the Dignity of the Empire and the Izzat of the Raj!
Peachy Detriments you call us? Detriments? Well I want to remind you it was detriments like us that built this bloody Empire and the Izzat of the bloody Raj! Hats on! About turn! By the left, quick march!
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