Daniel Dravot That's the last of them Peachy, no more gods to burn.
2nd most-quoted character in The Man who would be King (1975): in 18 of its 36 quotes
Most scenes with: Peachy Carnehan (5)
In any place where they fight, a man who knows how to drill men can always be a King. We shall go to those parts and say to any King we find — "D'you want to vanquish your foes?' and we will show him how to drill men; for that we know better than anything else. Then we will subvert that King and seize his Throne and establish a Dynasty.
More lines from Daniel Dravot
12 quotes Daniel Dravot Daniel Dravot The more tribes, the more they'll fight, and the better for us.
Daniel Dravot [Wistfully observing dancing women]
Boil'em once or twice in hot water and they'll come out like chicken and ham! You wouldn't know them from the Gaietey Chorus!
Daniel Dravot [Lecturing his Er-Heb recruits while Billy Fish translates:]
Now listen to me, you benighted muckers! We're going to teach you soldiering, The world's noblest profession! When we're done with you, you'll be able to stand up and slaughter your foes like civilized men! But first, you will have to learn to march in step. And do the manual of arms without even having to think! Good soldiers don't think, they just obey! Do you suppose that if a man thought twice, he'd give his life for Queen and Country? Not bloody likely! He wouldn't go near the battlefield! One look at your foolish faces tells me that you're going to be crack troops. Ohhh him there with the five-and-a-half hat size has the makings of a bloody hero!
Daniel Dravot What's this? God's holy trousers!Tickets again?
Daniel Dravot He's gone south for the week. Did he say I'd give anything for this? I won't.
Daniel Dravot - Then why did you do it?
Daniel Dravot He said south, did he?
Daniel Dravot Then that'll be Degumber. Since you're Peachy's pal, I'll tell you. We're gonna put the screw on the rajah for what he did to his mother-in-law.
Daniel Dravot kIPLING:You mean you intend to blackmail him?You wouldn't get out alive! If they don't cut your throat, they'll poison you.
Daniel Dravot Both's been tried. Peachy and me don't kill easy!
Daniel Dravot By telling him we're correspondents for The Northern Star.
Scenes with Daniel Dravot
5 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.
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?
Daniel 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!
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!
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!
Daniel Peachy, in your opinion, have our lives been misspent?
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.
Daniel No, hardly that.
Nobody's gonna weep their eyes out at our demise.
Daniel And who'd want them to anyway?
And we haven't many good deeds to our credit.
Daniel None. None to brag about.
But how many men have been where we've been ... and seen what we've seen?
Daniel Bloody few and that's a fact!
Why, even now, I wouldn't change places with the viceroy himself...if it meant giving up my memories...
Daniel [admiring Roxanne, while a worried Peachy looks on]
Just looking, Peachy. There's such a thing as admiring beauty for its own sake.
Being only human, one thing leads to another.
Daniel 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?
That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance.
Daniel Everything's all right then.
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.
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?
By telling the editor what I know about his sister, and a certain government official in these parts.
Daniel [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.
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?
Daniel 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!
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!
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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