5th most-quoted character in Watership Down (1978): in 9 of its 58 quotes
Most scenes with: Bigwig (3), Campion (3)
Scenes with General Woundwort
9 scenes
General Woundwort Your name?
General Woundwort I'll be frank with you. You're safe here. Well, get on with it!
Sir, several of us propose an expedition for...a new warren. Somewhere else.
General Woundwort A new warren?! Out of the question!
Oh, but you don't understand. The system is breaking down.
General Woundwort Explain that.
Some of us can't produce litters; we're overcrowded.
General Woundwort I want no further discussion about it!
We'll go as far as you like!
General Woundwort Here or anywhere else!
I... [she is approached threateningly by Captain Campion] Thank you, sir. [leaves]
General Woundwort Campion, have her watched.
The new officer, sir. He's gone.
General Woundwort Bigwig?
He's wounded Chervil, taken a crowd of the Mark with him.
General Woundwort Embleer Frith! I'll blind him. I'LL BLIND HIM!
General Woundwort [Confronting Bigwig leading a mass defection of Efrafans]
Bigwig, you traitorous...! [to a subordinate] Captain, get this miserable group back to their Marks. I'll settle you myself, Bigwig. There's no need to take you back.
Come on and try, you cracked-brain slave driver!
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! KAH, KAH, KAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! [swoops down and attacks Woundwort]
General Woundwort Get away! Blast you! Get away, you damn white bird!
General Woundwort You were one of those on the riverbank. Did Bigwig send you?
I'm a friend of Bigwig's.
General Woundwort What was left unfinished on the riverbank will be finished now.
It would be better for both of us if we could come to terms.
General Woundwort Terms?... Very well. These are my terms. Hand over all the deserters immediately.
We couldn't agree to that. But I can suggest something better, for both of us--
General Woundwort [dangerous]
You're in no position to bargain.
We shouldn't be fighting each other. We have enough enemies as it is. Perhaps we should be together. A joining of free, independent warrens.
General Woundwort [considers this]
Ah, I have no time for this nonsense!
General Woundwort No. [to Hazel] You take back our terms. And you tell your chief, Bigwig, that if he and Hyzenthlay and the others aren't waiting outside when I come for them, I'll tear out every throat in the place!
[After they've been fighting]
I told you once that I was trying to impress you... I hope I have.
General Woundwort And I told you I would kill you myself! There's no white bird here, Bigwig!
General Woundwort Why throw your life away?
General Woundwort Come out!
My chief has told me to defend this run.
General Woundwort [Stunned]
Your ... chief?
[Campion and the other Efrafans see the dog that Hazel and the others have unleashed on them]
Run! Run for your lives! Run!
General Woundwort [Woundwort emerges from the hole and sees his soldiers fleeing at the sight of the dog]
Come back! Come back, you fools!
General Woundwort Come back! Come back and fight! Dogs aren't dangerous!
[the dog drops a dead Efrafan and then comes after Woundwort, who lunges]
General Woundwort [after Kehaar attacks him]
Get away, you damned white bird!
General Woundwort Come back! Come back, you fools! Come back! Come back and fight! Dogs aren't dangerous!
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