2nd most-quoted character in The Wicker Man (1973): in 8 of its 18 quotes
Most scenes with: Sergeant Neil Howie (5)
Do sit down, Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent.
Lord Summerisle I think I could turn and live with animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one of them kneels to another or to his own kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one of them is respectable or unhappy, all over the earth. (quoting section 32 of Walt Whitman's poem "Song of Myself")
Lord Summerisle Animals are fine, but their acceptability is limited. A small child is even better, but not nearly as effective as the right kind of adult.
Lord Summerisle Afternoon Sergeant Howie. I trust the sight of the young people refreshes you.
No sir, it does not refresh me.
Your lordship seems strangely... unconcerned.
Lord Summerisle I am confident your suspicions are wrong, Sergeant. We do not commit murder here. We are a deeply religious people.
Religious? With ruined churches, no ministers, no priests... and children dancing naked!
Lord Summerisle They do love their divinity lessons.
But they are... a-are naked!
Lord Summerisle Well, naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on.
What religion can they possibly be learning jumping over bonfires?
Lord Summerisle Parthenogenesis.
What?
Lord Summerisle Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtless say in her assiduous way, reproduction without sexual union.
Oh, what is all this? I mean, you've got fake biology, fake religion... Sir, have these children never heard of Jesus?
Lord Summerisle Himself the son of a virgin, impregnated, I believe, by a ghost.
But what of the true God, to whose Glory, churches and monasteries have been built on these islands for generations past? Now sir, what of Him?
Lord Summerisle He's dead. He can't complain. He had His chance and in modern parlance, "blew it."
He brought you up to be a pagan!
Lord Summerisle A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
No matter what you do, you can't change the fact that I believe in the life eternal, as promised to us by our Lord, Jesus Christ. [shouted] I believe in the life eternal, as promised to us by our Lord, Jesus Christ!
Lord Summerisle That is good, for believing what you do, we confer upon you a rare gift, these days - a martyr's death. You will not only have life eternal, but you will sit with the saints among the elect. Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.
Dr. Wilbur Wonka
Count Dooku
Saruman the White
Pastor Galswells
King Haggard
Francisco Scaramanga
Saruman the White
Count Dooku
