Rob Roy (1995)

Liam Neeson: Rob Roy

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• Son : Father, will the MacGregors ever be kings again?

  Robert Roy MacGregor : All men with honor are kings. But not all kings have honor.

  Son : What is honor?

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Honor is...

  [Mary looking on] 

  Robert Roy MacGregor : what no man can give you and none can take away. Honor is a man's gift to himself.

  Son : Do women have it?

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Women are the heart of honor, and we cherish and protect it in them. You must never mistreat a woman, or malign a man, nor stand by and see another do so.

  Son : How do you know if you have it?

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Never worry on the getting of it. It grows in you, and speaks to you. All you need do is listen.

• Mary MacGregor : Robert, there is more. I am carrying a child and I do not know who is the father."

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Ach, Mary...

  Mary MacGregor : I could not kill it, husband.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : It's not the child that needs killing.

• [on their way to Robert's duel with Cunningham] 

  Duke of Argyll : Tell me, MacGregor, is this matter of honor concerning your wife?

  Robert Roy MacGregor : It's concerning me, Your Grace. Mr. Cunningham and I have matters outstanding.

  Duke of Argyll : She will not thank you for making her a widow, honor or no.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Perhaps you'd like to wager a sum for her maintenance.

  Duke of Argyll : Well, if it will help you die any the easier, I'll lay twenty guineas for her.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Fifty would go further.

  Duke of Argyll : By God, you have a style to you, MacGregor! I like that!

• 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...

  Robert Roy MacGregor : No quarter will be asked.

  Archibald Cunningham : Or given.

• [Robert asks the Duke to arrange a duel with Cunningham] 

  Duke of Argyll : MacGregor!

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Sir?

  Duke of Argyll : He will kill you, MacGregor. I would lose money I wagered otherwise.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Your lordship has my permission to profit what way he will.

• Robert Roy MacGregor : Do you know how fine you are to me, Mary MacGregor?

  Mary MacGregor : And you to me.

• Robert Roy MacGregor : You should have told me, Mary.

  Mary MacGregor : Oh Robert, I should have but I could not. You were right.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : No, you were right. I must have my own way too often. I should have packed my pride and given Montrose his way!

  Mary MacGregor : No, Robert!

  Robert Roy MacGregor : And all this has come on us. Craigrostan would still be ours, Alasdair and Coll would be alive...

  Mary MacGregor : And wrong would have been done you!

  Robert Roy MacGregor : And what about the wrong done you? Wrong past bearing.

  Mary MacGregor : 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] 

  Mary MacGregor : "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?

• Robert Roy MacGregor : Did you boys know there's going to be a new addition to the family?

  Duncan MacGregor : Is it inside you?

  Mary MacGregor : Yes.

  Duncan MacGregor : How does it get out?

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Same road it got in.

• Duke of Argyll : I will know who to wager on, the next time.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : [utterly mirthless chuckle]  I hope Your Grace will live so long.

• Archibald Cunningham : 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.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : You're a thief, a murderer and a violator of women.

  Archibald Cunningham : Aah... I had hoped you'd come to me long since on that score.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : If I had known earlier you would have been dead sooner.

  Archibald Cunningham : 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...

• Robert Roy MacGregor : If it's a boy, call him Robert. If a lass, name her after my love, Mary McGregor.

• Will Guthrie : I hear you back-stabbed Tam Sibbald.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : Were you and Tam kin?

  Will Guthrie : Near enough. I shagged his sister.

  Killearn : [whispered aside]  Likely so did Tam.

• Robert Roy MacGregor : What passes for honor with me is likely the same as what passes with Your Lordship. When my word is given, it is good.

  Montrose : Well, you are to be congratulated on such cheaply-bought nobility.

• Montrose : You are damned, MacGregor. Damned to hell.

  Robert Roy MacGregor : [laughing]  Come, Your Lordship. Leave the Devil some work. You've done enough for one day.

• Robert Roy MacGregor : There best be no skullduggery here, Killearn. Alan McDonald stands under my protection.

  Killearn : [sarcastic]  Well, that's a great comfort to us all, I must say. What with a thousand pounds at risk.

• Robert Roy MacGregor : [on the interest owed to Montrose]  Aye, that's the price of cash.

• Robert Roy MacGregor : [first spoken lines]  How far?

  MacDonald : A day. Maybe two.

• Mary : What's gnawing on you, Robert?

  Rob Roy : I've made up my mind to borrow money from Montrose to buy cattle at Creiff market and sell at Carlisle.

  Mary : How much money?

  Rob Roy : £1,000. Believe me, Mary, it will turn profit. £6 in Creiff is £12 in Carlisle. And I know cattle. I can drive them faster and deliver them fatter than any man in the kingdom.

  Mary : Why would the Marquis of Montrose lend a McGregor £1,000?

  Rob Roy : For profit, what else? It's an investment as much as a loan.

  Mary : So it's business partners you are now, you and the Marquis.

  Rob Roy : Keep that tongue for your boys, woman. I didn't tell you my mind to be flayed for it.

  Mary : You know I love the bones of you, Robert McGregor. But you take too much to heart that cannot be helped. It must be helped.

  Rob Roy : All right, but not today.