The Four Feathers Quotes
Abou Fatma: Are you a deserter?
Harry Faversham: Something like that. I was sent to fight and I ran away.
Abou Fatma: Why?
Harry Faversham: Why? I just... There are many reasons why. Mostly I was afraid.
Abou Fatma: [laughs] I found you halfdead crossing the desert alone. And you say you are afraid?
Harry Faversham: There's a different kind of fear. Why are you protecting me?
Abou Fatma: God put you in my way. I have no choice.
Harry Faversham: God? An Englishman... and a Christian? You must have done something terrible to offend him. [laughs]
Harry Faversham: Something like that. I was sent to fight and I ran away.
Abou Fatma: Why?
Harry Faversham: Why? I just... There are many reasons why. Mostly I was afraid.
Abou Fatma: [laughs] I found you halfdead crossing the desert alone. And you say you are afraid?
Harry Faversham: There's a different kind of fear. Why are you protecting me?
Abou Fatma: God put you in my way. I have no choice.
Harry Faversham: God? An Englishman... and a Christian? You must have done something terrible to offend him. [laughs]
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Harry Faversham: I've left the army. [Ethne laughs in disbelief]
Harry Faversham: No, Ethne, I have left the army.
Ethne: Why?
Harry Faversham: There was talk they might send us abroad. For a year or two. I didn't want to wait that long to get married.
Ethne: I would have waited. Or come with you. My mother did the same for my father.
Harry Faversham: Yes, I know, but it tisn't what I wnated for us. You're all that matters to me now.
Ethne: Where were they going to send you?
Harry Faversham: They weren't sure. [the church door opens and a delivery boy from the army gives Harry a package that contains three white feathers]
Ethne: [Picking up the feathers from the floor] Is this your friends' idea of a joke? What is it, Harry?
Harry Faversham: Feathers of cowardice. Yesterday we were informed that our regement would be shipping out to Sudan. That we would be sent to war.
Ethne: You don't know where they were sending you, you said it yourself. You did it for me. No one in their right mind could call you a coward. Especially not your friends. If there's been some kind of misunderstanding you have to clear it out. You have to go back to the regement and clear it out.
Harry Faversham: No, I can't.
Ethne: Then I will. I'll go see Trench, Willoughby and Castleton myself and tell them it's my fault you resigned. You did it for me.
Harry Faversham: It has nothing to do with you, Ethne!
Ethne: Then why?
Harry Faversham: I never wanted to join the army! I did it for my father. I thought I'd ser
Harry Faversham: No, Ethne, I have left the army.
Ethne: Why?
Harry Faversham: There was talk they might send us abroad. For a year or two. I didn't want to wait that long to get married.
Ethne: I would have waited. Or come with you. My mother did the same for my father.
Harry Faversham: Yes, I know, but it tisn't what I wnated for us. You're all that matters to me now.
Ethne: Where were they going to send you?
Harry Faversham: They weren't sure. [the church door opens and a delivery boy from the army gives Harry a package that contains three white feathers]
Ethne: [Picking up the feathers from the floor] Is this your friends' idea of a joke? What is it, Harry?
Harry Faversham: Feathers of cowardice. Yesterday we were informed that our regement would be shipping out to Sudan. That we would be sent to war.
Ethne: You don't know where they were sending you, you said it yourself. You did it for me. No one in their right mind could call you a coward. Especially not your friends. If there's been some kind of misunderstanding you have to clear it out. You have to go back to the regement and clear it out.
Harry Faversham: No, I can't.
Ethne: Then I will. I'll go see Trench, Willoughby and Castleton myself and tell them it's my fault you resigned. You did it for me.
Harry Faversham: It has nothing to do with you, Ethne!
Ethne: Then why?
Harry Faversham: I never wanted to join the army! I did it for my father. I thought I'd ser
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Jack Durrance: I suppose I'm going because you are going. There is no one I'd sooner trust my life with. You're all that matters.
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