Highlander - The Series Quotes
Richie: Did Darius ever change you?
Duncan: Yeah, I guess he did. I was born of a warrior people. When war came I chose sides like most men. I fought. I killed.
Duncan: Yeah, I guess he did. I was born of a warrior people. When war came I chose sides like most men. I fought. I killed.
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[Flashback to Waterloo, 1815]
Darius: You shouldn't be taking part in this tragedy.
Duncan: I was raised a warrior. I choose battles I believe to be just.
Darius: Oh, I'm sure. You're quite loyal to your convictions and compatriots... But I wonder what these (dead) men think about that, about convictions and compatriotism now?
Darius: You shouldn't be taking part in this tragedy.
Duncan: I was raised a warrior. I choose battles I believe to be just.
Darius: Oh, I'm sure. You're quite loyal to your convictions and compatriots... But I wonder what these (dead) men think about that, about convictions and compatriotism now?
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[Duncan's thoughts as he prepares for battle]
Hope doesn't conquer a superior adversary. So why do I hope to beat Grayson? Why do I think that a good life will protect me from an evil one? What power can I draw from this thing, this hope?
Hope doesn't conquer a superior adversary. So why do I hope to beat Grayson? Why do I think that a good life will protect me from an evil one? What power can I draw from this thing, this hope?
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Victor Paulus: You've saved my life again. Why are you... who are you?
Duncan: I'm a friend of Darius.
Victor: You didn't learn this (fighting) from Darius.
Duncan: I wasn't much of a student.
Duncan: I'm a friend of Darius.
Victor: You didn't learn this (fighting) from Darius.
Duncan: I wasn't much of a student.
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Darius: I wasn't always a priest, you know. When I was a young man the first thing you had to do when introduced to a woman was compliment her father's horse. (Richie looks doubtful) Well, that probably doesn't help you.
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Duncan: It's a good job, huh?
Tessa Noël: Great job.
Duncan: Great. I like being kept.
Tessa: Kept?
Duncan: Yeah, I mean, hang out on the barge, catch up on my reading, while you bring home the bacon.
Tessa: Barge, what barge?
Duncan: Oh I forgot to tell you about the barge. No self-respecting museum curator would live anywhere else.
Tessa: So I slave away all day while you sunbathe on a barge. Is that it?
Duncan: Yeah, but just think of how ... rested I'll be. He he he...
Tessa Noël: Great job.
Duncan: Great. I like being kept.
Tessa: Kept?
Duncan: Yeah, I mean, hang out on the barge, catch up on my reading, while you bring home the bacon.
Tessa: Barge, what barge?
Duncan: Oh I forgot to tell you about the barge. No self-respecting museum curator would live anywhere else.
Tessa: So I slave away all day while you sunbathe on a barge. Is that it?
Duncan: Yeah, but just think of how ... rested I'll be. He he he...
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[Flashback to about 1800]
Baron Deshields: Absinthe?
Kuyler: From the Luchessi family. None better in the whole of France.
Deshields: No, thank you. Madness and death are not things to which I aspire.
Kuyler: Who wants to live forever?
Baron Deshields: Absinthe?
Kuyler: From the Luchessi family. None better in the whole of France.
Deshields: No, thank you. Madness and death are not things to which I aspire.
Kuyler: Who wants to live forever?
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Duncan MacLeod: Do you have any, uh, any absinthe?
storekeeper: It is against the law to sell absinthe.
Duncan: (displays money) Well, uh, to connoissuers... (more money) true men of discretion... (more money) such things can be made unimportant.
shopkeeper: I wish I could help you.
Duncan: Me too... (more money)
shopkeeper: Who sent you here?
Duncan: A friend whose tastes I share.
storekeeper: It is against the law to sell absinthe.
Duncan: (displays money) Well, uh, to connoissuers... (more money) true men of discretion... (more money) such things can be made unimportant.
shopkeeper: I wish I could help you.
Duncan: Me too... (more money)
shopkeeper: Who sent you here?
Duncan: A friend whose tastes I share.
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Kuyler: Incidentally, I owe you an apology. Anthony was very sloppy. I killed him for you.
Duncan: You're mad, Kuyler.
Kuyler: Maybe. Maybe I'm just trying to excel at what I do. Didn't you ever want to be the best at something?
Duncan: Murder means nothing to you?
Kuyler: On the contrary, it means everything.
Duncan: You're mad, Kuyler.
Kuyler: Maybe. Maybe I'm just trying to excel at what I do. Didn't you ever want to be the best at something?
Duncan: Murder means nothing to you?
Kuyler: On the contrary, it means everything.
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Kuyler: Do you know how many Mortals I've killed over the years?
Duncan: I'm sure you do.
Kuyler: I've kept a book. 2760. Now I don't just think I'm bragging, but, I'm the greatest assassin in all of history. Of course, there have been men responsible for more deaths, but none of them killed so many, so close.
Duncan: I don't think there are going to be any more entries in your book.
Duncan: I'm sure you do.
Kuyler: I've kept a book. 2760. Now I don't just think I'm bragging, but, I'm the greatest assassin in all of history. Of course, there have been men responsible for more deaths, but none of them killed so many, so close.
Duncan: I don't think there are going to be any more entries in your book.
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Darius: Why are you here?
Xavier St. Cloud: I've come to confess. Same as everyone else. Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.
Darius: I will not hear this.
Xavier: You are a priest, and I am a sinner. Isn't that how it goes? Or have you reinvented the position?
Darius: Why do this? It means nothing to you.
Xavier: Because it means everything to you.
Xavier St. Cloud: I've come to confess. Same as everyone else. Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.
Darius: I will not hear this.
Xavier: You are a priest, and I am a sinner. Isn't that how it goes? Or have you reinvented the position?
Darius: Why do this? It means nothing to you.
Xavier: Because it means everything to you.
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Dalou: Parisians don't mind a little larceny now and then. If it's done with ingenuity, no one gets hurt.
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Xavier: I'm just trying to earn a few francs. After all, a man's gotta live.
Duncan: Not necessarily.
[They fight]
Duncan: Not necessarily.
[They fight]
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Darius: War in the abstract is a great intellectual puzzle, but in reality it's all blood and tears.
Duncan MacLeod: Then why make it into a game?
Darius: To deny what I was is to deny what I am.
Duncan MacLeod: Then why make it into a game?
Darius: To deny what I was is to deny what I am.
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Grace Chandel: God, I get so tired of it sometimes. We go on and everything around us dies.
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Tessa Noël: Do you still love her?
Duncan: No.
Tessa: That's all that needs to be said. She's your friend, and she's been hurt. You'll help her. I'd expect you to do no less.
Duncan: No.
Tessa: That's all that needs to be said. She's your friend, and she's been hurt. You'll help her. I'd expect you to do no less.
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Grace: The truth is, you and I were too different.
Duncan: Maybe if I'd stayed.
Grace: You would've been unhappy. So I let you go. My wandering knight, charging off to right all the wrongs of the world.
Duncan: Maybe if I'd stayed.
Grace: You would've been unhappy. So I let you go. My wandering knight, charging off to right all the wrongs of the world.
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[At her husband's grave]
Grace: You'd think I'd learn how to handle this, wouldn't you. The strange thing is, every time it happens I tell myself I won't go through it again. I swear to myself I won't fall in love with a mortal. As if love were something you had any control over. You and Mac have something good. I envy you.
Tessa: Grace, about you and Mac...
Grace: We had a moment, that was all. Though I wanted it to be more. Please don't hold it against me.
Tessa: It's funny, but I don't. It would take me several lifetimes to find out everything in Duncan's past. I know there have been others. But I never thought I would meet one of them. And here you are.
Grace: You'd think I'd learn how to handle this, wouldn't you. The strange thing is, every time it happens I tell myself I won't go through it again. I swear to myself I won't fall in love with a mortal. As if love were something you had any control over. You and Mac have something good. I envy you.
Tessa: Grace, about you and Mac...
Grace: We had a moment, that was all. Though I wanted it to be more. Please don't hold it against me.
Tessa: It's funny, but I don't. It would take me several lifetimes to find out everything in Duncan's past. I know there have been others. But I never thought I would meet one of them. And here you are.
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Tessa Noël: You don't look like someone who would worry much about forgiveness.
Richie: Tess, you do know that they all carry big swords with them. Just a thought.
Amanda: You've always had a taste for beautiful and spirited women, Duncan.
Tessa: And modest. Don't forget modest.
Duncan MacLeod: Time to go. It's been thrilling.
Amanda: It's been 65 years. A girl might think you're trying to avoid her.
Duncan: Now how could you think that? Goodbye, Amanda.
Richie: Tess, you do know that they all carry big swords with them. Just a thought.
Amanda: You've always had a taste for beautiful and spirited women, Duncan.
Tessa: And modest. Don't forget modest.
Duncan MacLeod: Time to go. It's been thrilling.
Amanda: It's been 65 years. A girl might think you're trying to avoid her.
Duncan: Now how could you think that? Goodbye, Amanda.
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[She sent him to prison, now he's escaped and has her helpless]
Zachary Blaine: Do you know what I missed most... was the feeling of a good, old fashioned Quickening. SShhhh!!
Amanda: Wait!
Zachary: No, after what you did to me, you can't come up with a reason good enough.
Amanda: I can give you ten million reasons, in American dollars.
Zachary: Funny, you'd think that would be enough. (prepares to kill her)
Amanda: I can give you the head of Duncan MacLeod!
Zachary Blaine: Do you know what I missed most... was the feeling of a good, old fashioned Quickening. SShhhh!!
Amanda: Wait!
Zachary: No, after what you did to me, you can't come up with a reason good enough.
Amanda: I can give you ten million reasons, in American dollars.
Zachary: Funny, you'd think that would be enough. (prepares to kill her)
Amanda: I can give you the head of Duncan MacLeod!
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Amanda: I gave up my life of crime, Duncan.
Duncan: That's what you said in Constantinople, 250 years ago.
Amanda: I succumbed to an impulse.
Duncan: I was nearly flayed alive when they came looking for you.
Amanda: But you got away. You always do.
Duncan: That's what you said in Constantinople, 250 years ago.
Amanda: I succumbed to an impulse.
Duncan: I was nearly flayed alive when they came looking for you.
Amanda: But you got away. You always do.
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Tessa: After all she's done to you, why do you care whether she's happy or not?
Duncan: I don't know, Tessa. She made me laugh when there weren't too many things to laugh about. Maybe that doesn't seem important, but those are the things I remember of her.
Tessa: She makes me feel like I have to compete with her. Maybe if I'd been a lady pirate or something....
Duncan: whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Richie, give us a moment, would you?
Richie: I was just leaving. [He leaves]
Duncan: Hey, listen to me young lady, she's no competition. Hmmm?
[They kiss]
Duncan: I don't know, Tessa. She made me laugh when there weren't too many things to laugh about. Maybe that doesn't seem important, but those are the things I remember of her.
Tessa: She makes me feel like I have to compete with her. Maybe if I'd been a lady pirate or something....
Duncan: whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Richie, give us a moment, would you?
Richie: I was just leaving. [He leaves]
Duncan: Hey, listen to me young lady, she's no competition. Hmmm?
[They kiss]
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Zachary: Why try to save her, MacLeod? She's betrayed you before.
Duncan: At least I'm smart enough to stay out of jail.
[They fight]
Duncan: At least I'm smart enough to stay out of jail.
[They fight]
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Duncan MacLeod: Joe? What's up?
Joe: You've got trouble.
Duncan: How come you never call with good news?
Joe: You've got trouble.
Duncan: How come you never call with good news?
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Duncan MacLeod: She (Tessa) was part of our lives, Richie. Never pretend she wasn't.
Richie: I don't! I keep waking up every morning...
Duncan: ...expecting her to be there. Get used to it, it won't be the last time it happens to you.
Richie: When does this start getting easier?
Duncan: It doesn't.
Richie: I don't! I keep waking up every morning...
Duncan: ...expecting her to be there. Get used to it, it won't be the last time it happens to you.
Richie: When does this start getting easier?
Duncan: It doesn't.
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Richie: I keep waiting to feel different. Like someone's going to tell me how to be, what to do.
Duncan: What were you expecting, a set of instructions?
Duncan: What were you expecting, a set of instructions?
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[Flashback to Ireland, 1920]
Annie Devlin: Why don't you stay? It will be a beautiful war.
Duncan: War is never beautiful, Annie. Leave with me. This will never end.
Annie: It will when we win. Or when there's no one left alive to fight.
Annie Devlin: Why don't you stay? It will be a beautiful war.
Duncan: War is never beautiful, Annie. Leave with me. This will never end.
Annie: It will when we win. Or when there's no one left alive to fight.
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[Referring to his fight with Annie]
Richie: I could have killed her, Mac. I mean, that's what I'm supposed to do, right?
Duncan: Sometimes.
Richie: I couldn't do it. I thought I could, but I couldn't. Maybe I'm just not cut out for this.
Duncan: You're still who you are, Richie. You don't change when you become Immortal, you just live longer. Hopefully.
Richie: Oh, boy, I'd say I got a lot to learn.
Duncan: You still have time.
[Duncan presents Richie with a sword]
Duncan: Take good care of it. Live with it. Make it part of you. Might be the only friend you have.
Richie: I could have killed her, Mac. I mean, that's what I'm supposed to do, right?
Duncan: Sometimes.
Richie: I couldn't do it. I thought I could, but I couldn't. Maybe I'm just not cut out for this.
Duncan: You're still who you are, Richie. You don't change when you become Immortal, you just live longer. Hopefully.
Richie: Oh, boy, I'd say I got a lot to learn.
Duncan: You still have time.
[Duncan presents Richie with a sword]
Duncan: Take good care of it. Live with it. Make it part of you. Might be the only friend you have.
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Duncan MacLeod: You know, there's a problem with thinking the strongest can take what they want.
Caanan: Yeah, what's that?
Duncan: There's always somebody stronger.
Caanan: Yeah, what's that?
Duncan: There's always somebody stronger.
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Amanda: You know, you won't let me change. You really expect me to steal, don't you?
Duncan MacLeod: I expect sharks to bite, too. Don't take it personally.
Duncan MacLeod: I expect sharks to bite, too. Don't take it personally.
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