The Bold Caballero (1936)

Robert Livingston: Don Diego Vega, Zorro

Quotes 

• Don Diego Vega : If this be the governor, then angels have turned politicians.

• Commandante Sebastian Golle : What's she want here?

  Don Diego Vega : For breakfast, a priest to bury her father. For lunch, Zorro's head on a pikestaff.

  Commandante Sebastian Golle : She does, eh? Thinks she can give me orders? I'll get my hands on her and govern her with a lash.

  Don Diego Vega : Bravo. There's no more bracing treat than beating women. Of course, it will cost you your head.

  Commandante Sebastian Golle : Oh, what?

  Don Diego Vega : The queen is her aunt. And the queen hates having her nieces flogged by the soldiery.

• Don Diego Vega : That horse killed a man.

  Lady Isabella Palma : All the more reason for a woman to master it. Bring the beast to me.

  Don Diego Vega : No, I beg of you, don't break your neck. I have important matters to discuss with you. Your marriage...

  Lady Isabella Palma : Marriage? To you, I presume? If you don't mind, I'll break my neck.

• Zorro : Well met, father.

  The Priest : God's blessing on the meeting.

• Don Diego Vega : Father, the day we've prayed and planned for is at hand. Never again will the peóns be enslaved for taxes.

  The Priest : Our God be praised.

  Don Diego Vega : The commandante's rule is over. We have a most wise, a most lovely, and a most beautifully spoiled governor.

• [the Commandante lashes his whip at Don Diego] 

  Don Diego Vega : Mercy! What have I done?

  Commandante Sebastian Golle : Nothing. That's just to keep my hand in incase I have to lash the life out of some fool who would betray me.