Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Robert Mitchum: Charles
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Quotes
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Charles Shaughnessy : It's not a hangin' matter to be young... but it maybe should be a hangin' matter for a - man of middle age - to - try and steal the youth from a young girl. Especially, a man like me and a - girl like you. You were meant for the wide world, Rose. Not this place, not this. Me - I was born for it. It wouldn't do, Rose. I just know it wouldn't.
Rosy Ryan : So, you - you don't want me, then?
Charles Shaughnessy : [Leans to kiss Rose] Don't want you? Oh...
[They embrace]
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Thomas Ryan : [talking about the Easter Rebellion] If the Germans had an ounce of sense, they'd send us guns to use against the British!
Charles Shaughnessy : That's treason you're talking.
Thomas Ryan : And friends that are listening surely to God!
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Charles Shaughnessy : [Rose has professed her love to Charles] Rose, you're mistaking a penny mirror for the sun - do you not see that?
Rosy Ryan : I see you always digging a low pit for yourself - when you should be standing on a heap of pride.
Charles Shaughnessy : You coming in here and saying what you did just now is the only cause I've ever had for pride.
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Rosy Ryan : [after her affair with Doryan has become public] You're very kind to me today.
Charles Shaughnessy : Am I?
Rosy Ryan : Yes. Why?
Charles Shaughnessy : Am I not usually kind to you?
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Rosy Ryan : You enjoyed yourself in Dublin, then?
Charles Shaughnessy : Well, I did and I didn't. A conference of village school teachers, you know, is not exactly a...
Rosy Ryan : Bacchanalia?
Charles Shaughnessy : Bacchanalia, precisely.
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Charles Shaughnessy : Why don't you see, Rose, I only taught you about Byron and Beethoven and Captain Blood. I'm not one of them fellows, me self.
Rosy Ryan : I'm not daft, you know.
Charles Shaughnessy : But, you're terribly young.
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Charles Shaughnessy : You're a wonderful girl, Rose.
Rosy Ryan : No. No, I'm not.
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Rosy Ryan : You always think the best of people, don't you?
Charles Shaughnessy : Why not?
