Humphrey Bogart credited as playing...
Charlie Allnutt
- Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
- Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.
- Charlie Allnut: How'd you like it?
- Rose Sayer: Like it?
- Charlie Allnut: White water rapids!
- Rose Sayer: I never dreamed...
- Charlie Allnut: I don't blame you for being scared - not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of white water...
- Rose Sayer: I never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!
- Charlie Allnut: [exasperated and angry] Whose boat is this anyway? I asked you on board 'cause I was sorry for you on account of you losin' your brother and all. What you get for feelin' sorry for people... Well I ain't sorry no more, ya crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!
- Charlie Allnut: You know why did the chicken cross the road.
- Rose Sayer: [missing the joke] I beg your pardon.
- Charlie Allnut: Nevermind, miss.
- Charlie: It's a great thing to have a lady aboard with clean habits. It sets the man a good example. A man alone, he gets to living like a hog.
- [last lines]
- Charlie Allnutt: You all right, Mrs. Allnut?
- Rose Sayer: Wonderful, simply wonderful. And you, Mr. Allnut?
- Charlie Allnutt: Pretty good for an old married man.
- Rose Sayer: I'm all twisted around, Charlie? Which way is the East Shore?
- Charlie Allnutt: The way we're swimming, old girl.
- Charlie Allnutt: [singing] There was an old fisherman / Set sail from off Pimlico / To catch the bold picky / And the gay mackerel...
- Charlie Allnutt, Rose Sayer: [Rose joins in singing] But when he got off Pimlico / The wind did begin to blow...
- Charlie Allnut: I don't know why the Germans would want this God-forsaken place.
- Rose Sayer: God has not forsaken this place, Mr. Allnut, as my brother's presence here bears witness.
- Rose Sayer: Who do you think you are ordering me about?
- Charlie Allnut: I'm the captain, that's what!
- Charlie Allnut: Nobody in Africa, but yours truly, can get a good head of steam on the old African Queen.
- Charlie Allnut: [about the drinking water they'll get from the engine's radiator] Of course, it'll taste a little rusty, but we can't have everything, can we?
- Charlie Allnut: Fine specimen of a man, ain't I?
- Rose Sayer: You're the bravest man that ever lived. You just over-do, that's all. What you need is a few hours' sleep. There, now you're all comfortable. Go to sleep, dear. When you wake up we'll be on our way again.
- Charlie Allnut: Rosie?
- Rose Sayer: Yes, darling.
- Charlie Allnut: You want to know the truth, dont you? Even if we had all our strength we'd never get her off this mud. We're finished.
- Rose Sayer: I know it.
- Charlie Allnut: But Rosie, I'm not one bit sorry I came. What I mean is, it was worth it.
- [Charlie and Rose tread water after the Louisa sank when it struck one of the African Queen's torpedoes]
- Charlie Allnutt: Hey, what happened?
- Charlie Allnutt: We did it, Charlie! We did it!
- Rose Sayer: But how?
- [Rose points to the African Queen's name plate as it floats by]