Stewart Granger credited as playing...
Rudolf Rassendyll • King Rudolf V
- King Rudolf V: I like you. You're a good fellow. Oh, you're English, but you're a good fellow. I want to drink a toast to you.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I know my clothes are a little conservative, but we English always dress as if we're going to a funeral when we're on a holiday.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] I probably looked like a prize idiot and talked like one, too.
- Princess Flavia: You're too modest. You really looked and acted like a King today.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Oh, thank you.
- Princess Flavia: It was delightfully unexpected.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Oh.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] Well, I think everything went off very well, don't you? For a coronation, I mean, that is, not that a coronation shouldn't go well. Provided the king puts in an appearance suitably dressed and suitably rehearsed.
- Princess Flavia: And suitably sober.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: And suitably sober! Yes, I was hoping you would notice that.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I was hoping that our skeleton was safe at home in our family cupboard.
- Fritz von Tarlenheim: Some skeletons are prodigious travelers.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: But surely, no woman in her right senses would prefer the Duke to you.
- Rupert of Hentzau: Women are never in their right senses, thank goodness!
- King Rudolf V: You must forgive me if I seem a little slow, but it's a bit early in the day to see double - even for me.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I hope your trout take as much interest in me as you do. I shan't be able to land them fast enough.
- King Rudolf V: I propose a toast.
- Man: Here here!
- Fritz von Tarlenheim: Another toast!
- King Rudolf V: A toast to... have we anybody left?
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Your brother Michael, perhaps?
- King Rudolf V: We drink to Michael in vinegar, my friend, not in good wine.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Before we go any further, I must tell you I'm prepared to give you a chance to escape - your thoroughly well-deserved end - on the condition that you yourself return the prisoner of Zenda to me alive.
- King Rudolf V: What are you doing here, cousin?
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I must admit to being guilty of the same offense as our mutual ancestor, Your Majesty.
- King Rudolf V: And what was that?
- Rudolf Rassendyll: Fishing in forbidden waters.
- Col. Zapt: You have a duty, Your Majesty.
- King Rudolf V: Duty, duty. On my last night of freedom?
- Col. Zapt: I question your freedom to drink yourself into a condition in which you'll not be fit to be crowned.
- King Rudolf V: I question your right to address me in that manner.
- Col. Zapt: I served your father in...
- King Rudolf V: I question your right to bring my father into this.
- Princess Flavia: Bless them. They're with you heart and soul.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] Me? It was you they were cheering. I felt like cheering you too when I first saw you.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] By the way, among my other failings, I've rather neglected you, haven't I?
- Princess Flavia: Two picture post cards in three years, I think.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: To think, all this time you've been changing into the loveliest princess in Europe. No, the loveliest girl in Europe.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] I had a queer feeling that something might go wrong.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: [impersonating King Rudolf V] I'm crowned king, I meet the loveliest, the most beautiful woman.
- Princess Flavia: Well, that isn't what you used to say. You used to call me "that clumsy little scarecrow."
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I did?
- Princess Flavia: Yes.
- Rudolf Rassendyll: I should've been horsewhipped.
- Princess Flavia: Those were my very words.