Princess Fakzia: Barber, you are fortunate we are not in Ispahan or I would have... Hajji Baba: ...me flogged? That is your answer to all but flattery. You wish to silence everyone by threats. Is that what it is to be a princess? - John Derek (as Hajji Baba) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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Princess Fakzia: I will see you are amply rewarded. Osman Aga: I have an ancient prejudice against promises. - Thomas Gomez (as Osman Aga) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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Banah: Where are the others? They rot in the sun. When their ardor cools... Hajji Baba: ...Mine will increase with each passing day. - John Derek (as Hajji Baba) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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Caliph: Do you love my daughter? Hajji Baba: Love her? I am a barber's son. Caliph: Mohammed himself was not born a prince. And it is he who said, "The greatest power in the world is love." Nurel-Din's strength can crumble and fade away, but the power of love remains. I say to you, if you love my daughter, you have that power. Win her. - Donald Randolph (as Caliph) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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Chief Executioner's Aide: Surely someone as handsome as you has no trouble with the beauties. Hajji Baba: I have no trouble with - I have trouble getting to. - John Derek (as Hajji Baba) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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Chief Executioner's Aide: Why are you not satisfied to be like your father, Hajji? You are a good barber. Hajji Baba: True. But why, I ask myself, must I remain a barber? Take the sheik's chief favorite, Ismail asa Gul - is he better spoken than I? Chief Executioner's Aide: But he *is* the favorite. Hajji Baba: Well, then, the famous Lord Treasurer, who fills the king's coffers with gold, yet does not forget his own. What was he? The son of a grocer! - John Derek (as Hajji Baba) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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Hajji Baba: Complaints flow from your lips like water from the springs of Al Baqir. Princess Fakzia: But I am a princess and my skin is soft. I am not used to such hard ways. Hajji Baba: You are no princess as long as we are on this desert. - John Derek (as Hajji Baba) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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Hajji Baba: I thirst for adventure as some do for wine... especially if it's profitable. - John Derek (as Hajji Baba) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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Hajji Baba: Nay, laugh not. I may have the instruments of a barber, but I have the desires of a prince. - John Derek (as Hajji Baba) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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Hajji Baba: Once I thought she loved me. Osman Aga: Then take her! Hajji Baba: From Norel-Din? Osman Aga: Why not? Hajji Baba: He's a prince; a great and powerful prince. I-I am a barber. Osman Aga: Aw, I despair for you. Without courage, one can neither be a merchant nor a prince. - Thomas Gomez (as Osman Aga) in The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

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