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Quotes from The African Queen (1951)

28 quotes
Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: [his stomach is growling] Ain't a thing I can do about it.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: [skitting Rose] Can you make a torpedo? Well do so Mr. Allnut.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Katharine Hepburn
Charlie Allnut: 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.
- Katharine Hepburn (as Rose Sayer) in The African Queen (1951)

Katharine Hepburn
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!
- Katharine Hepburn (as Rose Sayer) in The African Queen (1951)

Katharine Hepburn
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.
- Katharine Hepburn (as Rose Sayer) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: Let's go while the going's good.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: Never say die. That's my motto.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: Nobody in Africa, but yours truly, can get a good head of steam on the old African Queen.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: One thing in the world I hate: leeches. Filthy little devils.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: There ain't nothing so complicated as the inside of a torpedo.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)