Quotes from The African Queen (1951)

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Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: Well I ain't sorry for you no more, ya crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: What a time we had Rosie, what a time we had.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie Allnut: You know why did the chicken cross the road.
Rose Sayer: [missing the joke] I beg your pardon.
Charlie Allnut: Nevermind, miss.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie: All this fool talk about The Louisa. Goin' down the river...
Rose: What do you mean?
Charlie: I mean we ain't goin' to do nothin' of the sort.
Rose: Why, of course we're going! What an absurd idea!
Charlie: What an absurd idea! What an absurd idea! Lady, I may be a born fool, but you got ten absurd ideas to my one, an' don't you forget it!
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
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.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Humphrey Bogart
Charlie: We can't do that!
Rose: How do you know? You never tried it.
Charlie: Well, yeah, but I never tried shooting myself in the head neither.
- Humphrey Bogart (as Charlie Allnut) in The African Queen (1951)

Peter Bull
Captain of Louisa: By the authority granted to me by his Imperial Majestey Kaiser Wilhelm the Second I pronounce you man and wife - proceed with the execution.
- Peter Bull (as Captain of Louisa) in The African Queen (1951)

Peter Bull
Captain of Louisa: By the authority vested in me by Kaiser William II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution.
- Peter Bull (as Captain of Louisa) in The African Queen (1951)

Peter Bull
Captain of Louisa: I think I shall have to hang you twice.
- Peter Bull (as Captain of Louisa) in The African Queen (1951)

Katharine Hepburn
Rose Sayer: [after travelling through the rapids] Now that I've had a taste of it I don't wonder why you love boating.
- Katharine Hepburn (as Rose Sayer) in The African Queen (1951)

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