Michael Collins Movie Quotes
[Michael Collins arrives at the ceremony to take down the British flag]
British officer
You're seven minutes late, Mr. Collins.
Michael Collins
You've kept us waiting 700 years. You can have your seven minutes.
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Cathal Brugha
The Minister is as usual exceeding his brief!
Michael Collins
And what is my brief, Cathal?
Cathal Brugha
Intelligence.
Michael Collins
Bullshit! I'm Minister for Gun-Running, Daylight Robbery, and General Mayhem.
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Michael Collins
I hate them for making hate necessary, and I'll do what I can to end it.
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Harry Boland
What happens next time?
Michael Collins
Next time, Harry, we won't play by their rules. We'll invent our own!
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Kitty Kiernan
Is it true, Mick, that all of the women in America wear trousers?
Michael Collins
Absolutely! Shameless hussies, the lot o' them.
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Michael Collins
I would plead with every person here: Make me a scapegoat if you will, call me a traitor, if you will; But please, let's save the country. The alternative to this treaty is a war which no one in this room can even contemplate. If the price of peace, if the price of freedom is the blackening of my name, I would gladly pay it.
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Michael Collins
There was a man in west Cork who proposed to five sisters.
Kitty Kiernan
I suppose they all refused.
Michael Collins
Then the father died and he proposed to the mother.
Kitty Kiernan
Are you trying to tell me something?
Michael Collins
I was working up to a proposal.
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Eamon de Valera
The Irish people established the Irish Republic. It can only be disestablished by the Irish people.
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Michael Collins
I want peace and quiet. I want it so much I'd die for it.
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Michael Collins
We have a weapon more powerful... than any in the whole arsenal of the British Empire! That weapon... is our refusal!
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Soames
The problem with the Irish is that they'll sing at the drop of a hat, but ask them to talk and they won't.
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Joe O'Reilly
You know what he'd say if he saw you right now, Kitty? Get up off the parliamentary side of your ass and put a bit of color in your face.
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[as the British flag comes down]
Michael Collins
So that's what all the bother was about.
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[first lines]
Joe O'Reilly
[dictating a letter]
You've got to think of him the way he was... He was what the times demanded. And life without him seems impossible. But he's dead. And life is possible. He made it possible.
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Eamon de Valera
They call us murderers.
Michael Collins
War *is* murder! Sheer, bloody murder! Had you been here the past year, you'd know that!
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Soames
Sufficient unto the day the evil thereof, hey boy?
Ned Broy
Yes, sir.
Soames
Or is it Broy?
Ned Broy
Broy, sir. Good night, sir.
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Michael Collins
Give *us* the future, we've had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in , to grow in, to love.
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[repeated line]
Joe O'Reilly
Jesus Christ, Mick, where the hell have you been?
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Lincoln prison chaplain
I can't understand your politics, but I appreciate your integrity.
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Eamon de Valera
[running away from the police while disguised as a prostitute]
All I'm missing is the high heels!
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Michael Collins
There is one weapon that the British cannot take away from us: we can ignore them.
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Michael Collins
If they shut me up, who will take my place?
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Michael Collins
Once I start, they'll be no stopping me.
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[Collins and his men have just intercepted an intelligence report from the Royal Irish Constabulary]
Michael Collins
Jesus, these bastards know more about us than our own mothers.
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Harry Boland
Oh, did you hear there's a butterfly been seen in West Clare? Its wings are green, white, and yellow.
Michael Collins
Oh, God!
Harry Boland
The lads say it's a sign.
Michael Collins
Sign? My... fuck it!
Harry Boland
I'm tellin' ya.
Michael Collins
You know the problem with butterflies?
Kitty Kiernan
What's that?
Michael Collins
They only last one day.
Harry Boland
Aye, but what a day, Mick!
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Kitty Kiernan
So which one of you gunslingers is going to ask me to dance?
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