Aga Ben Dragore Quotes in The Ghoul (1933)

Nigel Hartley: I'm sorry there should be this sort of atmosphere. After all, we're only ships that pass in the night.

Broughton: Hmmm. Do you want a drink, or will you pass now?

Aga Ben Dragore: [as the romantic Kaney is making tea for the household] Six cups? That's just... just four too many.

[Grabbing her hand]

Aga Ben Dragore: Eh?

Kaney: Tell me about Egypt. Have you ever seen a shiek?

Aga Ben Dragore: [Imperiously folding his arms a la Valentino] I am one!

Kaney: [Shocked] What?

Aga Ben Dragore: Now I will show you how we make coffee in the desert... by the native stars.

Kaney: You don't make it yourself, do you?

Aga Ben Dragore: No, of course not! A Circassian slave, lovely and thin, cooks it for us, kneeling. And if it is not to our liking...

Kaney: I know! She is stripped to the waist and lashed for miles across the Sahara.

Aga Ben Dragore: Where she is finally eaten by locusts. And rightly. Now; take this canister and do exactly as I tell you.

Kaney: And if I fail?

Aga Ben Dragore: The Yorkshire moors are just behind us!