Blakeney Quotes in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Dr. Stephen Maturin: Mr Blakeney, it would appear that you have the makings of a naturalist.

Blakeney: Well, sir, perhaps I could combine them to be a sort of... fighting naturalist, like you, sir.

Dr. Stephen Maturin: They don't combine too well, I find. Right...

[about to get up even though he's still recovering from injury]

Blakeney: Should you really be getting up, sir?

Dr. Stephen Maturin: Mr Blakeney, are you also a doctor?

Blakeney: No, sir.

Dr. Stephen Maturin: No, you're not.

[gets up]

Blakeney: Tie your neck bands on your right upper arm to tell friend from foe.

Blakeney: [pointing] Davies, this arm. Starboard arm.

Awkward Davies, Able Seaman: Is that the one you got or the one you don't got?

Blakeney: All right, that's enough cheek, Davies.

Blakeney: Sir, I think we should be getting back.

Dr. Stephen Maturin: Naval discipline doesn't operate out here, Mr. Blakeney. I must find a cormorant. And should it indeed prove flightless, you can join me at the Royal Society dinner as codiscoverer.

Capt. Jack Aubrey: I'm sorry you had to leave the majority of your collection behind, Stephen.

Dr. Stephen Maturin: In actual fact, Mr. Blakeney and I did make one very interesting find.

[Hands Jack a small stick of wood]

Capt. Jack Aubrey: Is that right?

[looks at it]

Capt. Jack Aubrey: Let me guess: a stick?

[Stephen chuckles and hands him a magnifying glass. Jack looks at the stick through the glass, then squints in wonder]

Dr. Stephen Maturin: Tell him about it, Mr. Blakeney.

Blakeney: It's a rare phasmid, sir.

Capt. Jack Aubrey: A phasmid?

Blakeney: It's an insect that disguises itself as a stick, to confuse its predators.