Caliph Quotes in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

Caliph: Where will you find the crew, Sinbad?

Sinbad: The bravest of my former men will sail with me.

Caliph: That will not be enough. Where will you find the others?

Sinbad: I'll find them... where men fear the headman's axe more than the cyclops - in the caliph's prison yard.

Caliph: You have committed treason against both Baghdad and Chandra. If you are found within the walls of our city by sunset tomorrow, your eyes will be torn out that you may see no more evil dreams.

Caliph: I fear for you. You are so innocent.

Princess Fakzia: Who fault is that? Here I am 17 and unwedded. My sisters and cousins were married at 14! I have wasted three years and I will waste no more!

Caliph: Do you love my daughter?

Hajji Baba: Love her? I am a barber's son.

Caliph: Mohammed himself was not born a prince. And it is he who said, "The greatest power in the world is love." Nurel-Din's strength can crumble and fade away, but the power of love remains. I say to you, if you love my daughter, you have that power. Win her.

Caliph Guard: [closing lines] Is this man to be pardoned, O Caliph?

Omar: Pardon him, All Highest. His crime was a service. Let him go free.

Poet: No, don't ask that. Under the circumstances it would embarrass the All Highest to pardon his father-in-law. O, Prince of Justice, let me help you to compose this most difficult of verdicts against a man who in his life never once did right and who never once wronged anyone. Condemn the scoundrel to some dreadful oasis at least a week's camel journey away. Force him to take with him the widow of the soon-to-be late Wazir...

[turning to Lalume, the Wazir's wife, and speaking under his breath]

Poet: and all the property she can get her hands on before the accounts are audited.

[turning back to the Caliph, in full voice]

Poet: Condemn him to lighten her sorrow and to toil ceaselessly to remove all grief from her heart.

Lalume: You have just condemned yourself for life, My Lord.

Poet: And finally, O Prince of True Believers, take from me my greatest treasure, my daughter, Marsinah. Take her away forever by marrying her to the end of her days.

Caliph: Such is the Caliph's pleasure. And so he orders.

Poet: [singing] Princes come, princes go. / An hour of pomp and show. / They know princes come / and over the sands and over the sands of time they go. / Wise men come ever promising the riddle of life to know. / Wise men come, but over the sands / the silent sands of time they go. / Lovers come, lovers go / and all that there is to know / lovers know, only lovers know.

Caliph: I was stepped upon!

Omar: Oh, inconceivable, All Highest, but true. You were incontrovertibly stepped upon.