Captain Esteban Pasquale Quotes in The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Don Diego Vega: I must please ask you to change the subject. His Excellency objects to talk of throat-cutting.

Captain Esteban Pasquale: Quiet, you Popinjay! I have no reason to letting you live either.

Don Diego Vega: What a pleasant coincidence. I feel exactly the same way about you Capitan.

Captain Esteban Pasquale: You wouldn't care to translate that feeling into action would you?

Don Diego Vega: I might be tempted. If I had a weapon.

Captain Esteban Pasquale: Would you.

Don Luis B. Quintero: My dear Esteban is forever thrusting at this and at that. He used to be a fencing instructor in Barcelona.

Don Diego Vega: How exhausting.

Captain Esteban Pasquale: I didn't find it so.

Don Diego Vega: Then why did you give it up?

Captain Esteban Pasquale: I had the misfortune to kill a man of influence.

Don Luis B. Quintero: A lady was involved, I believe.

Don Diego Vega: The gentleman's wife, no doubt?

Captain Esteban Pasquale: Just how did you mean that, Señor?

Don Diego Vega: I had hoped to be amusing... Have I failed?

Captain Esteban Pasquale: Somewhat. With me.

Captain Esteban Pasquale: His Excellency will never forgive me if I let you go without a word of welcome from him. I'm quite sure that you'll save me a reprimand.

Don Diego Vega: How could I refuse a man anything with a naked sword in his hand?

Don Diego Vega: [Explaining why he's late to dinner] They heated the water from my bath too early. It was positively tepid! By the time more was carried and properly scented... Life can be trying, don't you think?

Don Luis B. Quintero: Yes.

[laughs]

Lolita Quintero: [Disappointed in Diego] Oh, Maria!

Maria de Lopez: Courage, courage!

Don Luis B. Quintero: Well, shall we dine? Come, Diego.

Captain Esteban Pasquale: [to Inez] His bath was tepid? Poor Lolita! I'm afraid her married life will be the same!

Don Diego Vega: [as Esteban repeatedly stabs a piece of fruit with a knife at the dinner table] Captain, you seem to regard that fruit as an enemy.

Captain Esteban Pasquale: A rival!

Captain Esteban Pasquale: Conditions have changed since you left, Don Diego. Your father resigned. Age, you know! Since then, the peons have become um... more industrious. As to the caballeros. they're encouraged to think of their own affairs. WE take care of the government!