Charles Remington Quotes in The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

Charles Remington: Well, I'm a very considerate man. My mother taught me that.

[Samuel laughs]

Charles Remington: Now, what the hell you laughing about? You don't think I'm considerate?

Samuel: I don't believe you had a mother.

John Patterson: Have you ever failed?

Charles Remington: Only at life.

John Patterson: You don't enjoy killing, do you?

[Remington ignores the question by taking a swig from his flask]

Hawthorne: Then why do it?

Charles Remington: Because I've got a gift.

Charles Remington: We have an expression in prize fighting: "Everyone has a plan until they've been hit." Well my friend, you've just been hit. The getting up is up to you.

Hawthorne: I wouldn't have thought bravery would be a problem for you.

Charles Remington: Well, you hope each time it won't be... But you never really know.

Abdullah: [gun to his head] I am a man of peace!

Charles Remington: You sound like a man who wants to live.

Charles Remington: [melancholy] My life was shaped because someone invented gunpowder, and that's what took me around the world. But the memory that I wanted, that was the family that I lost.

John Patterson: You know Charles, you're a rather cheerful fellow when you get to know you.

[all start laughing]

Charles Remington: Oh, you're right. The devil has come to Tsavo. Look at me! I am the devil.

[after they discover the Lion's Den filled with skeletons, and are terrified]

Charles Remington: Lions don't do this. Lions... never had a lair like this. They're doing it for the pleasure.

John Patterson: They'll know we've been here.