Dale Arden Quotes in Flash Gordon (1980)

Dale Arden: Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!

Zogi, the High Priest: Do you, Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe, take this Earthling Dale Arden, to be your Empress of the Hour?

The Emperor Ming: Of the hour, yes.

Zogi, the High Priest: Do you promise to use her as you will?

The Emperor Ming: Certainly!

Zogi, the High Priest: Not to blast her into space?

[Ming glares at Zogi]

Zogi, the High Priest: Uh, until such time as you grow weary of her.

The Emperor Ming: I do.

Dale Arden: I do NOT!

Flash Gordon: This Ming is a psycho!

Ming's Floating Servant: This Ming is a psycho.

Klytus: Who said that?

Ming's Floating Servant: The fair-haired prisoner.

Klytus: Who are you?

Flash Gordon: Flash Gordon. Quarterback. New York Jets.

Dale Arden: Dale Arden, Your Highness. Live and let live, that's my motto.

Dale Arden: I'm a New York City girl. It's a little too quiet around here for me.

Flash Gordon: This isn't happening, Dale. We're not here. It's just a bad dream.

Dale Arden: Oh, I agree completely. We'll wake up in any minute in Dock Harbor and have a laugh about this.

Flash Gordon: Only this time I won't just ask the maitre d' your name. I'll walk over and talk to you.

Dale Arden: You promise?

Flash Gordon: I promise. Cross my heart and hope to... I really will talk to you, Dale.

Dale Arden: [trying to turn over hourglass] It won't turn over! It won't turn over!

Klytus: The tributes of the Hawkmen will be first.

Dale Arden: Are we dreaming?

Flash Gordon: I'd like to think so.

Prince Vultan: The fabled ice jewel of Frigia; we seized it in battle from the royal crypt.

Prince Barin: Stop! The ice jewel is our tribute, not Vultan's.

Prince Barin: Vultan stole it while we were burying our dead on Frigia

Prince Vultan: Liar!

Prince Barin: You are a thief!

Prince Vultan: What?

Prince Vultan: [Prince Barin draws his sword, preparing to attack Vultan]

[Vultan raises his clubbed sword]

Prince Vultan: Aargh!

Klytus: Put down your weapons! No one, but no one, dies in the palace without a command from the Emperor.

Prince Barin: Hail, Ming!

[Barin lowers his sword]

Prince Vultan: Aargh!

Klytus: Vultan! You obey, or you sacrifice your daughter.

[Vultan's daughter emerges, looks at her father]

Prince Vultan: [lowers his club sword relentingly] Hail, Ming.

Klytus: Now the tributes from Ardentia.

Prince Thun: Your Majesty, we, the people of Ardentia, we have suffered since you blasted our kingdom. I can offer you nothing this year, except my loyalty.

Klytus: Prince Thun, we prize nothing more highly. And tell us, how great is this loyalty to your emperor?

Prince Thun: Without measure.

The Emperor Ming: We are delighted to hear it; fall on your sword.

The Emperor Ming: Show us this loyalty, throw yourself onto your sword.

Prince Thun: [Prince Thun unsheathes his sword] May this deed of Prince Thun be an example to all the kingdoms of Mongo; death to Ming!

[Prince Thun is stopped by a freeze beam from Ming's servant]

Prince Thun: [Ming disembowels and slays Prince Thun with his own sword]

Dale Arden: Ugh!

Princess Aura: But my father has never kept a vow in his life!

Dale Arden: I can't help that, Aura. Keeping our word is one of the things that make us... better than you.

Hedonia: It has no name. Many brave men died to bring it here from the Galaxy of Pleasure... It will make your nights with Ming more... agreeable.

Dale Arden: Will it make me forget?

Hedonia: No, but it will make you not mind remembering.

Dale Arden: So that's why they let us escape; Klytus thought he'd wiped out your memory.

Dr. Hans Zarkov: But do you know why it really failed?

Dale Arden: I can't imagine.

Dr. Hans Zarkov: As I was going under, I started to recite Shakespeare, the Talmud, the formulas of Einstein, anything I could remember, even a song from the Beatles.

Dr. Hans Zarkov: It armored me, girl; they couldn't wipe those things away. You can't beat the human spirit!

Prince Vultan: [incredulous] What is this?

Dr. Hans Zarkov: [proud] Humanity.

Prince Vultan: Madness!

Dale Arden: [dreamily] Oh, Flash!

Flash Gordon: My God!

Dale Arden: What is this, a civic reception?

Flash Gordon: More like a police state.

Dr. Hans Zarkov: If it is, that could be our good luck.

Flash Gordon: Why?

Dr. Hans Zarkov: It means we'll find allies on every side. Look at them, the poor wretches are just waiting for someone to lead them in revolt.

Flash Gordon: Are you looking at me, Zarkov?

Dr. Hans Zarkov: Yes.

Dale Arden: Please, stop talking about revolts, I just want to get back home alive.

Dale Arden: Just hold me two seconds, then drop me so I can kiss the ground.

Dale Arden: Flash... Flash... Flash.

Vultan: She calls for Flash! I'll give her a flash!