Father Paul Quotes in The Hurricane (1937)

DeLaage: You helped Terangi? My own priest?

Father Paul: I'm his priest too!

DeLaage: You helped a murderer!

Father Paul: I aided a man whose heart is innocent.

DeLaage: You've given aid to anarchy and bloodshed!

Father Paul: I'll answer for it.

Madame Germaine De Laage: [storm is relentlessly pounding the church, people inside hear the sea gaining on the church]

Madame Germaine De Laage: Father, will the sea rise and cover the island?

Father Paul: We're on the highest part here, my daughter. Even if the sea reaches us, the walls will keep it out.

Terangi: [from the tree, Terangi sees two columns collapse on the west wall of the church] The church! It's going!

Terangi: [after fighting the pounding seas to get inside the church] Father Paul, come! The sea is breaking in, the walls are going, Look!

[points to the altar, where the wind starts tearing up the corrugated iron roof]

Father Paul: Take those who want to go. I am staying here!

Terangi: You will drown, Father Paul! You saved me. Take my arm and let me save you!

Father Paul: No, my son, Take Madame.

Madame Germaine De Laage: No! I'll stay with you Father Paul

Father Paul: Take her! Take her back safe to the world that will drown you, Terangi.

[storm shatters the gothic window on the west wall, more water and wind blow into the church]

Father Paul: Please Madame, Go. Terangi, Take her

Terangi: Yes, Father.

Father Paul: Those of you who wish to go, go now! Those who wish to sing with me, for the last time, stay.

Terangi: [from the tree, Terangi sees two colums collapse on the west wall of the church] The church! It's going!

Terangi: [after fighting the pounding seas to get inside the church] Father Paul, come! The sea is breaking in, the walls are going, Look!

[points to the altar, where the wind starts tearing up the corrugated iron roof]

Father Paul: Take those who want to go. I am staying here!

Terangi: You will drown, Father Paul! You saved me. Take my arm and let me save you!

Father Paul: No, my son, Take Madame.

Madame Germaine De Laage: No! I'll stay with you Father Paul

Father Paul: Take her! Take her back safe to the world that will drown you, Terangi.

[storm shatters the gothic window on the west wall, more water and wind blow into the church]

Father Paul: Please Madame, Go. Terangi, Take her

Terangi: Yes, Father.

Father Paul: Those of you who wish to go, go now! Those who wish to sing with me, for the last time, stay.

Father Paul: [as Terangi tries to kiss his hand] No, no, you owe me no thanks, my son. This is between me and somebody else.

[a heavenly chorus is heard]

Father Paul: Father! Father Lonergan!

Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [not wanting to disturb the fish] Ssh, ssh, ssh, ssh, ssh.

Father Paul: It's a big fight in the town!

Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: Listen, there's a big fight in this fish right here, too.

Father Paul: I'd have put a stop to it, but seeing it's...

Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: You do that, lad. It's your duty.

Father Paul: But seeing it was Danaher and Sean Thornton...

[Father Lonergan turns at stares at Father Paul in amazement]

Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: WHO?

Father Paul: Danaher and Sean Thornton!

Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: WELL WHY THE DEVIL DIDN'T YOU TELL ME? Oh, you young...

[Throws down his fishing rod and the two run back into town. They abruptly stop behind a gate]

Father Paul: Father, shouldn't we put a stop to it now?

Father Peter Lonergan, Narrator: [relishing the fight from a distance] Ah, we should, lad, yes, we should, it's our duty!

Father Paul: I've killed those two over and over and over... and each time has been more enjoyable than the last.

Father Paul: Have you considered any of that 'turning the other cheek business', you know, let by-gones be by-gones?

Jake McCallister: Not today.