Humble Bellows Quotes in The Crimson Pirate (1952)

Vallo: You've sold me Humble Bellows - and to a king's flunky!

Humble Bellows: Aye. 'Tis my modest opinion that no man can fly pirate colors who's not willing to sell his friend, his sweetheart, or his mother.

Baron Jose Gruda: Well spoken, Mr. Bellows.

Vallo: Foul spoken it is, Humble Bellows. You've turned your hand against your captain's back. Yellow was never a pirate's colour.

Slimy: Nor rescuing a fair maiden a pirate caper.

Humble Bellows: Meantime, we got regular pirate business to settle. We got the plank, the culprit and the verdict. All we need's a trial, an execution and a sentence.

Slimy: He's guilty!

Humble Bellows: So much for the trial. Now for execution.

Humble Bellows: There goes a good pirate, Stub Ear, to sell his wares like a fish peddler. Meaning no disrespect to the skipper, of course.

Stub Ear: And us, with a price on our heads, hove to in one of His Majesty's ports like sitting ducks.

Poison Paul: But if the skipper pulls us through again, we'll be the ducks what laid the golden eggs.

Humble Bellows: Ye be thinking of geese, if you'll pardon the correction, Poison Paul. Geese... on a wild goose chase.

Humble Bellows: Be that bit of fluff El Libre?

Vallo: That's the bit of fluff that's taking us to him.

Humble Bellows: Thou hast a generous choice: the gallows, or the sea.

Prof. Prudence: [walks to Vallo] If it won't crowd you?

Vallo: I'd rather you weren't coming, but I don't want to seem inhospitable.