Maid Marian Quotes in Robin Hood (1991)

Maid Marian: So what are you going to do to me? Tie me up?

Robin Hood: Could be a lashing.

Maid Marian: How many strokes?

Robin Hood: As many as are necessary.

Maid Marian: And then it's finished?

Robin Hood: That depends. Have you ever been lashed before?

Maid Marian: I've never had someone make me beg them to stop.

Robin Hood: Then you've never had a proper lashing.

Maid Marian: I will not marry to symbolize a peace, or to ratify a treaty. But... this man I will have... because he makes the May tree blossom and the bees buzz in my breast. I will take this man because he brings springtime to my heart.

Baron Roger Daguerre: You are the most beautiful bride England has ever seen.

Maid Marian: I am the most pitiful bride England has ever seen.

Maid Marian: [watching Sir Miles Folcanet ride away from them] My future husband is sulking.

Will Scarlett: [watching Robin Hood ride up to them] Oh, I don't know, he looks quite happy to me.

Maid Marian: [Approaches the Baron playing backgammon with Robert Hode aka Robin Hood] Who's winning, uncle?

Baron Roger Daguerre: Robert, of course.

Maid Marian: [Staring at Sir Miles] I do not want you.

Maid Marian: I believe Sir Robert never loses. So he tells me.

Robin Hood: You're free to go. Or stay if you think you've something to offer?

Maid Marian: What could I offer to the man who has everything?

Robin Hood: [Frowns] Don't play games with me.

Maid Marian: You're so handsome when you're angry.

Robin Hood: What's your name?

Maid Marian: [In disguise] Martin. Martin Pride.

Robin Hood: Pride. I like it.

Robin Hood: Who are you?

Maid Marian: [Disguised as Martin Pride] What a time to ask philosophical questions.

Maid Marian: You can scrub me, you can dip me in perfume. It's too late, Miles. What you want has already been given to another man, with the greatest pleasure!

Maid Marian: Just what do you think you are doing?

Robin Hood: Getting up.

Maid Marian: You are not. Come now, a sup of barley broth.

Robin Hood: I'm sick to death of barley broth. And once more I've been bullied long enough by you and that turniped faced friar.

Friar Tuck: Hmph!

Maid Marian: Now you drink this!

Robin Hood: You drink it!

Friar Tuck: [sits on Robin Hood so he can't move] Pour it down his throat.

Maid Marian: And you, good rogue, have my gracious leave to pine and fret till my return.

Robin Hood: Oh, why should I?

Maid Marian: To please a lady.

Robin Hood: I could please myself to take up the cross and follow my king to the Holy Land.

Maid Marian: 'Twould come to the same thing in the end. Chop a few heads enough you'd come back a knight. As a knight you'd go jousting a tournament, to please a lady, and have your own head chopped off.

Robin Hood: It would be worth it.

Maid Marian: Is she so passing fair?

Robin Hood: Aye

Maid Marian: Describe her to me, Robin.

Robin Hood: Well... she's....

Tyb: Marian! Come now!

Robin Hood: You're father's waiting.

Maid Marian: I know, I know. Tell me quickly.

Robin Hood: Well, she's tall and stately with bonnie blue eyes and golden hair. And above all she's sweetly tempered.

[Marian kicks Robin in the shin]

Robin Hood: Ooooh. Owe.

Maid Marian: Farewell, old clodhopper!

Maid Marian: [dressed as a page boy being held back by Little John] Let me go, you monster! Let me go!

Robin Hood: Hey, John. Give me that lad.

Maid Marian: [Marian is tossed to Robin] Let me down, you... you white faced...

Robin Hood: Well, you're a pretty lad and sweetly tempered. Like a lady I used to know.

Maid Marian: And I used to know a gentleman called Robin Fitzooth who would scorn to be a common thief.

Maid Marian: So it's goodbye again.

Robin Hood: It will always be goodbye till King Richard returns.

Maid Marian: I fear so. Do you remember the day we said goodbye at Huntington?

Robin Hood: I do.

Maid Marian: And you were wishing to join the crusade and go to the Holy Land.

Robin Hood: Yes.

Maid Marian: It's well for England that you didn't.

Robin Hood: I wonder.

Maid Marian: You're serving your king better here, Robin Fitzooth.

Robin Hood: Thank you, my lady.

Maid Marian: I've come to warn you, Prince John and Rottingham have hired men to kill you at the fair tomorrow. You musn't go.

Robin Hood: Well, that's easy. I won't.

Maid Marian: Oh, I'm so happy! They were going to try to lure you there by having an archery contest.

Robin Hood: An archery contest?

Maid Marian: Their archer is unbeatable.

Robin Hood: Really?

Maid Marian: Robin, promise you won't go.

Robin Hood: All right, I promise you won't go.

Maid Marian: Thank you.

[stops for a second, confused]

Ahchoo: But wait a minute, Robin, didn't you just...

Robin Hood: Cool it...

Ahchoo: Chilled.

Robin Hood: [trying to unlock the chastity belt] Um, darling?

Maid Marian: [in sultry voice] What?

Robin Hood: You're not going to believe this...

Maid Marian: What?

Robin Hood: It won't open!

Maid Marian: WHAT?

Robin Hood: Wait, I have an idea! Call a locksmith!

Sheriff of Rottingham: King illegal forest to pig wild kill in it a is!

Robin Hood, Maid Marian: What?

Sheriff of Rottingham: I mean, don't you know it's illegal to kill a wild pig in the king's forest?

Robin Hood: Is it not also illegal to sit on the king's throne and usurp his power in his absence?

[crowd gasps]

Prince John: Careful Robin, you go too far.

Maid Marian: Oh, darling, don't despair! For it is written on a scroll: "One day, he, who is destined for me, shall be endowed with a magical key, that will bring an end to my... virginity."

Robin Hood: Oh, Marian, if only 'twere me.

Maid Marian: Oh, if 'twere you, 'twould be... twerrific.

Rabbi Tuckman: [performing the marriage] Robin, do you?

Robin Hood: I do.

Rabbi Tuckman: Marian, do you?

Maid Marian: I do.

Rabbi Tuckman: I now pronounce you man and...

King Richard: I object!

Rabbi Tuckman: Who asked?

Robin Hood: [carrying Marian to the bed] Oh my darling, at last.

Maid Marian: [sliding his hand to the key to unlock her chastity belt] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!

Broomhilde: [rushes into the room] NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Robin Hood: [groans]

Broomhilde: You are not married yet! Before you do it, you must go through it! Or else I blew it.

Maid Marian: Wait!

Sheriff of Rottingham: What for?

Maid Marian: If you promise not to kill Robin, I shall do the most disgusting thing that I can think of.

Prince John: Oooohhh.

Sheriff of Rottingham: Oh? And what's that?

Maid Marian: I shall marry you.

Sheriff of Rottingham: What? You'll be mine? You'll give yourself to me every night? And sometimes, right after lunch?

Maid Marian: Yes, but only my body. You can never have my heart, my mind, or my soul!

Sheriff of Rottingham: Oh, oh yes! I respect that.

[Robin is being made to watch Marian's wedding from the gallows]

Abbot: Do you, Sheriff of Rottingham, take Marian of Bahgel to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, till death do you part?

Sheriff of Rottingham: YES I DO! Get on with it!

Abbot: And do you, Marian, vow to do all the stuff I just said?

Sheriff of Rottingham: [to Marian] Say I do, or Robin dies!

Maid Marian: I... I do...

[Ahchoo shoots through Robin's noose]

Maid Marian: NOT!

Robin Hood: Oh, my darling, I'm ready for that kiss now.

Maid Marian: But first, I must warn you. It could only be a kiss. For I am a virgin and could never... go all the way.

Robin Hood: But...

Maid Marian: Unless I were married. Or if a man pledged his endless love to me.

Robin Hood: Yes...

Maid Marian: Or if I knew that he desperately cared for me. Or if he were really cute!

[Rottingham slices off Robin's necklace, sending his key flying. The key falls into the lock of Marian's chastity belt]

Robin Hood: It is the key to the greatest treasure in all the land!

Maid Marian: This means you've always been my one true love because it's just the right size!

Sheriff of Rottingham: It's not the size that counts... It's how you use it!

Maid Marian: Broomhilde, there's a foul plot afoot.

Broomhilde: It's not my feet, I just washed them.

Maid Marian: Oh Broomhilde, look! A happy little bluebird! Hello!

[the bird lands on her finger]

Maid Marian: This means I must make a wish. I wish against wish, I hope against hope, that the heavens bring me a kind and wonderful gentleman who possesses the key to my...

[looks at her chastity belt, then looks at Broomhilde]

Maid Marian: heart.

[bird flies away]

Maid Marian: Goodbye, my little friend.

Broomhilde: Ooh, that happy little bluebird has left a happy little do-do on your hand!

Maid Marian: I love you. More than all you know. I love you more than children. More than fields I've planted with my hands. I love you more than morning prayers or peace or food to eat. I love you more than sunlight, more than flesh or joy, or one more day. I love you... more than God.

Robin Hood: [seeing Marian in a nun's habit] Marian, what are you doing in that costume?

Maid Marian: Living in it.

Maid Marian: Robin, were there many women on your Great Crusade?

Robin Hood: Lots.

Maid Marian: Don't tell me.

Robin Hood: As you wish.

Maid Marian: How many?

Robin Hood: Well...

[after a long pause]

Robin Hood: ... But they all looked like you.

[Robin Hood comes back from the Crusades]

Maid Marian: You never wrote.

Robin Hood: I don't know how.

Robin Hood: Jesus, Marian! Why?

Maid Marian: I love you. More than all you know. I love you more than children. More than fields I've planted with my hands. I love you more than morning prayers or peace or food to eat. I love you more than sunlight, more than flesh or joy or one more day. I love you more than God.

Maid Marian: Let's take a look at you.

Robin Hood: [opens his shirt] Just a few bumps and bruises.

Maid Marian: [Reacting to his scars] Oh!

[She touches them gently]

Maid Marian: So many... You had the sweetest body when you left. Hard, and not a mark. And you were mine. When you left I thought I'd die. I even tried. I walked into the woods and laid down by a stream and cut myself. Some damn fool forrester came by, took me to the abbey. So they say. No more scars, Robin. It's too much to lose you twice.

Robin Hood: I've never kissed a member of the clergy before. Would it be a sin?

Maid Marian: I don't know how I look to you, but I'm not your Marian. I can't imagine living in the world again, or even for a minute wanting to. Come morning, I'm going to the Sheriff.

Robin Hood: What's the sense? Who would it serve?

Maid Marian: There's always God. You went crusading, didn't you?

Robin Hood: There are some things worth dying for.

Maid Marian: They had souls, too, the heathen that you killed. If I should die in prison-and I'd rather not, but if it comes-it's for a reason. I'll have stood for something, and I won't have taken another life to do it. What will you do now? Fight the Sheriff? More corpses? Aren't you sick of it?

Robin Hood: On the twelfth of July, 1191, the mighty fortress that was Acre fell to Richard, his one great victory in the Holy Land. He was sick in bed and never struck a blow. On the eighth of August, John and I stood outside watching while every Muslim left alive was marched out in chains. King Richard spared the rich for ransoms, took the strong for slaves, then he took the children-*all* the children-and had them chopped apart. Then he had their mothers killed. When they were all dead, three thousand bodies on the plain, he had them all opened up so their guts could be explored for gold and precious stones. Our churchmen on the scene-and there were many-took it for a triumph! One bishop put on his mitre and led us all in prayer. And you ask me if I'm sick of it.

Maid Marian: Why didn't you come home then?

Robin Hood: Bec... he was my King.

Maid Marian: Robin, I'd be 20 for you if I could.