Rupert Venneker Quotes in The Sundowners (1960)

Sean Carmody: Gee, it's gonna be fun. This is the first time I've ever been away from home.

Shearer: What, with your mom and dad not fifty yards outside that window, and you call that being away from home?

Rupert Venneker: Certainly. Being out in the world is a state of mind, not of geography. The distance between that tent and this bunker is the longest journey you will ever make in your life.

Rupert Venneker: Nothing is as revolting to the young than to see their elders at play.

Paddy Carmody: Do me a favor, will you? If you're gonna be a drover, look like a drover. Get rid of that silly flaming hat.

Rupert Venneker: Let me tell you about this silly flaming hat, my good man.

Paddy Carmody: And don't call me that. I'm not your good man.

Rupert Venneker: Would you prefer boss?

Paddy Carmody: Wouldn't be a bad idea.

Rupert Venneker: This cap belonged to a ship's master in the China trade.

Paddy Carmody: Oh, what happened to him?

Rupert Venneker: Nothing happened to him. He's just not going to call you boss, that's all.

Sean Carmody: [on hearing Venneker had been a ship's captain] Why'd you leave?

Rupert Venneker: My stomach. I was a notoriously bad sailor.

Sean Carmody: Dad says you must have been a better sailor than you are a horseman.

Rupert Venneker: What the devil is he talking about? I was cashiered from the 17th Lancers before he knew one end of a horse from the other! NOT that he does now! Hah!

Sean Carmody: What does cashiered mean?

Rupert Venneker: Uh - kind of promotion from the army into civilian life.