Sanderson Reed Quotes in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

[Allan aims his elephant gun at a fleeing assassin]

Sanderson Reed: But he's so far away.

[Allan lowers the gun with a grunt of frustration]

Sanderson Reed: Yes, I thought he was.

[Allan puts on a pair of glasses]

Allan Quartermain: God, I hate getting old.

[He aims the rifle and fires. In the far distance, the assassin goes down. Reed gapes]

Sanderson Reed: Where is your sense of patriotism?

Allan Quatermain: [stands up with a drink] God save the Queen.

[the other patrons of the club mutter an apathetic return to the toast]

Nigel: God save her.

Allan Quatermain: [to Reed] That's about as patriotic as it gets around here.

Sanderson Reed: They're indestructible.

Allan Quatermain: No, just armor-plated.

[Chasing Moriarty, Tom Sawyer bumps into an invisible man]

Tom Sawyer: Skinner?

[to Quatermain]

Tom Sawyer: It's okay! It's Skinner!

[to the invisible man]

Tom Sawyer: What the hell are you doing here?

Sanderson Reed: What makes you think I'm Skinner, huh?

Sanderson Reed: There is great unrest. Countries set at each other's throats, baying for blood. It's a powder-keg. The trouble of which I speak could set a match to the whole thing: War.

Allan Quatermain: Wi-With whom, exactly?

Sanderson Reed: Everyone. A world war.

Allan Quatermain: That notion makes you sweat?

Sanderson Reed: Heavens, man. Doesn't it you?

Allan Quatermain: This is Africa, dear boy. Sweating is what we do.

Sanderson Reed: But you're Allan Quatermain. Stories of your exploits have thrilled English boys for decades.

Allan Quatermain: That I know. And Nigel has done a grand job reminding me. But... with each past exploit I've lost friends, white men and black... and much more. And I'm not the man I once was.

Sanderson Reed: The Empire needs you.

Allan Quatermain: But the question is, do I need the Empire?

[first lines]

Sanderson Reed: [to coachman] Don't... wander... off.