Sean Carmody 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.

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.