Sir Ranulf Quotes in Robin and Marian (1976)

Sir Ranulf: He's become a legend. Have you ever tried to fight a legend?

King John: Only my brother.

Sir Ranulf: I hold my office from the King himself!

Robin Hood: I never liked your King much.

Sir Ranulf: You're his subject... and his servant.

Robin Hood: He's not King here. Not in Sherwood.

Sir Ranulf: [mocking] *You're* the ruler? Should I bow?

Robin Hood: I wouldn't have you in my service, nobleman. I've known your kind all my life. You're everything I'm meant to fight. *You're* the enemy. You gobble good red meat, and we get bread and cheese. The laws can't touch you and there's no crime you can be punished for, and we can shoot a deer and have our eyes put out. This is *my* forest. I'll live here as I like. You come in again, I'll kill you.

Sheriff of Nottingham: Robin! Still not dead?

Robin Hood: Not for want of trying. You look well, all things considered.

Sheriff of Nottingham: How was the Crusade?

Robin Hood: A disappointment. After all these years, look at us. I'm nothing but a former captain, and you're still the Sheriff.

Sheriff of Nottingham: No advancement. You see, I can read and write. Makes you suspect. Not a duke in twenty reads a word.

[to Sir Ranulf]

Sheriff of Nottingham: Correct, milord?

Sir Ranulf: Books are for clerks.

Sheriff of Nottingham: Robin, you're still a free man. Let me have her and you can go.

Robin Hood: You know I can't do that.

Sheriff of Nottingham: Well, then, I shall have to hunt you down.

Robin Hood: Good hunting, Sheriff.

Sheriff of Nottingham: God help you, Robin.

Robin Hood: If He will.

[rides away]

Sir Ranulf: [recovering from a kick in the groin] So that's Robin Hood. He's a dead man.

Sheriff of Nottingham: Yes... but not just anyone's. He's mine. Can you get on your horse, Sir Ranulf?

Sir Ranulf: [impatient that Robin hasn't appeared] He'll never come.

Sheriff of Nottingham: I know him. He's a little bit in love with death. He flirts; he teases. I can wait.