Thornton Quotes in The Quiet Man (1952)

Thornton: There'll be no locks or bolts between us, Mary Kate... except those in your own mercenary little heart!

Mary Kate Danaher: It's a bold one you are! Who gave you leave to be kissin' me?

Thornton: So you can talk!

Mary Kate Danaher: Yes I can, I will and I do! And it's more than talk you'll be gettin' if you step a step closer to me!

Thornton: Don't worry - you've got a wallop!

Mary Kate Danaher: You'll get over it, I'm thinkin'.

Thornton: Well, some things a man doesn't get over so easy.

Mary Kate Danaher: Like what, supposin'?

Thornton: Like the sight of a girl coming through the fields with the sun on her hair... kneeling in church with a face like a saint...

Mary Kate Danaher: Saint indeed!

Thornton: ...and now coming to a man's house to clean it for him.

Mary Kate Danaher: But... that was just my way of bein' a good Christian act.

Thornton: I know it was, Mary Kate Danaher. And it was nice of you.

Mary Kate Danaher: Not at all.

Michaleen Flynn: Well it's a nice, soft night, so I think I'll go and join me comrades and talk a little treason. G'night, Sean.

Thornton: G'night, Michaleen.

"Red Will" Danaher: I'll count three, and if you're not out of the house by then, I'll loose the dogs on you.

Thornton: If you say "three," mister, you'll never hear the man count "ten."

"Red Will" Danaher: Mind you, I'm fresh as a daisy!

Thornton: You look more like a Black-Eyed Susan to me.

Thornton: I don't get this. Why do we have to get you along? Back in the States, I'd drive up, honk the horn, the gal'd come runnin'...

Mary Kate Danaher: Come a-runnin'? I'm no woman to be honked at and come a-runnin'!

Michaleen Flynn: America - ha! Prohibition! You see that over there? That's the ancestral home of ancient Flynns. It was taken from us by... by... by the Druids!

[stops the cart]

Michaleen Flynn: Quietest couple I ever heard. We'll get nowhere at this rate. Off with ya!

[Sean tries to help Mary Kate down]

Michaleen Flynn: She's a fine healthy girl - no patty-fingers if ya please!

Mary Kate Danaher: I have a fearful temper. You might as well know about it now instead of findin' out about it later. We Danahers are a fightin' people.

Thornton: I can think of a lot of things I'd rather do to one of the Danahers - Miss Danaher.

Mary Kate Danaher: Shhh, Mr. Thornton! What will Mr. Flynn be thinkin'?

Thornton: If anybody had told me six months ago that today I'd be in a graveyard in Innisfree with a girl like you that I'm just about to kiss, I'd have told 'em...

Mary Kate Danaher: Oh, but the kisses are a long way off yet!

Thornton: Huh?

Mary Kate Danaher: Well, we just started a-courtin', and next month, we, we start the walkin' out, and the month after that there'll be the threshin' parties, and the month after that...

Thornton: Nope.

Mary Kate Danaher: Well, maybe we won't have to wait that month...

Thornton: Yup.

Mary Kate Danaher: ...or for the threshin' parties...

Thornton: Nope.

Mary Kate Danaher: ...or for the walkin' out together...

Thornton: No.

Mary Kate Danaher: ...and so much the worse for you, Sean Thornton, for I feel the same way about it myself!

[They kiss. Thunder rolls]

Thornton: [drunk] Woman-of-the-house! I have brought the brother home to supper!

[Throws hat]

Mary Kate Danaher: He is kindly welcome.

"Red Will" Danaher: [also drunk] God bless all in this house...

Mary Kate Danaher: Wipe your feet!

"Red Will" Danaher: Thank you mum!

Thornton: Can't you get it through your head that I don't care about your money?

Mary Kate Danaher: But he does, and that's the whole point!

"Red Will" Danaher: [after falling in a stream] Have ya had enough?

Thornton: No!

"Red Will" Danaher: Well then, give a man a hand.

Michaleen Flynn: None 'o that now, none 'o that. It's a bold sinful man y'are Sean Thornton. And who taught you to be playin' patty-fingers in the Holy Water?

Thornton: Just bein' polite, is all.

Thornton: Si' down, si' down. That's what chairs are for.

Thornton: [During the big fight scene and after getting doused with water for the nth time] Thanks.

Thornton: [Repeated line] Why can't you boys ever make a delivery ON TIME?

Thornton: Alright listen up, douche-bags! All of ya! There's a load of toxic waste sittin' on the dock at TechStar, now who wants it? TechStar's throwin' in an extra two grand for this one... Z!

'Z': I'm sorry Thornton man, my truck's runnin' real bad right now, needs a serious tune-up.

Thornton: Johnson!

Johnson: Hemroids! I... I got hemoroids.

Thornton: You ARE a hemoroid... Jimmy!

Jimmy: Whooping cough, boss!

[coughs]

Thornton: I was afraid of this...

Rafe, Victor: [Both yelling loudly] Babeeeeey!