Titus Quotes in The Squeeze (1987)

[only line, character's last words]

Titus: [to Rachel Dobs] I could have loved you.

Titus: [shows up at Nina's apartment with flowers] I make decision. We go to Paris. Make love for one week.

Nina: [laughs] Oh, Titus. You're fab. You're so sweet.

[face falls when he shows her tickets]

Nina: Oh, dear. Titus, I can't go to Paris with you.

Titus: You do not like Paris? You don't want to make love?

Nina: For a week? Oh, no, no, no.

Titus: Rome is but a wilderness of tigers.

Titus: Oh villains, Chiron and Demetrius. Here stands the spring whom you have stained with mud, this goodly summer with your winter mixed. You killed her husband, and for that vile fault two of her brothers were condemned to death, my hand cut off and made a merry jest, both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity, inhuman traitors, you constrained and forced. What would you say if I should let you speak? Villains, for shame, you could not beg for grace. Hark, wretches, how I mean to martyr you. This one hand yet is left to cut your throats whilst that Lavinia, 'tween her stumps doth hold the basin that receives your guilty blood. You know, your mother means to feast with me and calls herself Revenge and thinks me mad. Hark, villains. I shall grind your bones to dust, and with your blood and it I shall make a paste, and of the paste a coffin I will rear and make two pastries of your shameful heads. And bid that strumpet, your unhallowed dam, like to the earth, swallow her own increase! This is the feast I have bid her to, and this the banquet she shall surfeit on... And now prepare your throats.

Titus: He that wounded her hath hurt me more than had he killed me dead.

Lavinia: In peace and honor live Lord Titus long. My noble lord and father, live in fame. Lo, at this tomb my tributary tears I render for my brethren's obsequies, and at thy feet I kneel with tears of joy shed on this earth for thy return to Rome. O bless me here with thy victorious hand.

Titus: Kind Rome, that hast thoust lovingly reserved the cordial of mine age to glad my heart! Lavinia, live, outlive thy father's days and fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise.

Marcus Andronicus: Oh brother, speak with possibility and do not break into these deep extremes.

Titus: Are not my sorrows deep, having no bottom? Then be my passions bottomless with them.

Marcus Andronicus: But yet let reason govern thy lament.

Titus: If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes!

Titus: O handle not the theme, to talk of hands, Lest we remember still, that we have none.

Saturnius: [Titus is dressed as a cook] Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus?

Titus: Because I would be sure to have all well, To entertain your highness and your Empress.

Saturnius: What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?

Titus: Killed her, for whom my tears had made me blind.

Titus: [about his dog] Descartes' immediate goal is humanity, as surely as ours is divinity.

Titus: Why can't a duffer like me catch a fish? Isn't the answer obvious? Isn't it because at my present level of skill the fish would have to be so damned dumb and utterly unelusive as to not be worth catching? And how much more elusive should a thing as wondrous as a soul be? Fishermen should be the easiest of men to convince to search for their souls, because fishing is nothing but the pursuit of the elusive. How can you be so patient in searching for fish, and so hasty to write-off your soul because you can't see it?

Titus: [about Gus' rod and reel] You and I agreed, did we not, that "rodney" is oblivious to everything, say, but some weight and varnish.

Gus: We did.

Titus: Therefore, does it follow that he is just as oblivious to Gus? Even though Gus is his maker. Even though Gus controls his destiny. Even though Gus' - let's go ahead and call it Gus' - is his essence.

Gus: Yes, it follows.

Titus: Then, therefore, is it possible that maybe you and I are just as oblivious to the presence of a creator? Just as oblivious to a controller of our destiny? Just as oblivious to our essence. An essence that wields you and I even more deftly than you wield rodney.

Titus: You may have traveled an awfully long way to find me, but maybe I've travelled an awfully long way not to be found.