Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye
(as Hubert Hawkins)

Griselda: I bring you a message from the princess.
Hubert Hawkins: The royal princess?
Griselda: Yes, she finds you most attractive and would like to meet you.
Hubert Hawkins: Me?
Griselda: She finds you passing fair, passing gracefully.
Hubert Hawkins: Tell her, "Thank you very much, but I'm just passing through."

Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye
(as Hubert Hawkins)

Hubert Hawkins: [disguised as an old man] Have you seen a group in the forest?
[Jean, pretending to be a deaf mute, makes a lot of hand gestures in response]
Hubert Hawkins: She says, "No."
Captain of the Guard: What took her so long?
Hubert Hawkins: Stutters.

Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye
(as Hubert Hawkins)

Hubert Hawkins: Why be gloomy, cut off thy nose to spite thy face? Listen to me. A nose is hard to replace.

Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury
(as Princess Gwendolyn)

Princess Gwendolyn: [to Griselda] Remember, if he dies, you die!

Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury
(as Princess Gwendolyn)

Princess Gwendolyn: Marry Griswold? Never!
King Roderick: What was that?
Princess Gwendolyn: He's a brute and a lout.
King Roderick: Brute or not, lout or not, if it pleases me you will marry Griswold.
Princess Gwendolyn: If it pleases you so much, you marry Griswold.


Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye
(as Hubert Hawkins)

[picking his weapon for the joust against Griswold]
Hubert Hawkins: I'll take one of those, one of those, ooh, a couple of those.
[he pauses and glances over at Griswold]
Hubert Hawkins: I'd better take them all.

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