Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
Captain Ahab:
Blacksmith, I set ye a task. Take these harpoons and lances. Melt them down. Forge me new weapons that will strike deep and hold fast. But do not douse them in water; they must have a proper baptism. What say ye, all ye men? Will you give as much blood as shall be needed to temper the steel?
Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
Captain Ahab:
By heavens man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and fate is the handspike.
Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
Captain Ahab:
Captain Gardner, I seek the white whale, your own son's murderer. I am losing time... Goodbye, and fare thee well, I say. God help you, Captain Gardiner.
Captain Gardiner: God forgive you, Captain Ahab.
Captain Gardiner: God forgive you, Captain Ahab.
Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
Captain Ahab:
From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.
Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
Gregory Peck
(as Captain Ahab)
Captain Ahab:
I'll follow him around the Horn, and around the Norway maelstrom, and around perdition's flames before I give him up.
Orson Welles
(as Father Mapple)
Father Mapple:
Delight is to him who coming to day him down can say, "O Father, mortal or immortal, here I die. I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's. Yet this is nothing. I leave eternity to Thee. For what is man, that he should live out the lifetime of his God?"
Richard Basehart
(as Ishmael)
Ishmael:
[in voice-over narration] He did not feel the wind, or smell the salt air. He only stood, staring at the horizon, with the marks of some inner crucifixion and woe deep in his face.
Richard Basehart
(as Ishmael)
Ishmael:
[in voice-over narration] Long days and nights we strained at the oars while a white whale swam freely on, widening the waters between himself and Ahab's vengeance.
