Captain Vere:
Master-at-Arms, you possess too much knowledge for such a lowly post.
Master At Arms Claggert: Why, thank you, Sir.
Captain Vere: [impatiently] It's no flattery, Mr. Claggert. It's a melancholy fact!
--Peter Ustinov (as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain) in Billy Budd
Master At Arms Claggert: Why, thank you, Sir.
Captain Vere: [impatiently] It's no flattery, Mr. Claggert. It's a melancholy fact!
--Peter Ustinov (as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain) in Billy Budd
Captain Vere:
You know Seymour, there are some men who cannot stand too much perfection. They see it as a disease, which must be stamped out at it's first rash showing.
--Peter Ustinov (as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain) in Billy Budd
--Peter Ustinov (as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain) in Billy Budd
Lieutenant Seymour:
Aye sir, that is your right.
Captain Vere: It's no right. Which one of us here have rights? It's my duty and I must perform it.
--Peter Ustinov (as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain) in Billy Budd
Captain Vere: It's no right. Which one of us here have rights? It's my duty and I must perform it.
--Peter Ustinov (as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain) in Billy Budd