Col. Francis Burke:
Jamie, you're a wicked, wicked lad, and harm will come to me reputation for letting you lead me to piracy!
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
Col. Francis Burke:
Not much time to remember all the girls you've known, all the laughter you've heard, all the gold you've spent, and all the plans you had to spend more. The places we've not seen, Jamie! The things that lie about the world, the fun of it!
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
Col. Francis Burke:
Now be off with you while I still have stomach to eat. And if you've got any of those screeching bagpipes about, please don't toot them so I can hear.
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
Col. Francis Burke:
To think I was lured to this uninhabitable land to risk me life with amateurs!
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
Col. Francis Burke:
We need money! It's blood for our veins! It's air for the lungs of us!
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
Col. Francis Burke:
Why, you swindling scum of a coward! You mouse-hearted imitation of a man! You green crawling snake that slipped up from the slime when your thieving mother wasn't looking!
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
Col. Francis Burke:
You have the honor to address Colonel Francis Burke, gentleman of Dublin, chevalier of France, and hunted refugee of a devastated ragtag army.
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
--Roger Livesey (as Col. Francis Burke) in The Master of Ballantrae
Doctor Frank Reeves:
[talking to Peter] I've got bad news for you.
June: Then why the grin?
Doctor Frank Reeves: You're going with me.
June: Where to?
Doctor Frank Reeves: [talking to both June and Peter] To my house, for two reasons, first I want to meet this chap next time he drops in and second I like a nice girl around the house and she only come to see me to borrow a book, and she's a slow reader
--Roger Livesey (as Doctor Frank Reeves) in A Matter of Life and Death
June: Then why the grin?
Doctor Frank Reeves: You're going with me.
June: Where to?
Doctor Frank Reeves: [talking to both June and Peter] To my house, for two reasons, first I want to meet this chap next time he drops in and second I like a nice girl around the house and she only come to see me to borrow a book, and she's a slow reader
--Roger Livesey (as Doctor Frank Reeves) in A Matter of Life and Death
Doctor Frank Reeves:
A weak mind isn't strong enough to hurt itself. Stupidity has saved many a man from going mad.
--Roger Livesey (as Doctor Frank Reeves) in A Matter of Life and Death
--Roger Livesey (as Doctor Frank Reeves) in A Matter of Life and Death
Doctor Frank Reeves:
Ah, there's June. She walks in beauty, like the night... Only she's cycling and it's daytime.
--Roger Livesey (as Doctor Frank Reeves) in A Matter of Life and Death
--Roger Livesey (as Doctor Frank Reeves) in A Matter of Life and Death
