The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)

Ronald Colman: Willard Holmes

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Quotes 

• Willard Holmes : You're wasting yourself here, Miss Worth--like an orchid in a bucket of sand.

  Barbara Worth : You don't know the desert as I do. It is beautiful.

  Willard Holmes : Beautiful perhaps--for one moonlit night--but if you could see the big cities--if they could see you!

  Barbara Worth : To redeem the desert--to make it all one garden--Isn't that a fine thing to do?

  Willard Holmes : But you don't belong here among these human cactus plants.

• Willard Holmes : This hell-hole will never be anything but a graveyard. You could see it if your brains weren't fried.

  Abe Lee : Maybe we ain't got the brains--maybe you ain't got the guts.

  Willard Holmes : I'll go as far as you or any other man will go.

• Barbara Worth : Mr. Holmes, do you realize that to all these people you are an angel from heaven?

  Willard Holmes : I'm really only the engineer for a soulless corporation bent on making big money quick.

• Willard Holmes : Why do you and Mr. Lee always speak Spanish?

  Barbara Worth : It's the language of our desert. You ought to learn it.

  Willard Holmes : What is the Spanish for 'I love you'?

  [Barbara starts to walk away] 

  Willard Holmes : Please forgive me!

  Barbara Worth : Out here, Mr. Holmes, one doesn't learn how to say 'I love you' - one learns how to *prove* it. Buenos notes, señor.

• Willard Holmes : I just came to say I can't come to dinner. I'm ordered to the river.

  Barbara Worth : I'm sorry. I was baking this pie especially for you.

  Willard Holmes : I'm going East soon and I don't want to go alone.

  Barbara Worth : I'll bake you a pie to take with you.

  Willard Holmes : I want to take *you* along!

• Barbara Worth : Am I killing you?

  Willard Holmes : I rather enjoy it. Do you know how wonderful you are?

• Willard Holmes : [to Barbara]  When the fight is won, I'm coming back for you!