Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

Errol Flynn: Don Juan de Maraña

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• [last lines] 

  Leporello : Juan! No more romance, huh?

  Don Juan : My dear friend, there's a little bit of Don Juan in every man, and since I am Don Juan, there must be more of it in me!

• Don Juan : Beloved, no power on Earth could've kept me from you. In all this world there's been but one image in my heart, one vision before my eyes...

  Catherine : Yes, yes, go on...

  Don Juan : I have loved you since the beginning of time.

  Catherine : But you only met me yesterday...

  Don Juan : Why, that was when time began!

• Don Juan : [to Duke De Lorca]  The sword is not for a traitor. You'll die by the knife!

• Catherine : But how long will you love me?

  Don Juan : Sweet lady, love is not measured in terms of time, only in ecstasy!

• Duke de Lorca : [preparing to fight Don Juan]  I warned you, senor! This time I shall cut deeply!

  Don Juan : [unintimidated]  This time I'm wearing my old clothes!

• King Phillip III : We consider Don Lorca the greatest living duellist in Spain.

  Don Juan : That's certainly the mark of a good duellist, you majesty - to be living.

• Don Juan : [to Queen Margaret]  Like most other men there has always been an imaginary woman in my life. I endow her with all the virtues, I clothe her in perfection. Naturally I search for her in vain. I thought she could never exist except in my mind. Now I find out she does.

• Don Juan : It seems to me Your Grace is preparing for war.

  Duke de Lorca : Does the idea frighten you?

  Don Juan : Frankly it does. I'm by nature a peaceful man, Your Grace. It's true I've done some fighting in my time, but it's usually been for something worthwhile like, uh, a beautiful woman. To risk your skin for a piece of extra ground - that is terrifying!

• Don Juan : All my life I seem to have been stumbling around as if in darkness. I am no longer.

  Queen Margaret : Silence! You have no right to speak to me that way. I forbid you.

  Don Juan : But I would never have spoken except by your command.

  Queen Margaret : Then I was wrong to command you. Wrong to believe that you could reform. Or that friendship and loyalty could ever replace your desire for another conquest.

• Catherine : But you've made love to so many women.

  Don Juan : Catherine, an artist may paint a thousand canvasses before achieving one work of art, would you deny a lover the same practice?

• Duke de Lorca : May I remind you, my dear fellow, that in a conflict one must choose a side. The middle ground is frequently the most dangerous.

  Don Juan : I've been in the middle so many times, your grace... it doesn't disturb me.

• Don Juan : A man gives up everything: a rich full life and the first time he tries to be utterly sincere, what happens?

  Leporello : That's exactly what I'm trying to find out.

  Don Juan : Well, mind your own business!

• Count D'Orsini : [finding Don Juan with his fiancee]  You'll not get away so easily, senor. You're caught!

  Don Juan : [sardonically]  The story of my life!

• Don Juan : [to Count de Polan]  Your Excellency, I don't consider myself particularly wasteful or useless. I'm just seeking happiness, the same as any man. Our viewpoints differ that's all.

• Duke de Lorca : Tell me, Don Juan, do you hire men to spread the words of your romantic conquests.

  Don Juan : No, Your Excellency, that's a service that's always been done for me free of charge.

  Duke de Lorca : You have a ready tongue. It's a pity it's been used in such idle pursuits.

  Don Juan : A matter of opinion, Your Grace. Some men prefer the conquest of beauty to the conquest of the throne.

• Duke de Lorca : Next time I shall cut you deeply.

  Don Juan : Next time I shall wear my old clothes.

• Queen Margaret : I asked you that when I was Queen, but I am no longer.

  Don Juan : You are. You always will be. I shall be the only one who knew that for just a little while there was no Queen.

• Cecil : Who is this?

  Don Juan : [to Catherine]  You tell him.

• Lady Diana : You're here at last. You found me!

  Don Juan : Indeed I have.

• Don Juan : [to Cecil, Catherine's husband]  Do you think it's fair to leave a beautiful young woman like this alone, neglected while you indulge your own selfish pleasures?

• Don Juan : When did you last tell her she was beautiful?

  Cecil : I don't have to tell her. She's my wife.

  Don Juan : Wrong! You should remind her of her beauty every day of her life. Write her poetry. Send her flowers.

  Catherine : And jewelry.

• Leporello : There must be something in life more important than the pursuit of women.

  Don Juan : Yes, there must be. But what?

• Don Juan : This is not the Madrid I once knew. No life, no laughter.

  Leporello : That'll all be changed now that you're back.

  Don Juan : Thank you.

• Don Juan : Leporello, quick.

  Leporello : What now?

  Don Juan : Husband.

  Leporello : Horses.

• Don Juan : I must keep a diary.

  Leporello : Oh, I wouldn't start one now. It would look ridiculous just to have one entry.

• Count de Polan : I labor to achieve peace between England and Spain. This marriage was an important step in that direction.

  Don Juan : I always thought marriage was a step in the opposite direction.