The Wicker Man Quotes

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Lord Summerisle: Do sit down, Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent.

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Sergeant Howie: Your lordship seems strangely... unconcerned. Lord Summerisle: Well I'm confident your suspicions are wrong, Sergeant. We don't commit murder here. We're a deeply religious people. Sergeant Howie: Religious? With ruined churches, no m...

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Sergeant Howie: Don't you see that killing me is not going to bring back your apples?

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Lord Summerisle: I think I could turn and live with animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one of them kneels to another or...

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Lord Summerisle: Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.

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Sergeant Howie: What religion can they possibly be learning jumping over bonfires? Lord Summerisle: Parthenogenesis. Sergeant Howie: What? Lord Summerisle: Literally, as Miss Rose would doubtless say in her assiduous way, reproduction without sexual ...

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May Morrison: You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice.

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Sergeant Howie: I believe in the life eternal, as promised to us by our Lord, Jesus Christ. Lord Summerisle: That is good. For believing what you do, we confer upon you a rare gift, these days - a martyr's death.

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Willow: A man who would come here of his own free will. Librarian: A man who has come here with the power of a king. By representing the law... Willow: A man who would come here as a virgin... Librarian: A man who has come here as a fool!

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Lord Summerisle: [referring to sacrifices] Animals are fine, but their acceptability is limited. A little child is even better, but not *nearly* as effective as the right kind of adult.

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Sergeant Howie: And what of the TRUE God? Whose glory, churches and monasteries have been built on these islands for generations past? Now sir, what of him? Lord Summerisle: He's dead. Can't complain, had his chance and in modern parlance, blew it.

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Sergeant Howie: [upon seeing the Wicker Man for the first time] O, God! O, Jesus Christ!

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Lord Summerisle: [singing] Summer is icumen in, loudly sing cuckoo. Grows the seed and blows the mead, and springs the wood anew. Sing, cuckoo! Ewe bleats harshly after lamb, cows after calves make moo.

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Sergeant Howie: You are despicable little liars!

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Willow: Some things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors.

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May Morrison: Can I do anything for you, Sergeant? Sergeant Howie: No, I doubt it, seeing you're all raving mad!

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[outside, several young girls are dancing naked over a fire] Lord Summerisle: Good afternoon, Sergeant Howie. I trust the sight of the young people refreshes you. Sergeant Howie: No sir, it does NOT refresh me.

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Daisy Pringle: The little old beetle goes 'round and 'round. Always the same way, y'see, until it ends up right up tight to the nail. Poor old thing! Sergeant Howie: 'Poor old thing'? Then why in God's name do you do it, girl?

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