Kim (1950)

Dean Stockwell: Kim

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• Kim : How do you fair on the road?

  Lama : On charity. What is the custom of charity in this town? In silence or aloud?

  Kim : Those who beg in silence starve in silence.

  Lama : I beg as the master begged. Even as he went, so do I.

• Kim : He who travels alone travels fastest.

  Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard : But not as safely.

• Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard : Well done, friend of all the world, well done.

  Kim : Gratitude is good for the ear, but a rupee is better for the stomach.

  Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard : One day you'll make a great trader.

• Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard : [With urgency]  Down! Keep down! The night is full of eyes!

  Kim : But for this meeting, your head would be full of holes.

• Kim : [to the letter writer]  What manner of inquisitive goat are you? Thy mother was married under a basket and thy father was a sweeper of the stables.

• Kim : [as they are about to cross a stream, Kim spots a cobra on a rock]  No, holy one, don't go there. See - a cobra, king cobra!

  Lama : [Kim picks up a large stone to kill it]  No, let him live out his life! He's bound on the wheel of life as we are. Great evil this soul must have done to be reborn in this shape!

• Kim : Be careful, Mahbub Ali.

  Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard : [With bravado]  Mahbub Ali does not die tonight.