The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Douglas Fairbanks: Don Diego Vega, Señor Zorro
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Quotes
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[Diego is apathetically wooing the woman his father commanded him to marry]
Zorro : I have a servant - a wonder at the guitar. Tonight I shall order him to come out and play beneath your window.
Lolita Pulido : I have a maid - passionately fond of music!
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[Zorro is passionately wooing Lolita]
Zorro : If this could be - The high Sierras I would level to your feet - The wild waves on Capistrano's shore should pay you homage - I'd make the desert a million roses yield - - to die in shame before your beauty- If this could be!
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Lolita Pulido : Why do wear a mask?
Zorro : Perhaps to hide the features of a De Bergerac.
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Zorro : I give you a safe rule, good landlady. Never do anything on an empty stomach - but eat!
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Zorro : Once, in a garden I saw a beautiful rose - I sought to pluck it - quickly. It stung me - Then - - slowly - - cautiously - I reached for it - - and the rose was mine!
Lolita Pulido : Indeed! Then I'm but another rose?
Zorro : An, no señorita. You are too wonderful! I dare not even hope.
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Don Diego Vega : Fetch me a pot of honey - - and serve wine to everybody.
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Don Diego Vega : I detest swords and bloodshed - but - to rid our beautiful country of a menace is a noble deed.
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Zorro : Justice for all! Punishment for the oppressors of the helpless - from the governor down.
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Lolita Pulido : Your swordsmanship? Where did you learn the blade?
Zorro : In Spain, señorita, where there are no eyes like yours.
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Zorro : Oh, such lips! Turn not away. Your face is heaven - all else is blackness!
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Sgt. Pedro Gonzales : We seek the vulture, Zorro!
Don Diego Vega : You're too fat, Gonzales. Poison the mountain tops and set your traps in the clouds - perhaps you'll have better luck.
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Lolita Pulido : I - give you - freely - the kiss he would have taken.
[Kiss]
Lolita Pulido : I fear for your safety, señor.
Zorro : Fear not - their wits are as slow as their blades. The weapons you use pierce deep, señorita.
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Don Diego Vega : So many unpleasant things happen - - it is most fatiguing.
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Zorro : You idlers! You wasters! You fashion-plates! You sit and sip your wine while the naked back of an unprotesting soldier of Christ is lashed with the whip!
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Zorro : The heaven-kissed hills of your native California swarm with the sentinels of oppression! Are your pulses dead? Thank God, mine is not - and I pledge you my blood's as noble as the best!
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Zorro : No force that tyranny could bring would dare oppose us - once united. Our country's out of joint. It is for us caballeros, and us alone, to set it right!
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Zorro : Justice for all!
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Zorro : You trust me, Señorita?
Lolita Pulido : To love is to trust, señor.
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Lolita Pulido : You talk - you fight - you look like Zorro!
Don Diego Vega : And I love like Zorro...