Ivanhoe (1952)

Emlyn Williams: Wamba

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Quotes 

• Minor Role : Milord, there is a stranger at your gate who begs shelter. He is a Jew who calls himself Isaac of York.

  Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert : I share no roof with an infidel.

  Wamba : Why not, sir knight? For every Jew you show me who's not a Christian, l'll show you a Christian who's not a Christian.

• Wamba : A gentleman at last, and my first task is to steal a horse!

• Sir Cedric : Delayed? How so?

  Wamba : Well, when I heard Normans were approaching I ran to lock up my wife. But, she'd also heard they were approaching, and locked me up instead.

• Wamba : A cow jumped the moon, but a fool he jumps higher, from Wamba the serf, to Wamba the squire.

• Wamba : Sir Ivanhoe, I heard an old bear and a young bear growling. Which is the one who would leave the den?

  Ivanhoe : The young bear Wamba

  Wamba : Alone?

  Ivanhoe : Alone

  Wamba : No sire, I will go with you. My servant's collar and all.

  Ivanhoe : Is your heart not here with the Lady Rowena?

  Wamba : No sire. My heart is in there with yours

  [touches Ivanhoe's chest] 

  Ivanhoe : Then henceforth you shall be my Squire, Wamba.

  Wamba : Squire? Squire Wamba. Wamba the Squire. Why if it weren't this I'd be a gentleman

  [feels his servant's collar] 

  Wamba : .

  Ivanhoe : We'll have that collar off as soon as we're away from here.

• Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert : Are you for Richard, my lord, or John?

  Wamba : Richard and John had the same mother. One was a Norman, so what was the other?

  Sir Cedric : Both are Norman, true. But Richard, with all his faults, was for England.

  Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert : And John?

  Sir Cedric : John is for John.

• Sir Cedric : Squire Wamba! Squire Wamba! I'll Squire you, you renegade. I'll collar that neck again, or ring it!

  Wamba : Touched mylord. Is that the tone for one gentlemen to use to another?

  Sir Cedric : Get out of my sight before my wrath boils over and I squash you like a plum!