The Proposition quotes

View Quote I will civilize this land.

View Quote I wish to present you with a proposition. I know where Arthur Burns is. It is is a godforsaken place. The blacks won't go there, nor the trackers. Not even my own men. I suppose, in time, the bounty hunters will get him. But I have other plans. I aim to bring him down. I aim to show that he is a man like any other. I aim to hurt him. And what will most hurt him? Well, I've thought long and hard about that. And I've realized, Mr. Burns, that I must become a little more inventive in my methods.

View Quote I'm going to be with my brother

View Quote I've kept company with bad men all my life.

View Quote It's all your fault, Charlie. You should never have left us.

View Quote Look at that. Be humble of heart, Charlie. This is the end of things. You're my brother. You belong with me. We are a family. All of us.

View Quote Love. Love is the key. Love and family. For what are night and day, the sun, the moon, the stars without love and those you love around you? What could more hollow than to die alone, unloved?

View Quote Mikey's not the same stuff as us. We will be flung to the depths, you and I.

View Quote Molly O'Boyle, my arse.

View Quote Mr. Murphy, Russia, China, the Congo. Oh, I have traveled among unknown people in lands beyond the sea. But nothing, nothing could've prepared me for this godforsaken hole.

View Quote No more.

View Quote One more crack about the Irish, Mr. Lamb, and I'll shoot you. Am I clear?

View Quote Permit me to introduce myself. My name is Jellon Lamb. Citizen of the world, you might say, an adventurer, and, if I may be so bold, a man of no little education.

View Quote This may hurt.

View Quote What happened at the Hopkins place was unforgivable. I have never seen such a sickening sight. Did you know that that poor woman, Eliza Hopkins, had a child in her belly?