Khartoum (1966 film)

"[removes a head from a large pot] Is it the Englishman whose name was Frank Power? [removes another head from a second pot] Is it the Frenchman whose name was Herbin? [places a severed arm and hand in Gordons hands] Is it not your own ring? [Gordon stares horrified]"

"...but there is this: A world with no room for the Gordons, is a world that will return to the sands."

"Richard Johnson - Col. John Stewart: Gordons aide."

"I dont trust any man who consults God before he consults me."

"Ralph Richardson - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister"

"[patting his camel in goodbye] So we ride beneath no more desert stars, then. Ah, all things must end."

"Every man has a final weapon: his own life. If hes afraid to lose it, he throws the weapon away."

"If you, as a servant of your god, must use one hundred thousand warriors to destroy me, a solitary servant of my God, then you whisper to me Muhammed Ahmed: who will be remembered from Khartoum, your god or mine?"

"If my life has a single point, its this: Ive learned to be unafraid of death but never to be unafraid of failure."

"And when the Mahdi floats me down the Nile, the government will assume a pained expression and will say to her majesty and the churchmen and the anti-slavery people well, we sent Gordon; we did the best we could."

"I should prefer, Gordon Pasha, that you leave Khartoum now. You are not my enemy. Why should your blood sweeten the Nile?"

"It is sometimes wise, Gordon Pasha, to provide the man with a few sunny hours of fraudulent hope so that when night comes he will have a more perfect inward vision of the truth of his hopelessness."