Lord Jim

Schomberg:
The Captain of this ship is... do you know Gentleman Brown?

Cornelius:
For this sort of work, we don't need any gentlemen.

Schomberg:
[laughs] This "Gentleman" Captain Brown has given more business to Death than the bubonic plague. From Java to Fiji, he's wanted for piracy, slavery, mutiny, rape, murder, and some things that aren't even mentioned in the Bible!

Gentleman Brown:
[to Cornelius after breaking his liquor bottle with his sword] Drunk, you're useless... unreliable!

Schomberg:
Sober he's the same.

Gentleman Brown:
If an army couldn't get this treasure out, what makes you think that we can?

Cornelius:
The General was too ambitious. We just need to eliminate a certain... person.

Gentleman Brown:
You mean murder?

Cornelius:
Justice. Kill one pompous fool...

Gentleman Brown:
Let's see now: You're out, he's in - and *he's* the fool?

Gentleman Brown:
Now, where is this gold kept, is it guarded, if so, how, and by whom?

Cornelius:
How do I know I can trust you?

Gentleman Brown:
You don't know.

Cornelius:
What do you think?

Schomberg:
[shrugs] I'm a silent partner.

Cornelius:
Then I suppose we'll have to take each other's word as gentlemen?

Gentleman Brown:
[sighs] I suppose.

Gentleman Brown:
[to Cornelius] You have a natural talent for disaster! Try and improve yourself into an ordinary failure by keeping your mouth shut.

Stein:
[to Jim] You have too much pride in your humility.

Marlow:
[first lines; narrating] Joseph Conrad wrote, "If you want to know the age of the Earth, look upon the sea in a storm." But what storm could fully reveal the heart of a man?

Brierly:
Could you do what he did?

The French Officer:
Who knows? Under certain conditions, fear will come to any man. It's always there, waiting for us...

Marlow:
[Narrating] One hope kept Jim going - a hope common to most men. Rich or poor, strong or weak, who among us has not begged God for a second chance?

Lord Jim:
I've been a so-called coward and a so-called hero and there's not the thickness of a sheet of paper between them. Maybe cowards and heroes are just ordinary men who, for a split second, do something out of the ordinary. That's all.

Stein:
It might interest you to know that some men can never become heroes, and some heroes can never become men.

Lord Jim:
Some are lucky enough to become both.

Stein:
Who says they are lucky?

Stein:
I do not trust a man who does not respect money.

Cornelius:
[talking about his abdomen] Oh, I feel a gripping pain here, probably something I ate.

The General:
Probably a precious stone perhaps. Like all thingsgreat and small, it will pass, and when it does, give it back.

Gentleman Brown:
[referring to Jim] I think his majesty had pretentions to heroism, a form of mental disease induced by vanity.

Stein:
You must face the truth.

Lord Jim:
Truth? What is the truth? I've been a so-called coward and a so-called hero, and there's not the thickness of a piece off paper between them. Maybe cowards and heroes are just ordinary men, who for just a split second do something that is out of the ordinary. That's all.