Ryan's Daughter (1970)

Arthur O'Sullivan: Mr. McCardle

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Quotes 

• Mr. McCardle : [Collins strikes McCardle after the mob strips Rosy]  You're taking advantage of your cloth, Father!

  Father Collins : That's what it's for.

• Thomas Ryan : [Corporal is reading a newspaper article about fighting in France]  It seems the Jerries are giving your brave lads out there a terrible scrimmage, then.

  Corporal : Aye.

  Mr. McCardle : Well, you see Tom, Jerry's a tougher proposition than unarmed Irish children.

  Corporal : As far as I know, Mr. McCardle, no children were killed!

  [laughs of disbelief] 

  Corporal : All right, there were. They get you in this uniform, you aim your gun where you're told to point it, and you pull the trigger. And so does Jerry... and so would you!

• Thomas Ryan : [the town has turned out to punish Rosy as an informer]  But why must it be Rosy?

  Mr. McCardle : Because she was fornicating with the fellow!

• Thomas Ryan : Will you imagine that fellow? A fortnight in Dublin. Does nothing, sees nothing.

  Mr. McCardle : It's working with children, makes a man childish.

  Thomas Ryan : No, it was that wife of his, knocked all the spirit out of him.

  Father Collins : She was a good, pure woman.

  Thomas Ryan : Pure, she was.