The African Queen Movie Lines
"Nothing a man can’t do if he believes in himself."
- Charlie Alnut
"You know, I’ve only known such excitement a few times before. A few times, in my dear brother’s sermons, when the Spirit was really upon him."
- Rose
"By the authority vested in me by Kaiser Wilhelm II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution."
- Captain
"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above."
- Rose
The African Queen: Directed by John Huston. With Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull. In WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship.