Tintin Quotes

[Tintin, Haddock and Snowy are in the lifeboat; Tintin rows]
Tintin: We have to get to Bagghar ahead of Sakharine.
Captain Haddock: I know, I know. Why?
Tintin: Because he has the third model ship.
Captain Haddock: How do you know?
Tintin: The Sheik collects old ships, and

this...
[shows a photo of the model to Haddock]
Tintin: ... is the prize of his collection.
Captain Haddock: Blistering blue barnacles, that is the Unicorn!
Tintin: Captain, do you see the distortion around the model?
Captain Haddock: Uh-huh, aye.
Tintin: It means that Ben

Salaad exhibits it in a bulletproof glass case in his palace.
Captain Haddock: And Sakharine is going there to steal it.
Tintin: Yes, he has a secret weapon. The Milanese Nightingale, but that won't be enough to solve the mystery, and that is why Sakharine needs you. That's why he made you his prisoner. There is something he needs you to remember.

Captain Haddock: I don't follow you.
Tintin: I read it in a book.
[sits down]
Tintin: That only a true Haddock can discover the secret of the Unicorn.
[Haddock gasps and smiles as if he remembers something; Tintin smiles back]
Captain Haddock: I don't remember anything about anything.

Tintin: But you must know about your ancestors, Sir Francis-- It's your family legacy.
Captain Haddock: My memory is not what it used to be.
Tintin: Well, what did it used to be?
Captain Haddock: I've forgotten.
[Snowy whines]
Tintin: Captain... can you get us to Bagghar?

Captain Haddock: [offended] What sort of a stupid question is that?
[stands up]
Captain Haddock: Give me those oars! I'll show you some real seamanship, laddie.

Captain Haddock: [turns the handle of a locked door] Barnacles! Someone's locked the door!
Tintin: Well, is there a key?
Captain Haddock: A key? Ah.
[Haddock's breath makes Tintin gag]
Captain Haddock: Yes, now, that would be the problem.
[Tintin struggles to keep his balance; follows Haddock who

opens the door to the crew's sleeping quarters]
Captain Haddock: Mr. Jaggerman, top bunk in the centre, keeper of the keys. Careful, mate. He's a restless sleeper on account of the tragic loss of his eyelids.
Tintin: He lost his eyelids?
Captain Haddock: Aye. Now, that was a card game to remember.
[chuckles]

Captain Haddock: Oh, you really had to be there.

[Tintin has escaped and stumbled into a room on the second deck of the ship, where he meets the eternally intoxicated Captain Haddock for the first time]
Captain Haddock: [brandashing a bent pipe; thinking Tintin is an intruder] So... you were trying' to catch me wi' my trousers down, huh?
Tintin: [dodging Haddock's blows] I would keep your trousers

up, all the same to you.
Captain Haddock: [about Shakarine] He was planning all of this, trying to bump me off! He sent you here to kill me, huh?
Tintin: What are you talking about?
Captain Haddock: I knew he was going send someone to do th' job! Me murdered in bed by a baby-faced assassin!
[Snowy grabs a hold of

Haddock's pants with his teeth]
Captain Haddock: [trying to shake Snowy off] Arrgh!
Tintin: No, No! You've got it all wrong! I'm not an assassin.
[Captain Haddock stops fighting]
Tintin: I was captured by a gang of thugs!
[There is a pause; Haddock begins to cry comically]
Captain Haddock:

[tearfully] Oh, the filthy swine! He's turned the whole crew against me!
Tintin: Who did?
Captain Haddock: [still blubbering] Ah, the sour-faced man with the sugary name. He has bumped 'em off. Every last one of 'em!
Tintin: You mean, Sakharine?
Captain Haddock: [vehemently] NOBODY takes MY ship!

Tintin: You're the captain?
Captain Haddock: [sardonically] Of course, I am. WHO else would I be?

Sakharine: [grabs Tom after the ship sinks a lifeboat] You idiots! What have you done?
Tom: We killed them, boss, like you wanted.
Sakharine: No! NOT like I wanted! I needed Haddock alive!
Allan: Wait a minute, boss! There are two boats missing!
Tom: So, that one must have been a decoy.

[Sakharine grabs the searchlight, then spots a note Tintin dropped lying on the deck; picks it up; it says, "Bagghar"]
Sakharine: They're on to us and our destination.
[turns to Tom]
Sakharine: Find them!
[points his cane]
Sakharine: Make absolutely certain they never reach Bagghar!

Tom: Yes, boss.