Hawaii (1966)

Julie Andrews: Jerusha Bromley

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Quotes 

• Charles Bromley : And this is my daughter, Miss Jerusha.

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, Reverend Hale.

  [She extends her hand to greet him; he sneezes violently] 

  Abner Hale : Oh dear. Did I spray?

  Charles Bromley : No, no, no, not at all.

• Jerusha Bromley Hale : Is it possible for anything to seem lovely without God having wanted it so?

• Jerusha Bromley Hale : [singing]  For my raggedy-taggedy, little ol' scraggedy, wishing doll...

• Abner Hale : I have always admired the character of Jerusha as set forth in holy scripture. I think, particularly on second Kings, 15:33. "Five and twenty years old was Jotham when he began to reign. And he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok." It's a lovely verse.

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : Yes. It's beautiful.

• Abner Hale : You wouldn't think of going to Hawaii with a man like me - or, would you?

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : Not if he wasn't my husband.

  Abner Hale : Oh! Goodness! I certainly didn't mean to imply that!

• Abner Hale : Skin is but flesh. Flesh is corruption incarnate!

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : The flesh was given to us by God, too.

  Abner Hale : As a burden. As a temptation. A temptation that you are to me, at this very moment.

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : That's one of the purposes of marriage, isn't it?

• Abner Hale : I'm utterly depraved! I think of nothing but your loveliness, Jerusha.

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : Is it possible for anything to seem lovely without God having wanted it so?

• Jerusha Bromley Hale : I felt so good after my bath, I brushed my skin with oil of lilac.

  Abner Hale : I smell it. Moses forbade the use of perfume!

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : Proverbs say that ointment and perfume rejoice the heart.

  Abner Hale : Isiah cursed the woman who used perfume...

• Jerusha Bromley Hale : Refer, I'm married.

  Capt. Rafer Hoxworth : Married?

  [looks at Abner, back to Jerusha] 

  Capt. Rafer Hoxworth : Oh, my God, not to him? What did he do? Pray you into bed?

• Abner Hale : If only I'd had a chance to save it.

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : You had that chance.

  Abner Hale : I mean it's soul!

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : I mean the child.

• Jerusha Bromley Hale : I've never seen a people more generous, more loving, more *filled* with Christian sweetness than these. I will *not* believe that God has rejected them simply because they haven't been baptized.

• Abner Hale : My ministry here is at an end.

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : Your ministry here is not ended. We'll stay here in Lahaina and shelter and protect these people. We will win them to a merciful God - with bonds a charity so strong, they will belong to Him forever.

  Abner Hale : How?

  Jerusha Bromley Hale : By offering what you've always valued most and found it hardest to give - to them and to me: your love.

• Jerusha Bromley Hale : Abner, do you believe every word in the Bible literally?

  Abner Hale : Believe? the Bible is God's holy word written exactly as He commanded. And I believe all. I believe in heaven and in hell and original sin and God's terrible all-consuming wrath!