Moll Flanders (1996)

Morgan Freeman: Hibble

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• Hibble : Um, for your understanding, Flora, this is rather... delicate. Do you know what the male and female were intending?

  Flora : Sure! I seen dogs in the street doing it!

  Hibble : Yes... well, it's not quite the same thing.

  Flora : How do you know? You're not a dog!

• Hibble : I have planned this trip to the last detail and my schedule will be played out.

  Flora : Well, I's a need to pee in my schedule.

• Hibble : "Mrs. Allworthy never forced a woman into her service..."

  Moll Flanders : ...but, like a good horse trainer, she made sure that the process became so familiar that it was quite natural that one might eventually be broken and saddled.

• Hibble : Circumstances have taught me that a man's ethics are the only possessions he will take beyond the grave.

• Hibble : There are more compelling motives than fear.

• Hibble : Escaped from Cardiff prison hulks I did, with a highway alchemist named Gay; he could turn the lead in his pistols to gold

• Threatening Man : [Ruffian shoves Hibble as they pass each other]  Oy blackie, go' any news from the devil?

  Hibble : [Hibble decks him, hurting his hand]  Sent you that. How'd you like it?

• Hibble : "My body, a female, and..."

  Moll Flanders : ...my station, a bastard, is a prison of the flesh that I have worn for the length of my life.

• Hibble : Your mother, Moll Flanders, was a murderess, a whore, and a thief - by her own account. The loss of her soul, to some, was as of little consequence as an ember drafting up a chimney.

• Flora : Did you know her?

  Hibble : Can a man truly know any woman?

  Flora : You've got a snake for a tongue, haven't you?