Liam Neeson credited as playing...
Rob Roy
- Mary MacGregor: Robert, there is more. I am carrying a child and I do not know who is the father."
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Ach, Mary...
- Mary MacGregor: I could not kill it, husband.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: It's not the child that needs killing.
- Son: Father, will the MacGregors ever be kings again?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: All men with honor are kings. But not all kings have honor.
- Son: What is honor?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Honor is...
- [Mary looking on]
- Robert Roy MacGregor: what no man can give you and none can take away. Honor is a man's gift to himself.
- Son: Do women have it?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Women are the heart of honor, and we cherish and protect it in them. You must never mistreat a woman, or malign a man, nor stand by and see another do so.
- Son: How do you know if you have it?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Never worry on the getting of it. It grows in you, and speaks to you. All you need do is listen.
- [on their way to Robert's duel with Cunningham]
- Duke of Argyll: Tell me, MacGregor, is this matter of honor concerning your wife?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: It's concerning me, Your Grace. Mr. Cunningham and I have matters outstanding.
- Duke of Argyll: She will not thank you for making her a widow, honor or no.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Perhaps you'd like to wager a sum for her maintenance.
- Duke of Argyll: Well, if it will help you die any the easier, I'll lay twenty guineas for her.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Fifty would go further.
- Duke of Argyll: By God, you have a style to you, MacGregor! I like that!
- Referee: You are here on a matter of honor. I am here to see that you settle it honorably. There will be no back-stabbing, you will not throw your blades, nor will you use weapons other than those agreed. If quarter should be asked...
- Robert Roy MacGregor: No quarter will be asked.
- Archibald Cunningham: Or given.
- [Robert asks the Duke to arrange a duel with Cunningham]
- Duke of Argyll: MacGregor!
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Sir?
- Duke of Argyll: He will kill you, MacGregor. I would lose money I wagered otherwise.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Your lordship has my permission to profit what way he will.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Do you know how fine you are to me, Mary MacGregor?
- Mary MacGregor: And you to me.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: You should have told me, Mary.
- Mary MacGregor: Oh Robert, I should have but I could not. You were right.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: No, you were right. I must have my own way too often. I should have packed my pride and given Montrose his way!
- Mary MacGregor: No, Robert!
- Robert Roy MacGregor: And all this has come on us. Craigrostan would still be ours, Alasdair and Coll would be alive...
- Mary MacGregor: And wrong would have been done you!
- Robert Roy MacGregor: And what about the wrong done you? Wrong past bearing.
- Mary MacGregor: No, not past bearing! Not past bearing. Not if I have my Robert, and he has himself. And you would not, not if you had done a lesser man's bidding.
- [Robert is silent]
- Mary MacGregor: "Honor is the gift a man gives himself." You told our boys that. Would you have stolen from yourself that which makes you Robert Roy MacGregor?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Did you boys know there's going to be a new addition to the family?
- Duncan MacGregor: Is it inside you?
- Mary MacGregor: Yes.
- Duncan MacGregor: How does it get out?
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Same road it got in.
- Duke of Argyll: I will know who to wager on, the next time.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: [utterly mirthless chuckle] I hope Your Grace will live so long.
- Archibald Cunningham: What did you do with that bag of guts Killearn? Vex me not, McGregor, or I shall have you dragged a while. And I am a man of my word.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: You're a thief, a murderer and a violator of women.
- Archibald Cunningham: Aah... I had hoped you'd come to me long since on that score.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: If I had known earlier you would have been dead sooner.
- Archibald Cunningham: I will tell you something, to take with you. Your wife was far sweeter forced than many are willing. And truth put to it, I think not all of her objected...
- Robert Roy MacGregor: If it's a boy, call him Robert. If a lass, name her after my love, Mary McGregor.
- Will Guthrie: I hear you back-stabbed Tam Sibbald.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: Were you and Tam kin?
- Will Guthrie: Near enough. I shagged his sister.
- Killearn: [whispered aside] Likely so did Tam.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: What passes for honor with me is likely the same as what passes with Your Lordship. When my word is given, it is good.
- Montrose: Well, you are to be congratulated on such cheaply-bought nobility.
- Montrose: You are damned, MacGregor. Damned to hell.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: [laughing] Come, Your Lordship. Leave the Devil some work. You've done enough for one day.
- Robert Roy MacGregor: There best be no skullduggery here, Killearn. Alan McDonald stands under my protection.
- Killearn: [sarcastic] Well, that's a great comfort to us all, I must say. What with a thousand pounds at risk.
- Mary: What's gnawing on you, Robert?
- Rob Roy: I've made up my mind to borrow money from Montrose to buy cattle at Creiff market and sell at Carlisle.
- Mary: How much money?
- Rob Roy: £1,000. Believe me, Mary, it will turn profit. £6 in Creiff is £12 in Carlisle. And I know cattle. I can drive them faster and deliver them fatter than any man in the kingdom.
- Mary: Why would the Marquis of Montrose lend a McGregor £1,000?
- Rob Roy: For profit, what else? It's an investment as much as a loan.
- Mary: So it's business partners you are now, you and the Marquis.
- Rob Roy: Keep that tongue for your boys, woman. I didn't tell you my mind to be flayed for it.
- Mary: You know I love the bones of you, Robert McGregor. But you take too much to heart that cannot be helped. It must be helped.
- Rob Roy: All right, but not today.