The Best The Legend of Tarzan Quotes

John: The Tekes say an elephant's eyes speak the greatest language. Who else can make you feel so much without a word?

Jane: [narrating] They are singing the legend of Tarzan. For many moons he was thought to be an evil spirit - a ghost in the trees. They speak of his power over the animals of the jungle. Because his spirit came from them. He understood them. And learned to be as one with them.

George: You look like you're about to give me a hug.
John: I wasn't.
George: Looked like you were.
[they embrace]

Leon: Stop shooting! You'll hit the girl!
Leon: [watching her get away] That woman...

George: [looking out over the ledge] How are we suppose to catch a train going 40 miles an hour?
John: Gravity...
[he and the natives jump off one at a time]

John: Your son killed the only person who ever cared about me.
Chief: It was an animal.
John: She was my mother.
Chief: How was he to know? My son was just a boy! Not like you! Where was your honor?
John: I... I had none. I had none.

[last lines]
Leon: [Leon clings onto the bead chain Tarzan is clutching] Tarzan?
[Tarzan coldly starts releasing his grip]
Leon: TARZAN!
[Tarzan continues to let the bead chain slip from his hands]
Leon: John?
[Tarzan lets the bead chain slip from his fingers]
Leon: JOHN!
[falls back into the jaws of the approaching crocodiles]

George: Leopold has spent the last 7 years getting control of the Congo. He used up his entire fortune building that railroad of his, and shut off access to 99% of the country. Why? Because he wants to be the first monarch in history who doesn't want people to see his good deeds? I don't buy it.

George: You, are Tarzan. Lord of the apes, King of the jungle. "Me, Tarzan. You, Jane."

Title: At the Berlin conference of 1884 the world's colonial powers took it upon themselves to divide up the African Congo. King Leopold of Belgium claimed the vast Congo basin, rich in ivory and minerals. Five years later he had run up hige debts in his ambition to exploit his new colony. Desperate for funds and running out of money to pay his army, he sent his most trusted servant, Leon Rom, to the Congo to source the legendary diamonds of Opar.

[first lines]
Captain: Mr. Rom.
Leon: [looking up at stone] Opar! We found it.
Belgian: Captain Moulle?
Captain: Form your lines...
Belgian: [the machine gun is rolled forward] Maxim ready, sir!
Captain: Steady... Wait... Fire!

George: I'm still coming with you.
John: You can't keep up.
George: I might not be able to keep up with Tarzan, but I sure as hell can keep up with *you*.

John: Are you aware that you always seem not going to do something right before you do it?
George: Yeah? Well. That's only since I've been saddled with your company.

George: What I wouldn't give for a horse right now. Why is it people don't ride zebras?
John: Horses kick to escape. Zebras continue until you are dead.
George: Zeebra. Zehbra. Tomayto. Tomahto.
John: It's nearly impossible to take the wild out of something born to it.
George: It seem to work with you. Look. I feel foolish for asking, but... Can you really talk to animals?
John: You're an educated man, Dr. Williams. You tell me.

Leon: [about chief Mbonga's vengeance] What did Tarzan do?
Jane: He killed his only son.
Leon: Oh.
Jane: Mm. And get ready, because that is nothing compare to what he will do to you.
Leon: Your husband's wildness disturbs me more than I can easily express. Whereas your spirit...

Leon: People love a good story. Yeah, few are born blue bloods like your husband. But everyone can relate to a low born scrapper who rescued his king from bankruptcy and saved the honor of his nation. That is a man who will never be forgotten.

Jane: [explaining to George as the village sings around the campfire] They are singing the legend of Tarzan. For many moons he was thought to be an evil spirit - a ghost in the trees. They speak of his power over the animals of the jungle. Because his spirit came from them. He understood them. And learned to conquer them. His ape mother, Kala, loved him as her own. And his ape brother, Akut, treated him with kindness and respect. He considered all men to be his enemies, since other tribes would hunt his troop as a rite of passage. Chief Muviro knew what he was. You must get to him. Since no man ever started with less.