The Best Cora Quotes

Cora: The whole world's on fire isn't it.

Cora: Yes! Go ahead!
Duncan: What the bloody hell plan is this?
Cora: I want you to go!
Hawkeye: If we go, there's a chance there won't be a fight. There's no powder. If we don't go in that, there's no chance. None! Do you understand?
Duncan: Coward!

Cora: You've complimented me with your persistence and patience, but the decision I've come to is this. I would rather make the gravest of mistakes than surrender my own judgment.

Cora: They're going to hang you. Why didn't you leave when you had the chance?
Hawkeye: Because what I'm interested in is right here.

Hawkeye: My father warned me about you...
Cora: [interupting] Your Father?
Hawkeye: Chingachgook, he warned me about people like you.
Cora: Oh, he did?
Hawkeye: He said "Do not try to understand them".
Cora: What?
Hawkeye: Yes, and, "do not try to make them understand you. That is because they are a breed apart and make no sense".

Cora: What are you looking at, sir?
Hawkeye: I'm looking at you, miss.

Cora: Please take this as my final answer. It must be: no.

Duncan: You are defending him because you've become infatuated with him!
Cora: Duncan, you are a man with a few admirable qualities, but taken as a whole, I was wrong to have thought so highly of you.

Duncan: And who empowered these colonials to pass judgement on England's policies, and to come and go without so much as a "by your leave"?
Cora: They do not live their lives "by your leave"! They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, bearing their children along the way!

Cora: You've done everything you can do. Save yourself! If the worst happens, and only one of us survives, something of the other does, too.

Cora: Why were those people living in this defenseless place?
Hawkeye: After seven years indentured service in Virginia, they headed out here 'cause the frontier's the only land available to poor people. Out here, they're beholden to none. Not living by another's leave.

Hawkeye: My father's people say that at the birth of the sun and of his brother the moon, their mother died. So the sun gave to the earth her body, from which was to spring all life. And he drew forth from her breast the stars, and the stars he threw into the night sky to remind him of her soul. So there's the Cameron's monument. My folks' too, I guess.
Cora: You are right, Mr. Poe. We do not understand what is happening here. And it's not as I imagined it would be, thinking of it in Boston and in London...
Hawkeye: Sorry to disappoint you.
Cora: No, on the contrary. It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imagining could possibly have been.

Cora: [to Hawkeye] Say nothing to Alice.

Cora: A breed apart, we make no sense?
Hawkeye: In your particular case, Miss, I'd make an allowance.
Cora: Thank you so much.

Cora: Our father - Did you see my father?
Hawkeye: From a distance.

Hawkeye: Take me!
Duncan: [as he is being forced away] My compliments, sir! Take her and get out!
Cora: Duncan! What are they doing to Duncan?

Cora: He saved us. We're alive only because of him.
Colonel: The man encouraged the colonials to desert in this very room and in my presence! Sir! He is guilty of sedition. He must be tried and hanged like any other criminal, regardless of what he did for my children.
Cora: But he knew the consequences, and he stayed. Are those the actions of a criminal?

Cora: Justice? If that's justice than the sooner French guns blow the English out of America the better it will be for the people here.
Colonel: You do not know what you're saying!
Cora: Yes I do, I know exactly what I'm saying! And if it is sedition, than I am guilty of sedition too.