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Tarzan quotes

  • Professor Porter: [after telling Jane to stay with Tarzan] What am I doing? Captain, ah. Tell them you never found us, eh? After all, people get lost in the jungle every day, right? Tootle-pip!

    [jumps out of the boat]

  • Jane Porter: [trying to coax a baby baboon to give her back a drawing] All right, enough of this. I want that paper on the count of three. One, two... Oh, look! Bananas!

    [as the baboon looks away, Jane snatches the drawing away]

    Jane Porter: Ha ha! I can't believe you fell for that one!

    [the baby baboon starts crying]

    Jane Porter: Now, now, don't give me those crocodile tears. What would your parents have to say?

    [suddenly she hears a growl; turns around to face a band of angry baboons]

    Jane Porter: See? I told you they'd be cross. Go easy on him, children will be children.