arisu, Schmendrick is one of my all-time favorites. I just blocked on his lines the last couple of times I posted to this thread. Of course, The Last Unicorn is full of good lines…so, naturally, here are a few more:
Butterfly: “It’s just you and me, moth…hand to hand to hand to hand to hand to hand…”
Mommy Fortuna: “The harpy’s as real as you are, and just as immortal. And she was just as easy to capture, if you want to know.”
Unicorn: “Do not boast, old woman. Your death sits in that cage…and she hears you.”
Schmendrick: “My dear, you deserve the services of a first-rate magician, but I’m afraid you’ll have to make do with a second-rate pickpocket.”
Schmendrick: “Oh my god, I’m engaged to a Douglas Fir!”
Molly: “Why must you always speak in riddles?”
Peg-legged, Eye-patched Cat: “Because I be what I be. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, mum, but I be a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer, arrr.”
Lir: “She just looked at me, and I was sorry I had killed the thing…sorry for killing a dragon.”
Wizard: “Schmendrick, my boy, so good to see you!”
Haggard: “He is here to take your place. He is now my royal magician.”
Wizard: “Schmendrick? The ‘Runeless Wonder’?”
Brigand, yanking Schmendrick out of a tree: “Mind your heads, lads. It’s rainin’ ninnies.”
Lir: “Do something! You have the power! I will kill you if you don’t do something!”
Schmendrick: “I cannot! Not all the magic in the world can help her now.”
Molly: “Then what is magic for? What is the use of wizardry, if it cannot even save a unicorn?”
Schmendrick: “That’s what heroes are for.”
and, of course,
Schmendrick: “She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits. Of all unicorns, she is the only one who knows what regret is - and love.”