Duncan MacLeod quotes from Highlander: The Series

The truth is, you and I were too different.

Duncan

Maybe if I'd stayed.

You would've been unhappy. So I let you go. My wandering knight, charging off to right all the wrongs of the world.

Tessa Noël

You don't look like someone who would worry much about forgiveness.

Richie

Tess, you do know that they all carry big swords with them. Just a thought.

Amanda

You've always had a taste for beautiful and spirited women, Duncan.

Tessa

And modest. Don't forget modest.

Duncan MacLeod

Time to go. It's been thrilling.

Amanda

It's been 65 years. A girl might think you're trying to avoid her.

Duncan

Now how could you think that? Goodbye, Amanda.

Amanda

I gave up my life of crime, Duncan.

Duncan

That's what you said in Constantinople, 250 years ago.

Amanda

I succumbed to an impulse.

Duncan

I was nearly flayed alive when they came looking for you.

Amanda

But you got away. You always do.

Tessa

After all she's done to you, why do you care whether she's happy or not?

Duncan

I don't know, Tessa. She made me laugh when there weren't too many things to laugh about. Maybe that doesn't seem important, but those are the things I remember of her.

Tessa

She makes me feel like I have to compete with her. Maybe if I'd been a lady pirate or something....

Duncan

whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Richie, give us a moment, would you?

Richie

I was just leaving. [He leaves]

Duncan

Hey, listen to me young lady, she's no competition. Hmmm?

Why try to save her, MacLeod? She's betrayed you before.

Duncan

At least I'm smart enough to stay out of jail.

Duncan MacLeod

She (Tessa) was part of our lives, Richie. Never pretend she wasn't.

Richie

I don't! I keep waking up every morning...

Duncan

...expecting her to be there. Get used to it, it won't be the last time it happens to you.

Richie

When does this start getting easier?

Duncan

It doesn't.

Richie

I keep waiting to feel different. Like someone's going to tell me how to be, what to do.

Duncan

What were you expecting, a set of instructions?

Why don't you stay? It will be a beautiful war.

Duncan

War is never beautiful, Annie. Leave with me. This will never end.

It will when we win. Or when there's no one left alive to fight.

Richie

I could have killed her, Mac. I mean, that's what I'm supposed to do, right?

Duncan

Sometimes.

Richie

I couldn't do it. I thought I could, but I couldn't. Maybe I'm just not cut out for this.

Duncan

You're still who you are, Richie. You don't change when you become Immortal, you just live longer. Hopefully.

Richie

Oh, boy, I'd say I got a lot to learn.

Duncan

You still have time.

Duncan

Take good care of it. Live with it. Make it part of you. Might be the only friend you have.

Duncan MacLeod

You know, there's a problem with thinking the strongest can take what they want.

Yeah, what's that?

Duncan

There's always somebody stronger.

Amanda

You know, you won't let me change. You really expect me to steal, don't you?

Duncan MacLeod

I expect sharks to bite, too. Don't take it personally.

Duncan

Who were those guys?

Amanda

I swear on my mother's grave...

Duncan

You don't have a mother.

Amanda

Why won't you believe me? I've never seen those guys before in my life.

Duncan

Funny, they seemed to know you.

Duncan

Why can't I just smile? I'm happy, we're safe for now, I've just made love to the most devious, scheming, deceitful... beautiful woman in history.

Amanda

Do you really think I'm one of the most beautiful women in history?

Amanda

I told you, I'm not a thief any more.

Duncan

So you turned to counterfeiting instead?

Amanda

Well, I ran out of money, what else am I supposed to do?

Duncan

Oh, a job is out of the question.

Amanda

Would you get serious, MacLeod.