Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (2013 Video Game)
Matt Ryan: Edward Kenway
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Quotes
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Ah Tabai : And what do you think of our Creed?
Edward Kenway : It's hard to say. For if Nothing is true, then why believe anything? And if everything is permitted... why not chase every desire?
Ah Tabai : Why indeed?
Edward Kenway : It might be that this idea is only the beginning of Wisdom, and not its final form.
Ah Tabai : That's quite a step up from the Edward I met here many years ago.
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Edward Kenway : For years I've been rushing around, taking whatever I fancied, not giving a tinker's curse for those I hurt. Yet here I am... with riches and reputation, feeling no wiser than when I left home. Yet when I turn around, and look at the course I've run... there's not a man or woman that I love left standing beside me.
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Edward Kenway : What the hell happened here?
Adéwalé : You happened here, Edward. The damage you caused six years ago has not been undone.
Edward Kenway : I'm not an easy man to call a friend, am I?
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Mary Read : We're Assassins and we follow a creed, aye. But it does not command us to act or submit - only to be wise.
Edward Kenway : Oh, do tell. I'd love to hear it.
Mary Read : Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. This is the world's only certainty.
Edward Kenway : Everything is permitted? I like the sound of that. Thinking what I like and acting how I please.
Mary Read : You parrot the words, but you do not understand them.
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Edward Kenway : Is this my reward for believing the best about men? For thinking that a bilge rat like you could muster up some fucking sense, once in a while? Maybe Hornigold was right. Maybe the world does need men of ambition to stop the likes of you from mucking it all up.
Charles Vane : Or maybe you just don't have the stones to live with no regrets.
Edward Kenway : Don't save me a spot in hell, shanker. I ain't coming soon.
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Bartholomew Roberts : Ah... all Men desire to live by a Code, or a Creed, yes? Yet when pressed, most defer to their instincts rather than the Laws that bind them. But what is the appeal of a creed if it does not yoke all men to like behaviour?
Edward Kenway : Might make a man feel like... he belongs to something. What's your answer?
Bartholomew Roberts : Ah... that all Men are sheep. And that an old wolf like me deserves every ounce of blood he draws.
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Edward Kenway : I'm not of the same mind, mate. But I won't begrudge you the state of yours.
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Edward Kenway : Jesus! You've lost your head, man!
Charles Vane : It's a fair exchange for finding these flintlocks and grenadoes!
Edward Kenway : Listen Vane! We could hunt with those guns!
Charles Vane : And I mean to! You and your bloody fairy stories got us into this mess, Kenway. And I'll be damned if I let you drag me into another!
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[after the successful raid on Charles Towne]
Edward Kenway : We should quit these waters, Thatch. The governor is bound to muster more soldiers.
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Nah, you go on ahead. I... I got some... business in the north.
Edward Kenway : You're done, aren't you? Giving up on us? On Nassau?
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Look, lad. I'm late into my fourth decade on this earth. And if I don't find some means to make the fifth a quiet and cozy voyage, I'd rather sink to the Devil's doorstep than call myself cap'n another year.
[Edward doesn't answer]
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Ah, we'll meet again, lad. In this world... or the one below.
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Charles Vane : I'll gut you, Jack Rackham! I'll open you up, I'll tear out your organs, and string a bloody lute with 'em!
Edward Kenway : Stop your goddamn howling, Vane! There's no bloody use!
Charles Vane : Well, well! The fearsome Edward Kenway speaks, eh? Pray tell us, captain, how to quit this predicament! And tell us what genius you have for sailing a boat with no sails and no rudder!
Edward Kenway : SHUT YOUR GOB!
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[Edward has just come back up from diving a shipwreck while looking for medicine]
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Ahoy! Any luck?
Edward Kenway : I found one crate hidden beneath a school of sharks. Sadly, the elixir inside is...
[he produces a bottle and pours out a foul green liquid]
Edward Kenway : ... quite spoilt.
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Plague and perish! Will we steal medicines now?
Edward Kenway : Remember the pardon, Thatch. We're to be subtle.
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Says Hornigold, a pirate now too proud to call himself one!
Edward Kenway : Ah, he prefers caution to cannons.
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Caution's nothin' without charisma! For if a man plays the fool, then it's only fools he'll persuade. But appear to be the Devil... and all men will submit.
Edward Kenway : And would you be the Devil?
[Thatch dons a hat with smoldering matches tucked into it and smiles wolfishly]
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : For an audience, aye. It's all a big show.
[he turns to Bonnet, towering over him, his voice a fierce growl and his appearance terrifying]
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : Give your quarry something to fear... some hellish thing from a fever dream... and men will drop to their knees, pleadin' for their Lord before aught else!
Stede Bonnet : [cowering in terror] Oh, God...
Edward Kenway : [amused] Looks fine.
Edward 'Blackbeard' Thatch : [in a normal voice] 'Course it does. If you can find a quiet way to acquire medicines, tell me soon. Otherwise, I'll handle it meself.
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Tavern Patron #1 : Fancy meetin' a Welshman deep in dago country. I'm English meself. Bidin' my time 'til the next war calls me to service.
Edward Kenway : Lucky King George, havin' a pisspot like you flyin' his flag.
Tavern Patron #1 : Oi! Skulk! I seen your face before! You's mates with them pirates down in Nassau!
Edward Kenway : Shut your fucking gob or I'll fill it with shot, you hear me?
Tavern Patron #1 : [laughing] Edward, is it?
[he pulls Edward's hood off, but Edward headbutts him and body-slams him through a table]
Tavern Patron #2 : You bastard!
Edward Kenway : Hey, I warned him!
[a huge fight breaks out]
