Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.

Captain Haddock: I thought you were an optimist.
Tintin: You were wrong, weren't you? I'm a realist.
Captain Haddock: Ah, it's just another name for a quitter.
Tintin: You can call me what you like. Don't you get it? We failed.
Captain Haddock: Failed. There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse. Don't you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Don't you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There's something you need to know about failure, Tintin. You can never let it defeat you.
Captain Haddock: My memory isn't the way it used to be.
Tintin: How was it?
Captain Haddock: I've forgotten.
Tintin: What have you done?
Captain Haddock: I lit a wee fire...
Tintin: *In a boat?*
[explosion]
Tintin: Well, this is a fine mess.
Tintin: We've got bad news. We've only got one bullet.
Captain Haddock: What's the good news?
Tintin: We've got ONE bullet.
Captain Haddock: What is this peculiar beverage? It had no bouquet, it's completely transparent.
Tintin: It's water.
Captain Haddock: So you thought you'd sneak in an' catch me with me trousers down, eh?
Tintin: I'd rather you keep your trousers on if it's all the same to you!
Nestor: Good evening, sir. I trust you had a pleasant voyage.
Ivanovich Sakharine: Do I pay you to talk?
Nestor: You don't pay me at all.
[from trailer]
[in a plane]
Captain Haddock: You do know what you're doing, right?
Tintin: Relax. I interviewed a pilot once!
Tintin: How's your thirst for adventure, Captain?
Captain Haddock: Unquenchable, Tintin.
Thomson: [looks at the newspaper] Great Scotland Yard! That's extraordinary!
Tintin: What is?
Thomson: Worthington's having a half-price sale on bowler hats!
Inspector Thompson: [snatches the newspaper] Really, Thomson! This is hardly the time...
[looks at the newspaper]
Inspector Thompson: Great Scotland Yard!
Thomson, Tintin: What is it?
Inspector Thompson: Canes are half-price too!
Captain Haddock: Nobody takes my ship!
Tintin: They've already taken it.
Captain Haddock: But nobody takes my ship twice!
[from trailer]
[a shipwrecked Haddock spots a plane]
Captain Haddock: We're saved! A savior from above!
[the plane opens fire]
Silk: I'm not a bad person. I'm a kleptomaniac.
Thomson: A what?
Inspector Thompson: It's fear of open spaces.
Thomson: Poor man. No wonder he keeps his wallets in the living room.
Captain Haddock: [Haddock is chasing Sakharine's Bird] 10,000 Thundering Typhoons! Come here you pilfering parakeet!
Captain Haddock: Blistering treasure! It's Red Rackham's barnacles!
[from trailer]
Tintin: Are you going to take charge of this evidence?
Inspector Thompson: Never fear, Tintin! The evidence is safe with us!
[falls down stairs]
Thomson: Thompson? Where are you?
Inspector Thompson: Well, I'm already downstairs! You'd better keep up!
Ivanovich Sakharine: You may kill the boy, but NOT Haddock!
Allan: Oh, come on, sir, he's a rum soak! We should have killed him long ago...
Ivanovich Sakharine: [draws his blade] Do you think it was an accident I took Haddock's ship, Haddock's crew, Haddock's treacherous first mate? Nothing I do is an accident!
Tintin: To think, all it took was one day in the Sahara! Congratulations, Captain, you're sober!
Tintin: Captain, can you get us to Bagghar?
Captain Haddock: What sort of a stupid question is that?
[gets up]
Captain Haddock: Give me those oars! I'll show you some real seamanship, laddie! I'll not be doubted by some pipsqueak tuft of ginger and his irritating dog. I am master and commander of the seas!
Inspector Thompson: You are under arrest!
Thomson: To be precise: you are under arrest!
[Thomson and Thompson plan a trap for the wallet thief]
Inspector Thompson: It's childishly simple!
Thomson: To be precise: it's simply childish!
Allan: Mr Tintin?
Tintin: Yes, that's me.
Allan: There's a crate here for you, sir.
Tintin: But I didn't order anything.
Allan: [knocks out Tintin] That's 'cause *you're* in it!
[stuffs him into the crate]
Captain Haddock: Billions of blistering barnacles!
Captain Haddock: [seeing Snowy for the first time] A giant rat of Sumatra!
Captain Haddock: Ten thousand thundering typhoons!
[last lines]
Tintin: There's a clue to another treasure. How's your thirst for adventure, Captain?
Captain Haddock: Unquenchable, Tintin.
[Snowy winks at us]
Tintin: Great snakes!
Ivanovich Sakharine: The legend says only a Haddock is able to find the treasure... but it took a Rackham to get the job done!
Tintin: Bad news, Captain. We've only got one bullet.
Captain Haddock: What's the good news?
Tintin: We've got one bullet.
[from trailer]
Captain Haddock: Nobody takes MY ship!
Bianca Castafiore: I am most grateful to Professor Sweetie Pie, for bringing me here to Bagghar!
[Sakharine winces]
Captain Haddock: Red Rackham!
Ivanovich Sakharine: That's right! An ancestor of mine, just as Sir Francis was yours!
Captain Haddock: Unfinished business...
Ivanovich Sakharine: Oh, it's good you remember, Haddock - killing you drunk wouldn't have been as much fun!
[Haddock hurls bottles at Sakharine]
Ivanovich Sakharine: Go ahead, have a drink. It's all you've got left!
[from trailer]
Tintin: We can't go back, not now!... Not now.
[from trailer]
Captain Haddock: I SWEAR to find that treasure before 'im!
Captain Haddock: It was Allan, he nobbled me... and there was a bottle...
Tintin: There always is!
Captain Haddock: No, it's not like that...
Tintin: I can smell it on you!
[from trailer]
Tintin: If Sakharine gets to that ship before us, it's over!
[from trailer]
Ivanovich Sakharine: Find them, find them BOTH!
Red Rackham: Kill his men!
Sir Francis Haddock: Nooooo!
Captain Haddock: Sir Francis Haddock was the greatest captain of the seven seas! Why do you think I drink? It's because I know I'll never be like him!
[from trailer]
Tintin: Snowy, look at this...
[points to a model ship]
[from trailer]
Tintin: [inspecting the model Unicorn] What secrets do you hold...?
[a roll of parchment slips out]