Quotes / Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me

Robin: So I guess we're officially engaged. Maybe we should tell our parents. I assume my dad already knows, you did call him and got his permission, right?
Barney: Yeah, Robin, I bought you, with an ox and some spices from the East. He's gonna put you in a cage and send you on horseback to my remote desert camp—
Robin: Okay, Barney.
Barney: Hold on, I'm not done. Where you'll be bathed in perfumes and oils and delivered to my tent. After you perform the traditional Dance of the Seven Veils, we'll adjourn to the tiger skin rug, where we'll—
Robin: Barney.
Barney: Robin, if we're gonna build a marriage together, we have got to stop interrupting each other all the time.
Robin: Fine, finish your story.
Barney: Thank you. Where we'll... do it.

— How I Met Your Mother, "Band of DJ?"

Anne: The baron had me knocked on the ground, a gun in his hand and me lying prone and groaning on my chest. Then he grabbed me by the hair — which fuck him, by the way; not cool — and yanked me up. He put the gun to the back of my head, and what does he do?
Kallen: Bathe her and bring her to me.
Anne: [exasperated] He says bathe her and bring her to me! He tossed me back to the ground, and at first all I could think was, "Are you fucking serious?"

— Kallen Stadtfeld, Countess of Britannia

As she sat gloomily on the disco's sidelines, she spotted a young 22-year-old man on the other side of the room... Fixing him with an imperious look, she turned to Paulette and said jokingly: "Have him stripped, washed, and brought to my tent."

— Cher: The Unauthorized Tell-All Biography, by J Randy Taraborrelli^note The young man in question was Rob Camilletti, who became Cher's boyfriend for two years.

"Fire and Blood" were the words of House Targaryen, but Dunk once heard Ser Arlan say that Aegon's should have been, "Wash Her and Bring Her to My Bed."

— Tales of Dunk and Egg, "The Sworn Sword"

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