Sharpe (TV Series)
Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
Brian Cox: Maj. Hogan
Quotes
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Major Hogan : Surprised to see me, Richard? Well you've done a grand job, a grand job. But now, at dawn tomorrow, with the help of my agent Commandante Teresa, who I believe you've met, I want you to seize the chapel at Torre Castro and hold it against all comers until Major Vivar has raised the gonfalon of Santiago over the chapel roof.
Richard Sharpe : Seize Torre Castro? With six men and a straggle of Spaniards? Can't be done! May I remind you of our main mission, sir? To find a missing gentleman?
Major Hogan : Not now, Richard. Our mission is Torre Castro. Spain is a sleeping tiger! If the people of Torre Castro rise up, even for an hour, the shock will shake the whole of Spain. Carry on, sir.
Richard Sharpe : Rise up? Do you really believe men will fight and die for a rag on a pole?
Major Hogan : You do, Richard, you do.
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Major Hogan : What do you do when you're short of cash, Sharpe?
Sharpe : Do without, sir.
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Wellesley : Pity about James Rothschild. I presume he's left the country?
Major Hogan : On the contrary, sir...
Richard Sharpe : He's here in this room, sir.
[to Hogan's surprise, Sharpe turns and plucks off "Mrs. Parker's" wig. James Rothschild laughs and pulls an envelope from under his skirt]
James Rothschild : Your banker's draft, Sir Arthur.
[to Sharpe]
James Rothschild : How did you know?
Richard Sharpe : You smelled of Turkish tobacco, the kind you can't get in Spain. You wouldn't eat your roast pork at the monastery. And I remember you speaking Yiddish in the coach.
James Rothschild : [laughs] Sir, you are an edel mensch - a gentleman.
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Major Hogan : [tosses a coin to Sharpe] What's that, Sharpe?
Richard Sharpe : A shilling, sir.
Major Hogan : The King's Shilling, Sharpe. Our last shilling. London's late, the Army's broke, and we owe the lads two months' wages... What do you do when you're out of cash, Sharpe?
Richard Sharpe : Do without, sir.
Major Hogan : You borrow, Richard! From a bank!
