Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Enemy (1994)

Hugh Fraser: Lord Wellington

Quotes 

• Wellington : Discipline is only a rabble-rouser's shout from anarchy!

• Wellington : You think there may be something in those rockets, Sharpe?

  Richard Sharpe : Not as to accuracy, sir, but they'll play merry hell with the morale of poorly-led men, sir. The sound is shocking.

  Wellington : Scared you, did they?

  Richard Sharpe : I was terrified, sir.

  Sir Augustus Farthingale : Do, uh, do you really think this Sharpe's the right man to send, sir? Won't cut and run if someone lets off a gun, will he?

  Teresa : Who is this fool?

• Wellington : [the Prince Regent wants Sharpe appointed major]  It seems Sharpe has friends at court too Colonel, though in London, not in Lisbon.

• Wellington : Mark me close, Colonel. What do you think the supreme virtue, sir? To the Frenchman and his recent revolution, it is liberty. To the Whig, puffing in Parliament, it is license to do anything, provided it do not disturb his pleasure. But to the common soldier, it is anarchy, to do whatever he want and be damned to his fellow. But to me and Bonaparte, the supreme virtue is order. We are not Whigs. We know that a man may love his neighbor over Monday, and massacre him over Tuesday, unless society keeps him in order! These deserters, if not secured and shot, will destroy my army more surely than Bonaparte! And I'll thank you not to forget it.