Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Waterloo (1997)

Neil Dickson: Uxbridge

Quotes 

• Richard Sharpe : [has stumbled across Jane and Rossendale]  You, madam! You!

  Jane Sharpe : Don't hurt me, please!

  Richard Sharpe : And you!

  [grabs Rossendale] 

  Richard Sharpe : You dare to come! You dare to join! You dare to be in the same bottle-beggary army as me!

  Richard Sharpe : [chases Rossendale until Rossendale trips and falls]  Get up!

  [kicks Rossendale in the ribs] 

  Richard Sharpe : Get up and fight!

  [turns to the crowd] 

  Richard Sharpe : Somebody give him a sword!

  [turns back to Rossendale] 

  Richard Sharpe : You have a friend?

  Rossendale : [recognizing the duel challenge]  No, no, no, no, please!

  Richard Sharpe : Then give me the money, you can keep the whore for an arse-wipe, you yellow-livered...

  [feels the shame of being cuckolded] 

  Richard Sharpe : No... no, by God, I'll kill you anyway!

  [draws his sword and points it at Rossendale, who wets himself in front of the assembled guests] 

  Uxbridge : [intervenes]  Enough!

  [looks down at Rossendale in disgust] 

  Uxbridge : Get up.

  Richard Sharpe : [does not move his sword]  By God I'll fillet you also!

  Uxbridge : You will not!

  Harry Price : [mutters in Sharpe's ear]  Harry Paget, Richard... Earl Uxbridge as is, Lord Wellington's second-in-command as is... don't do it.

  Richard Sharpe : [sighs in defeat]  You tell him Harry.

  Rossendale : [looking up, embarrassed]  I fell... just fell.

  Richard Sharpe : Tell him he can have the whore

  [glares over at Jane, who stares back at him in loathing] 

  Richard Sharpe : but I want my money.

• [as Wellington sits down to dinner, the night before the battle] 

  Uxbridge : What do you do tomorrow?

  Wellington : What do you eat, Uxbridge?

  Uxbridge : [impatiently]  Much the same.

  Wellington : Does the army want for anything?

  Uxbridge : Damn it, what do you do tomorrow? What plans have you?

  Wellington : Plans?

  Uxbridge : I am second in command! I ought to know!

  Wellington : As soon as Napoleon Bonaparte tells me what *he's* going to do, I shall know what *I'm* going to do, and I shall tell you. But as Boney has not yet confided in me, I cannot confide in you. So, to your beef, Uxbridge.

  [Uxbridge exits in a huff] 

  Wellington : [under his breath]  Adulterous rogue.

• [the Prince of Orange rides to Wellington's side] 

  Prince William of Orange : Good day to you. We're fighting Boney, you know. Indeed we are. This day, at the cross roads of Quartre Bras... He's been seen.

  Wellington : [skeptically]  Has he been?

  Prince William of Orange : We're holding the woods, I do believe... yes.

  Uxbridge : [looks around]  Where are your men?

  Prince William of Orange : Fighting... fighting.

  [the Dutch troops stream past, clearly running away] 

  Uxbridge : I stand corrected, highness. I know very little about uniforms, other than me own, but I could have sworn these was yours as is running. Ain't they?

  Prince William of Orange : [draws his sword]  Some of them, Lord Uxbridge, some of them.

  [spurs after them] 

  Prince William of Orange : Come back here, you cowards!

  Wellington : I never mind men running as long as they come back.

• Wellington : [to the retreating Dutch troops]  My lads, you look blown from your run. Come, do take breath a moment. Then we will go back and try if we can do better. Take heart, soon have some guns up. Uxbridge!

  Uxbridge : Wellington?

  Wellington : When?

  Uxbridge : Oh, they do come, I assure you. What of the Prussians. Any word at all?

  Wellington : I told the Prussians we'll support them but only if not attacked here. They'll have to fight without us today.

• Wellington : If your corps is coming up, as you assure me, how close do you think they are? I want them to clear that road, I want it handsomely arranged with guns.

  Uxbridge : Very close.

  Wellington : How close?

  Uxbridge : Close. Coming up.

  [He turns around to look for them] 

• [as the French artillery commence fire, beginning the Battle of Waterloo] 

  Uxbridge : [lifting a glass of sherry]  Gentlemen, I give you today's fox.