Richard E. Grant: Sir Percy Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel

Quotes 

• Sir William Wetherby : Now, we have three league members in the square at this end and another ten by the entrance.

  Percy Blakeney : How do we tell each other apart?

  Sir William Wetherby : They look like us. Tramps and beggars.

  Percy Blakeney : Oh, that lowers the tone considerably!

• [Claudette exaggerates her rescue from France by the Pimpernel to the Prince of Wales and his friends in the garden] 

  Claudette de Bridoire : Our situation was desperate. We were outnumbered twenty to one!

  Percy Blakeney : [to Sir William]  Why not forty to one?

  Claudette de Bridoire : He whipped up the reins and we just flew!

  Percy Blakeney : [to Sir William]  Like the wind?

  Claudette de Bridoire : We flew like the wind!

  [Sir William and Percy laugh] 

• [Percy and William speak to Nana after they find her trying to save Claudette at the trial] 

  Sir William Wetherby : Forgive our appearance, Madamoiselle, this is not idle fancy, I assure you. We are...

  Sir Percy : [nods approval] 

  Sir William Wetherby : We are members of the League of the Pimpernel.

  Nana : [huffs in disbelief and turns to leave] 

  Sir Percy : Madam.

  [Reveals his ring with the Pimpernel flower seal] 

  Nana : Ah! You are a great man!

  Sir Percy : [Shakes head]  I have a great cause.