Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Enemy (1994)

Sean Bean: Cpt., Maj. Richard Sharpe

Quotes 

• Isabella : Voltaire says, I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person. And that's how I think I am.

  Richard Sharpe : That's how I think you are, too.

• Richard Sharpe : What are you smiling at, Fredrickson?

  Frederickson : I'm not smiling, sir. A musket ball broke my jaw. I have false teeth. The sawbones stuck on the smile for free, sir. He also stuck on my hair. Hair belongs to a horse.

• Richard Sharpe : No wonder Harris reads Voltaire. Listen: Dieu ne pas pour le gros battalions, mais pour sequi teront le meilleur.

  Teresa : God is not on the side of the big battalions, but of the best shots.

  Richard Sharpe : Not bad for a Frog, eh?

• Nairn : You see that colonel, Sharpe? That colonel came here to make you a major. Would you believe that?

  Richard Sharpe : No, sir.

  Nairn : Right hand up to God, Sharpe.

  Richard Sharpe : That's your left hand, sir.

• Teresa : Harper, I have half a bottle of the best Irish whisky from the Irish priests at Salamanca.

  Richard Sharpe : You speak a word and you're dead, Harper.

  Patrick Harper : I'll be dead, but, sir, I'll be drunk.

• Ducos : Come, Colonel. We've wasted enough time in Adrados. It was a fool's errand in the first place.

  Richard Sharpe : Fool's errand? That man's wife is held hostage, sir! What is he to do?

  Ducos : Find another.

• Sir Augustus Farthingale : Are you the fellow that Wellington raised from the ranks, Sharpe?

  Richard Sharpe : Yes sir.

  Sir Augustus Farthingale : Yes, well I always thought it was a bad idea, and now I've got proof of it!

• Richard Sharpe : Maybe I'll get lucky, sir. Maybe one of those rockets will blow me to Kingdom Come.

  Nairn : That's the spirit, Sharpe!

• Richard Sharpe : [examining the Rocket Troop]  Very consistent, Lieutenant. Ten salvos and you've missed every time.

• 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?

• Rifleman Perkins : [Perkins is being disguised as a woman for the night attack]  Why can't Harris wear the dress, sir?

  Richard Sharpe : Harris doesn't have the figure for it!

  [the others jeer] 

  Rifleman Perkins : I must protest! It's not fair, it's not fair! It's always me!

• Richard Sharpe : No apologies about your men?

  Frederickson : Men are dirty, rifles are clean. Sir.

• Richard Sharpe : I'll be lucky to get away with a court martial!

• Colonel Dubreton : [Sharpe quotes Voltaire in French]  You told me you didn't speak French.

  Richard Sharpe : I lied. My wife taught me: she taught me many things. Above all how to say goodbye.

  [grabs Ducos] 

  Richard Sharpe : Someday, I'll say goodbye to you!

• Richard Sharpe : [looks at the mass of rebels]  You see what I see, Pat?

  Patrick Harper : You know, sometimes I wish I was blind. Looks like a bloody army to me.

  Richard Sharpe : Not just that. Look at their uniforms.

  Patrick Harper : Good God! There's French with them.

  Richard Sharpe : Spanish and Portuguese too. When word of this gets out, we can kiss goodbye to discipline back home!

• Richard Sharpe : [sees Kelly for the first time]  I know you!

  Kelly : [astonished]  Do you?

  Richard Sharpe : [thoughtful]  Battle of Talavera. I'll have your name in a tick...

  Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill : No names for the firing squad, Sharpy!

  [turns to Kelly] 

  Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill : Strip her!

  Kelly : [backs away]  Let the Frogs do it.

• Dubreton : [Nodding to a bound Hakeswill]  This is the man who killed your wife.

  Sharpe : A liar, a thief, a rapist, a murderer.That's not a man.Take it away.

• Richard Sharpe : Tell General Chaumier, we will fight him to the death.

  Ducos : [laughs]  Major Sharpe is not well. We outnumber you ten to one. There will be no terms if you do not surrender immediately.

  [For answer, Sharpe plucks off Ducos's glasses, drops them to the ground, and crushes them with his boot] 

  Richard Sharpe : To the death.

  Sir Augustus Farthingale : I'm in charge here, *Major* Sharpe! We shall discuss terms immediately.

  [Ducos smirks. Sharpe grabs Farthingdale by the arm and pulls him aside] 

  Richard Sharpe : Your wife was a whore, sir. I know, for I was once her lover. Let that get out, and you'll be the laughingstock of Lisbon, and then of London. Leave now, and on my honor, no word of it shall pass my lips.

  Sir Augustus Farthingale : [pale]  But... but I do love her, you know.

  [Sharpe sneers and returns Farthingdale's watch with a slap] 

  Richard Sharpe : You're a damned liar.

• Gilliand : Please, sir! I must protest, sir! My rockets are being robbed of their powder! I really must protest, sir!

  Richard Sharpe : It's either that or wear a dress, Rocket Man.

• Richard Sharpe : Well done, Mr. Gilliand! I'll be damned if we don't reach the moon some day with one of your blasted rockets!

• Richard Sharpe : [to the Sgt. of the new 60th Company]  A good soldier should have a reason before he suffers

  [allows] 

  Richard Sharpe : himself to smile!