Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Enemy (1994)

Daragh O'Malley: Sgt. Patrick Harper

Quotes 

• 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.

• Patrick Harper : [the Chosen Men are trying to scare the newly arrived 60th Rifles]  May God help them, Mr. Cooper.

  Rifleman Cooper : These poor souls, don't know Mr. Sharpe, do they, Sgt. Harper?

  Patrick Harper : They don't Mr. Cooper

  Rifleman Hagman : They don't know Mr. Sharpe saved Wellington's life, do they, Sgt. Harper?

  Patrick Harper : They don't Mr. Hagman.

  Harris : They don't know Mr. Sharpe shot three dragoons out of the saddle in thirty seconds do they, Sgt. Harper?

  Patrick Harper : They certainly don't, Mr. Harris.

  Rifleman Hagman : I bet they don't know Mr. Sharpe shot a man just for having rust on his trigger!

  Rifleman Cooper : They don't, Mr. Hagman.

  Rifleman Perkins : I bet they don't know Mr. Sharpe shot an officer, just for having dust on his buttons!

  [the others pause and stare at Perkins] 

  Patrick Harper : [resumes]  Well what was it Mr. Sharpe says makes a good soldier, Mr. Cooper?

  Rifleman Cooper : Remind me again, Sarge.

  Patrick Harper : What Major Sharpe says makes a good soldier is the ability to be able to fire three rounds a minute, in any weather.

  Rifleman Cooper : Oh I should remember that.

  Patrick Harper : Shush, boys. Here he comes: the Devil himself!

  [Sharpe arrives] 

• 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!