- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: [First lines] You, soldier. Dance with me.
- Richard Sharpe: I do not dance.
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: Do not, sir? Or cannot?
- Richard Sharpe: Will not.
- Richard Sharpe: Will they fight?
- Chitu: They are *farmers*.
- Richard Sharpe: So were I once. - There comes a time a man has to decide whether he *stands* to protect what he holds dear or bows himself under another's will.
- Maharani Padmini: That's enough, Sergeant, you must come back to your bed now.
- Richard Sharpe: When a Princess says she wants you back in bed, you'd best step to, Sergeant!
- Patrick Harper: [watches Sharpe get slapped by a noblewoman] Still have your way with the ladies, then?
- Major Tredinnick: Colonel! What's this man's father to you?
- Richard Sharpe: He killed my wife! He killed her, and left our daughter motherless!
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: You are rude and ignorant and an uncouth brute!
- Richard Sharpe: And you, madam, are a spoiled, willful, petulant, and selfish young fool!
- Richard Sharpe: [Wants to kill Hakeswill's son] Stand aside Pat.
- Patrick Harper: Can't let you do it.
- Richard Sharpe: Stand aside, damn you!
- Patrick Harper: You'll have to put me down first.
- Richard Sharpe: I was raised up from the ranks, Wormwood. You know what that means?
- Wormwood: It means you done a feat, sir. Usually.
- Richard Sharpe: It also means I know every dirty soldier's trick in the book.
- Patrick Harper: Dragomirov's troops are well seasoned. And what's more, they outnumber us 6 to 1.
- Richard Sharpe: Good rifleman's odds.
- Patrick Harper: Aye. Except we got no bloody riflemen!
- Sir Henry Simmerson: [to Sharpe, reluctantly] It would appear I owe you my life.
- Richard Sharpe: We all make mistakes, Sir Henry!
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: You mean to leave me here? In the company of common soldiers!
- Richard Sharpe: Good practice, I'd have thought. You're set to marry one aren't you?
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: Major Joubert is a gentleman.
- Richard Sharpe: Aye, well God help him.
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: At least I won't be kept awake by your snoring.
- Richard Sharpe: I don't snore.
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: Like a cart horse!
- Richard Sharpe: Where the hell do you think you're about?
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: I wanted to ride.
- Richard Sharpe: I can see that!
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: Have you killed many men? - Did they deserve it?
- Richard Sharpe: Some. But most were just poor soldiers who happened to wear a different uniform from me.
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: But in a just cause?
- Richard Sharpe: I'm not sure I ever heard of one! - War is the business of kings, Miss. Kings and governments. However they dress it, in the end, the whys and the wherefores come down to one thing: Loot. Booty. Treasure. - Us soldiers, we just do the dying for them!
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: You are rude, sir! You are a rude and ignorant and uncouth brute!
- Richard Sharpe: And you, madam, are a spoiled, willful, petulant and selfish young fool! - Now get on your mount and follow me back! Or will you have me *carry* you?
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: You would not dare...
- [sees the look on Sharpe's face]
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: - I was done with my ride anyway!
- Major Joubert: [calling for his soldiers, in French] Soldats!
- Richard Sharpe: Your men are dead, Joubert. It's just you and me now.
- Major Joubert: [raising his pistol] No. Only me...!
- Major Tredinnick: You may kill me, but if, by His Good Grace, Colonel Sharpe still lives, upon his cold steel shall you answer for your offenses... Betrayal is your creed, not mine!
- Richard Sharpe: It was either him or me, and I'm glad it weren't me. - If it's any comfort, he got no more or less than his deserving!
- Richard Sharpe: Stay here and keep outside.
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: I will do no such thing!
- Richard Sharpe: For once in your life, do as you're told!
- [after she disobeyed him and followed him, so he had to save her from attackers]
- Richard Sharpe: I told you to *stay put*!
- Dragomirov: [in camp, alarmed at the sound] Sh! Horses!
- Patrick Harper: [gets up, takes his rifle and calls the men to arms] Company! Stand to!
- [the soldiers form line and wait, ready to fire their guns]
- Richard Sharpe: [appears on horseback, together with the rescued Marie Angelique, facing all the rifles aimed at them] I weren't expecting *flags*, but I thought to find a warmer welcome than *this*!
- Richard Sharpe: Like as not, Dragomirov will be upon us tomorrow. It's here or nowhere.
- Patrick Harper: Ah, it's as fine a place as any. - Though I had hoped to see Ramona again.
- Richard Sharpe: And shall, Pat. And *shall*!
- Richard Sharpe: [commenting on people changing] Nothing wrong with *me*!
- Patrick Harper: Amen to that!
- Patrick Harper: We bound for home?
- Richard Sharpe: Aye. Maybe this time we'll get there!
- [They ride off together]
- Wormwood: [suggesting to kill Simmerson in the hospital] It might be... 'kindness' to end his suffering, sir! - I served once in a company that was wiped out by his orders. He's a stupid, malicious bastard!
- Richard Sharpe: Aye! But he's my stupid, malicious bastard. And I say he lives.
- Chitu: [as he takes Sharpe and Harper to a dusty old cannon left forgotten in a barn, half covered by a haystack] Whether the powder is still good...
- [He shrugs]
- Patrick Harper: Bugger the powder- this thing's only got one wheel!
- Richard Sharpe: How a man counts upon the eye, Mr. Beauclaire, means less than nothing. It's what's in his heart that counts!
- Patrick Harper: [about Sharpe] When your back's against the wall, he's the one man you want beside you.
- Richard Sharpe: He won you at cards?
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: An unusual way to find a husband, I grant, but... a shooish reputation does not encourage eligible suitors to a woman's door!
- Richard Sharpe: 'Headstrong', maybe. But 'shooish', no. I would not call you *that*.
- Marie-Angelique Bonnet: You called me *worse*!
- Patrick Harper: [in reference to Simmerson and others] By Jesus, this is some army we've put together - Shuckers and Bedlomites, the halt and the mad!
- [Sharpe grins]
- Richard Sharpe: I am no longer in the service of His Majesty. My business in India concluded, I am for Calcutta to England.
- Viscount Sedgefield: I cannot persuade you? Well perhaps then, you might at least be prevailed upon to perform one last duty? In which case I assure you there is no peril to yourself.
- Richard Sharpe: Aye. If I can.