"Parade's End" Episode #1.3 (TV Episode 2012) - Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens

Sylvia Tietjens : Oh, Christopher! If you had once in our lives said to me "You whore!" "You bitch!" or about the child or Perowne, you might have done something to bring us together. And I dare say, if you're shot... Christ... between the saddle and the ground, you'll say you never did a dishonourable action. In the name of the Almighty, how can any woman live beside you?

Christopher Tietjens : But I never disapproved of your actions.

Sylvia Tietjens : I'm done for you. I'm not going to listen to you.

Christopher Tietjens : You were let down at the beginning by a brute. So you have the right to let down a man. It's woman against man, now and ever has been.
Christopher Tietjens : You can't possibly conceive the quantity of explosives the armies throw at each other for each man killed. Shells make a continuous noise, sometimes like an enormous machine breaking apart. Other times, they come whistling towards you in a thoughtful sort of way, then go crumbling, screw cap flies off, hurtling through the air, screaming. This one kind of shell, which comes with a crescendo, like an express train, only faster. Another kind which makes a noise like, tearing calico louder and louder. The largest kind are the ones which burst in the sky and make a double crack, like a wet canvas being shaken out by a giant. Such immense explosions to kill such small, weak animals.

Benedict Cumberbatch: Christopher Tietjens