Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Sword (1995)

Sean Bean: Maj. Richard Sharpe

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Quotes 

• Lord Jack Spears : I suppose they'll shoot me?

  Richard Sharpe : I suppose so.

  Lord Jack Spears : I didn't do it for the money Richard. Though it would have been damned useful.

  Richard Sharpe : So why did you do it Jack?

  Lord Jack Spears : Courage. It's like the King's Shilling, Richard. Some soldiers save it, some soldiers spend it all in one day. I told you my life was saved by a French doctor. Well the doctor was Colonel Leroux, and he saved my life simply by virtue of the fact that he stopped torturing me before I died. And I just couldn't stand it anymore. See I had spent the whole coin of courage. And then he made me sign some papers, betraying my honour, and the honour of a lady I once loved. And I could not let him use that, so I became his spy, ridiculous as this sounds to you Richard.

• Richard Sharpe : [Leroux claims he can't speak English]  See if you understand this, on the count of three I'm gonna kick you in the crotch!

• Lord Jack Spears : [charges for the French]  Up and at 'em, boys, up and at 'em!

  Patrick Harper : Silly bugger!

  Richard Sharpe : Aye, brave silly bugger though. Let's give him a hand before he gets killed.

• [Munro is playing bagpipes from inside his tent. Sharpe talks to a Highland soldier guarding the entrance] 

  Richard Sharpe : How can you stand it?

  [the soldier shakes his head, not understanding] 

  Richard Sharpe : [yelling]  How can you stand it?

  [the soldier grins and takes a ball of cotton wool out of his ear] 

• Richard Sharpe : Have a word with you, Harper! What's this between you and Ramona?

  Patrick Harper : She's not talking to me.

  Richard Sharpe : Well what have you done to her?

  Patrick Harper : Nothing!

  Richard Sharpe : Well whatever it is you're not doing. go and do it!

  Patrick Harper : [stands up]  That's not your business!

  Richard Sharpe : Whatever business it is, get it sorted out

  [puts his laundry in Harper's hands] 

  Richard Sharpe : .

  Patrick Harper : If that means I'm going to wash and clean your tunics, well, I'm not!

  [puts the laundry in Sharpe's hands] 

  Richard Sharpe : Well I'm not!

  [puts his laundry back into Harper's hands] 

  Patrick Harper : Well I'm not!

  [throws the clothes on the ground] 

• Richard Sharpe : [sees that Lass is only wearing her shift]  Good God, Lass, go put some clothes on!

  Patrick Harper : She hasn't got any clothes.

  Richard Sharpe : Well tell Ramona to go get her some, damn you!

  Patrick Harper : I asked her! She told me to shag off.

• Richard Sharpe : Take my advice, Harris. When you get home, write a bloody good book with loads of shooting in it. You'll die a rich man.

• Rifleman Hagman : Permission to speak sir?

  Rifleman Hagman : [hands Sharpe a bundle from his pocket]  Best brown paper and paraffin oil, it's for your wound.

  Richard Sharpe : Thank you Hagman.

• Major Mungo Munro : [he has just finished a bagpipe solo]  Which would you prefer me to do, Sharpe? Play Beallagh na Bruga, that's the Munro march... or send you on a dangerous mission?

  Richard Sharpe : Dangerous mission, sir.

  Major Mungo Munro : Who's winning the war, Sharpe?

  Richard Sharpe : Wellington, sir.

  Major Mungo Munro : Why's he winning it, Sharpe?

  Richard Sharpe : Steady troops, sir.

  Major Mungo Munro : Superior intelligence, Sharpe. Supplied by whom, laddie?

  Richard Sharpe : Men like you, sir.

  Major Mungo Munro : [disgusted:]  Och, don't *lick* me, laddie!

• Colonel Berkeley : [Leroux breaks for it]  He breaks his parole, and kills an eighteen year old boy!

  Richard Sharpe : Don't worry sir, we'll go in and get him tomorrow.

  Colonel Berkeley : Tomorrow! I'm going in tonight, Sharpe! I want to see that bastard dead by dawn.

• Munro : What you don't know don't hurt you, Sharpe.

  Sharpe : Beg pardon, sir, but in my experience what you don't know usually gets you killed.

• Richard Sharpe : I've seen many a good soldier run away, and live to fight another die.

  Father Curtis : So have I!

• Major Mungo Munro : [playing the bagpipes as Sharpe enters, then stops and turns around to Sharpe]  Never had a lesson in my life! Can you believe that, Laddie?

  [Sharpe's and Spears' expressions clearly show they CAN believe it, but neither of them says so. Munro gestures for Sharpe to take a seat] 

  Major Mungo Munro : Sit down, Laddie! - Which would you prefer me to do, Sharpe? Play 'Beallagh Na Bruga' - that's the Munro March - or send you an a dangerous mission?

  Richard Sharpe : Ah... dangerous mission, sir!

• Richard Sharpe : [to the girl]  I'll be back soon, Lass. And when I come back, I want you in my *bed*.

  [Sees Harris looking up from the campfire] 

  Richard Sharpe : - I mean, I'll sleep *out here*!