Memorable quotes for
Sharpe's Waterloo (1997) (TV)

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Richard Sharpe: [Rallying the South Essex] I'm your colours. I Am.

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Wellington: The Prince of Orange. They wanted to give him command over me. Better council prevailed.

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Prince William of Orange: It's the French. Oh my god. Now they have guns.
Wellington: Oh, they've always had guns, your royal highness. What they haven't always had is you as a target.

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Prince William of Orange: Good day to you. We're fighting Boney you know. Indeed we are. This day, at the cross roads of Quartre Bras... He's been seen.
Wellington: Has he been?
[disbelievingly]
Prince William of Orange: We're holding the woods I do believe... yes.
Uxbridge: Where are your men?
Prince William of Orange: Fighting... Fighting.
Uxbridge: I stand corrected, highness. I know very little about uniforms, other than me own, but I could have sworn these was yours as is running. Ain't they?
Prince William of Orange: Some of them, Lord Uxbridge, some of them. Come back here ya cowards.
[as he chases after them]
Wellington: [to Uxbridge] I never mind men running as long as they come back.
Wellington: [to the retreating troups] My lads, you look blown from your run. Come, do take breath a moment. Then we will go back and try if we can do better. Take heart, soon have some guns up.
Wellington: Uxbridge.
Uxbridge: Wellington?
Wellington: When?
Uxbridge: Oh, they do come I assure you. What of the Prussians. Any word at all?
Wellington: I tell the Prussians we'll support them but only if not attacked here. They'll have to fight without us today.
Wellington: [distant cannon sounds] Listen. There. The Prussians have started before us.
Prince William of Orange: [the Prince has returned to the group and Sharpe has joined them] Sharpe, you hear those guns, Sharpe? Far off. That's the Prussians pasting up the French. Do you hear it. Listen.
Prince William of Orange: [an explosion near the Prince] It's the French. My God, now they have guns.
Wellington: Oh, they've always had guns your royal highness. What they haven't always had is you as a target.
Richard Sharpe: [chuckles]
Wellington: [to Uxbridge] If your corp is coming up as you assure me; how close do you think they are. I want them clear that road, I want it hansom arranged with guns.
Uxbridge: Very close.
Wellington: How close?
Uxbridge: Close. Coming up.
[as he turns about to look for them]

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Doggett: [to the Prince of Orange] You, sir, are a silk stocking full of shit.

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Wellington: Your Regiment, Sharpe!
Richard Sharpe: Prince of... South Essex! ADVANCE!
[regiment walks off towards the French]
Richard Sharpe: South Essex Charge!

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Rebeque: [Rebeque is talking to Sharpe about the Prince of Orange and his whores, when there is large bang] That's his boots!

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Doggett: [on the Prince of Orange] He did it again. How many more men will he kill? That's my commission gone to the blazes I dare say, but it had to be said.
Richard Sharpe: [choking with grief] Daniel Hagman... Harris... He won't kill anymore!
Patrick Harper: [to Doggett] Oh now you have caused trouble!
[rides after Sharpe]

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Doggett: [to the Prince of Orange] You did it again! Colonel Sharpe said you would do it again, and you did! All those men dead because you wanted to get out? You coward!
Rebeque: Doggett! His Royal Highness cannot be called a coward.
Doggett: No, dammnit. No, not cowardice, not that. Just so he can dance and prance, and make high cockalorum, while men die? Horribly? It is too much, I declare, too much! I shall say it!
Doggett: [after a second] You sir, are a silk stocking full of shit!

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