Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Gold (1995)

Sean Bean: Maj. Richard Sharpe

Quotes 

• Patrick Harper : I had an uncle who thought the Faeries were after him.

  Richard Sharpe : What happened to him?

  Patrick Harper : Well, sir, they got him.

• Patrick Harper : Well would you look at this.

  [indicates the redcoats coming down the hill] 

  Richard Sharpe : Our absent friends.

• Richard Sharpe : [Skillicorn has been caught by Ayres with a chicken]  Look nobody lives here it's deserted!

  Lt. Ayres : He's a looter.

  [turns to his flunkies] 

  Lt. Ayres : Hang him!

• Lt. Ayres : [drunkenly]  She's a lady, which is why she's got a lady's gun. Which is a rifle!

  [sneers] 

  Lt. Ayres : What about that, Major Rifleman Sharpe?

  Richard Sharpe : You're drunk, Mr. Ayres.

  Lt. Ayres : So should you be by now. And I stick by muskets!

  Provost Marshal : [disapproving]  Ayres!

  Ellie Nugent : Back in Ireland, I go shooting quite a lot.

  Lt. Ayres : With a lady's gun!

• Richard Sharpe : Those bloody ignorant female fools!

• Richard Sharpe : Monsieur, you will now redeem yourself. 'Pour la gloire...!' You will lead two companies of French infantry to the attack!

  Barbier : Two? - Where are they?

  [Sharpe gestures at the all in all 6 men with them] 

  Barbier : - You're not serious, Monsieur!

• Munro : [to Sharpe]  You're in black trouble, Laddie!

  Richard Sharpe : How bad is it?

  Munro : Well, I could use words like 'dire' and 'dreadful', but I would not wish to cheer you up!

• Major Mungo Munro : [about El Casco's guerrillas]  The story goes, there was a great shipwreck hereabouts, long long ago. A galleon, bearing treasure from Mexico to the King of Spain. Not only gold, but idols for him to see, even people from that terrible land.

  Richard Sharpe : Treasure?

  Major Mungo Munro : Ah that catches your ear, laddie? Well if it's still there, no one's found it!

  Bess Nugent : William heard of it too.

  Ellie Nugent : You said a 'terrible land'?

  Major Mungo Munro : The Aztecs of Mexico were a high civilization, and entirely evil!

  Ellie Nugent : How could that be?

  Lt. Ayres : Their religion was based on human sacrifice. They cut the living hearts out of their prisoners...

  Major Mungo Munro : That'll do for now, man.

  Lt. Ayres : ...thousands at a time. Or they skinned them.

  Major Mungo Munro : I said that'll do!

  Lt. Ayres : They even had a god of flaying...the flayed god...

  Richard Sharpe : Stop gloating, Ayres!

  Lt. Ayres : I came across it in my studies. Rather amusing.

  Ellie Nugent : Major Munroe, you didn't mean there could be any of that here?

  Major Mungo Munro : No. Well, maybe a taint turned into foolish nonsense, these folk are peasants.

  Ellie Nugent : And that's all?