Waterloo

Napoleon Bonaparte: Well they've done it! The whole of Europe has declared war against me! Not against France, but against me. Le Bedoyere: They dignify you sire by making you a Nation! Napoleon Bonaparte: [laughing] Dignify? Dignify? They deny me the decency of law! They make it legal that any clown can kill me. Michel Ney: Well we've fought with mud in our boots before! Napoleon Bonaparte: Yes well, I'll discuss peace over Wellington's dead body, that's my peace table!

Waterloo (1970 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

King Louis XVIII: I know you loved this man. Michel Ney: I did, once. But I promise you, that I will bring him back to Paris in an iron cage. [exits] King Louis XVIII: How they exaggerate, these soldiers, "In an iron cage"? Nobody asked for that.

Waterloo (1970 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Lord Uxbridge: [clears throat] Sir. Duke of Wellington: [removing his copy of The Times from over his face] Ah, Uxbridge. Lord Uxbridge: As I am second-in-command and in case anything should happen to you, what are your plans? Duke of Wellington: [brightly] To beat the French. [goes back to sleep, replacing the newspaper over his head]

Waterloo (1970 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Napoleon Bonaparte: Cross the river. Tomorrow we will dry our boots in Brussels. Michel Ney: God willing, sire. Napoleon Bonaparte: God? God has nothing to do with it.

Waterloo (1970 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Duchess of Richmond: [referring to the English troops] They're the salt of England, Arthur. Duke of Wellington: Scum. Nothing but beggars and scoundrels, all of them. Gin is the spirit of their patriotism. Duchess of Richmond: Yet you expect them to die for you? Duke of Wellington: Um-hum. Duchess of Richmond: Out of duty? Duke of Wellington: Um-hum. Duchess of Richmond: I doubt if even Bonaparte could draw men to him by duty. Duke of Wellington: Oh, Boney's not a gentleman. Duchess of Richmond: Arthur! What an Englishman you are. Duke of Wellington: On the field of battle his hat is worth fifty thousand men; but he is not a gentleman.

Waterloo (1970 film), CC BY-SA 4.0

Napoleon Bonaparte: When I am dead and gone what will the world say of me? Le Bedoyere: They'll say that you extended the limits of glory, sire. Napoleon Bonaparte: The limits of glory'; is that all I have to leave to my son, the 'limits of glory'?

Waterloo (1970 film), CC BY-SA 4.0