Private Henry Hook: [as Sergeant Maxfield raves deliriously in the hospital] Stuff me with green apples! If a dog was as sick as him,they'd shoot it!
Pvt. William Jones: What's he up to, 593? Pte. Robert Jones: Oh, I think he wants to be hero, 716. Cpl. Frederic Schiess, NNC: Haven't you rednecks got names instead of numbers? Pte. Robert Jones: 'Tis a Welsh regiment, man! Though there are some for...
Lieutenant John Chard: [shouting] Front rank fire! Rear rank fire, reload! Lieutenant John Chard: [repeats a few times as one line of soldiers fires and the other kneels and reloads their rifles]
Lieutenant John Chard: Good. I can find work for baritones as well as tenors.
Color Sgt. Bourne: [doing roll call] Hughes! Hughes: Excused duty! [the soldiers begin to laugh] Color Sgt. Bourne: No comedians, please. Hughes. Hughes: Yes, Colour Sergeant.
[repeated line] Colour Sergeant Bourne: All right, nobody told you to stop working.
Bromhead: At one hundred yards! Volley fire, present! Aim! Fire!
Bromhead: Well done, Adendorff, we'll make an Englishman of you yet! Adendorff: No, thanks. I'm a Boer. The Zulus are the enemies of my blood. What are you doing here? Bromhead: You don't object to our help, I hope? Adendorff: It all depends on what ...
Bromhead: [Adendorff has explained the classic Zulu 'buffalo' battle formation] It looks er... jolly simple, doesn't it? Adendorff: It's, er, jolly deadly, old boy. Bromhead: [laughs] Well done, Adendorff, we'll make an Englishmen of you yet!
Colour Sergeant Bourne: [Quoting Psalm 46, v10-11 just before the battle] I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of Hosts is with us. Cpl. William Allen: I hope so. As I live and die, I hope so.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: It's fear dries the mouth, isn't it? When a man's as thirsty as this. Lieutenant John Chard: I could have drunk a river.
Lieutenant John Chard: Well, you've fought your first action. Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Does everyone feel like this afterwards? Lieutenant John Chard: How do you feel? Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Sick. Lieutenant John Chard: Well, you have to ...
Sergeant Windridge: Owen! Pte. Owen: Yes, Sergeant? Sergeant Windridge: You've got a voice haven't you? Pte. Owen: Yes, baritone, Sergeant. Sergeant Windridge: Well get up on that hill and sing out if you see anything. You too. And take your bandook,...
Cpl. Frederic Schiess, NNC: What do you know about Zulus? Pte. Robert Jones: Bunch of savages, isn't it?
Colour Sergeant Bourne: The sentries report Zulus to the south west. Thousands of them.
Cpl. William Allen: You slovenly soldier, Hitch.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Adendorff, what's wrong with them? Why don't they fight? Adendorff: They're counting your guns. Lieutenant John Chard: *What?* Adendorff: Can't you see that old boy up on the hill? He's counting your guns. Testing your f...
Commissary Dalton: Careful! Pop that chap somebody! Good fellow, good fellow!
