- Lord Raglan: It will be a sad day for England when her armies are officered by men who know too well what they are doing - it smacks of murder.
- Capt. Louis Edward Nolan: One day there will be an army where troopers will not be force to fight by floggings and hard reins. An army, a Christian army that fights because it is paid well to fight. And fights well because its women and children are well cared for. An army that is efficient and of a professional feather. I must fight for such an army... That army will bring the first of the modern wars, and the last of the gallop.
- Lord Cardigan: [of his soldiers] If they can't fornicate, they can't fight - and if they don't fight hard, I'll flog their backs raw, for all their fine looks.
- Lord Raglan: Young ladies should concern themselves with what is pretty. England is pretty... babies are pretty... some table linen can be very pretty...
- Lord Cardigan: [during the Battle of the Alma] Lucan, you're a stewstick.
- Lord Lucan aka George Charles Bingham: Fetch off!
- Lord Cardigan: Poltroon.
- Lord Lucan aka George Charles Bingham: Bum-roll!
- Lord Cardigan: Why don't you draw your horse from round your ears? Bring your head out of his arse.
- Lord Cardigan: [about to jump on Mrs Duberly] It is by no means a bad thing when getting onto a strange horse for the first time to give the middle of the saddle three or four bangs with the flat of your hand!
- Lord Cardigan: [his first lines in the film] I do not propose to recount my life in any detail, what is what. No damn business of anyone's, what is what. I am Lord Cardigan. That is what.
- Capt. Featherstonhaugh: You're a mad man, sir
- Capt. Louis Edward Nolan: And you are on your arse... sir.
- Mogg: (when a young officer faints at the sight of a man being flogged): Always one of your younger type of hofficer fetches up or flops over. They fades away like Lily at bedtime.
- Mogg: [observing a flogging] They won't fight unless they're flogged to it. Would you 'ave them fight for money - or ideas? That would be hun-Christian.
- Lord Cardigan: Well, here goes the last of the Brudenells. The Brigade will advance ! Trumpeter, walk march !
- Lord Cardigan: I shall have you arrested. You *are* arrested. Go to your quarters, sir, and be arrested!
- Capt. Louis Edward Nolan: There is no place happier than a cavalry mess, if one is a stupid, inconsiderate and lazy man one can fit as a round peg into a snug round hole. At times I'm so pent-up with their languor I could scrap hold of any two of them and bang their noddles together till their doodles drop off.
- Maj. Gen. Sir John Campbell: [to the Highland Cavalry] Whoever is wounded, lie where he is until a bandsman comes to him. No soldier may go off carrying wounded men. If any man does such a thing, his name shall be stuck up in his parish church. Come! Advance!
- Lord Raglan: Airey! Wake up! We're surrounded. The French! They're in the courtyard.
- General Airey: Our allies, my Lord
- Lt. Gen. Sir George Brown: Watch your places and your dressing and slash into them! Take 'em at the drum and what, lads! View halloo! View halloo! View halloo!
- Lord Raglan: Is that Sir George Brown down there? Captain, my compliments to Sir George and will he stop those confounded 'View Halloo's?" My horse expects to put up a fox at any moment.
- General Airey: [During the Battle of the Alma] My Lord, the Cavalry are to advance at once!
- Lord Raglan: No.
- General Airey: Yes, they must!
- Lord Raglan: No. The Cavalry will escort the guns on the road to Sebastapol. Lord Lucan to the left, Lord Cardigan to the right, the guns in between. Better safe than sorry with those two gentlemen, eh? The Cavalry may not attack, but they may take prisoners.
- Marshall St. Arnaud: [Collapses and dies. All remove their hats in respect]
- Lord Raglan: I told you he wasn't well, Airey.