Virginia McKenna credited as playing...
Duchess of Richmond
- [referring to the English troops]
- Duchess of Richmond: 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.
- Sarah: Mama, Iggy has promised to bring me a cuirassier's helmet to use as a work basket - without blood in it, Mama.
- Duchess of Richmond: And one for me, young man - *with* the blood.
- Sir William Ponsonby: And where do you plan to stick your Frenchman, Hay?
- Lord Richard Hay: I thought under the right arm, sir.
- Sarah: See? He has it all planned.
- General Sir Thomas Picton: When you meet a cuirassier beam-to-beam, you'll be lucky if you bring away your life with you, never mind his helmet. Boy, you'll learn the art of fighting from the French.
- Duchess of Richmond: ...this year, soldiers are the fashion.
- Duke of Wellington: [ironically] Where would society be without my boys?
- Sarah: When we get to Paris, let me look at Napoleon. I promise I won't get too near. Mama admires him.
- Duchess of Richmond: I am a little bit of a Bonapartist.
- Sarah: Is it true what they say, that he's a monster?
- Duke of Wellington: He eats laurels and drinks blood.
- Duchess of Richmond: And when, my dear Arthur, will you venture into his lair?