Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Rifles (1993)

Jason Salkey: Harris

Quotes 

• [Sharpe is asking his men about their pasts] 

  Sharpe : Well?

  Harris : Harris. From Wheatley in Oxfordshire.

  Sharpe : And previously?

  Harris : A courtier to my lord Bacchus and an unremitting debtor.

  Sharpe : You're a rake and a wastrel, Harris. Is there anything you *can* do?

  Harris : I can read, sir.

• Patrick Harper : We don't want to go south, sir.

  Richard Sharpe : And what the hell do I care what you and the lads want, eh? You think the British Army's a bloody dem...

  [searches] 

  Richard Sharpe : Dem...

  Harris : Democracy, sir. Comes from the Greek word "demos" and means "rule by-"

  Richard Sharpe : Shut up, Harris!