Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Gold (1995)

Hugh Ross: Maj. Mungo Munro

Quotes 

• Munro : [Translating for El Casco]  "I do not kill Englishmen."

  Wellington : Ah.That's a relief.

  Munro : Not for the Scots.

• Wellington : Damned women!

  Major Mungo Munro : What now? Send a full search party?

  Wellington : Leave it to Sharpe!

• Lord Wellington : [about the French Marshal's advance]  I misjudged him. He's quicker than I thought.

  Major Mungo Munro : The man's a genius!

  Lord Wellington : [indignantly]  I think not. We can't have 2 geniuses in the peninsula!

• Munro : [to Sharpe]  You're in black trouble, Laddie!

  Richard Sharpe : How bad is it?

  Munro : Well, I could use words like 'dire' and 'dreadful', but I would not wish to cheer you up!

• Major Mungo Munro : This is sinful gambling, and I will have no part of it! I'm here to see fair play!

  Patrick Harper : It's only sinful, sir, if you lose.

• Major Mungo Munro : [about El Casco's guerrillas]  The story goes, there was a great shipwreck hereabouts, long long ago. A galleon, bearing treasure from Mexico to the King of Spain. Not only gold, but idols for him to see, even people from that terrible land.

  Richard Sharpe : Treasure?

  Major Mungo Munro : Ah that catches your ear, laddie? Well if it's still there, no one's found it!

  Bess Nugent : William heard of it too.

  Ellie Nugent : You said a 'terrible land'?

  Major Mungo Munro : The Aztecs of Mexico were a high civilization, and entirely evil!

  Ellie Nugent : How could that be?

  Lt. Ayres : Their religion was based on human sacrifice. They cut the living hearts out of their prisoners...

  Major Mungo Munro : That'll do for now, man.

  Lt. Ayres : ...thousands at a time. Or they skinned them.

  Major Mungo Munro : I said that'll do!

  Lt. Ayres : They even had a god of flaying...the flayed god...

  Richard Sharpe : Stop gloating, Ayres!

  Lt. Ayres : I came across it in my studies. Rather amusing.

  Ellie Nugent : Major Munroe, you didn't mean there could be any of that here?

  Major Mungo Munro : No. Well, maybe a taint turned into foolish nonsense, these folk are peasants.

  Ellie Nugent : And that's all?

• Munro : [to Sharpe]  'Washed in the blood of the lamb you should be', not just the blood of the French!