Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Waterloo (1997)

Owen Brenman: Witherspoon

Quotes 

• Witherspoon : [taking out a notebook]  What time?

  Richard Sharpe : What?

  Witherspoon : What time did it stop? The cannonade. I have it as ten minutes of midday, but the Duke likes it accurate, you see.

  Richard Sharpe : What time is it now?

  Witherspoon : Oh, uh...

  [fumbles with his pocketwatch] 

  Witherspoon : Four minutes after midday, save a few...

  Richard Sharpe : You'd best write down that they're coming, then.

  Witherspoon : Coming?

  Richard Sharpe : The French are advancing.

  [Witherspoon looks into the woods, where a huge French column is advancing] 

  Witherspoon : Ah, so they are. Thank you, my dear fellow, I might have missed that.

• Rossendale : [confessing the truth of how his sword was broken]  There were no bloody Lancers today. He broke my sword, Witherspoon... .Sharpe.

  Witherspoon : I won't tell.

  Rossendale : Thank you. Well, he got his note for the money. Much good will it do him; I have no money and Jane won't give me any more 'till I marry her. He gave her to me... said he'd sell her, some ghastly country custom that swine sell their wives, Withers. I love her to distraction, you know... more than honor... but to keep her I must kill him. He's a far better man than I, sir... so tomorrow I lose her and my honor.

  Witherspoon : [looks at Rossendale for a moment, then:]  It is to do with honor, isn't it, old chap? Not duels. There is one way you can win all, you know.

  Rossendale : Is there? How?

  Witherspoon : Fight like a blue hero tomorrow.