Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Challenge (2006)

Michael Cochrane: Simmerson

Quotes 

• General Sir Henry Simmerson : You should be wary of this one, McRae. He thinks because Wellington raised him up from the sewer that it somehow makes him a gentleman. Don't know your place, do you Sharpie?

  Richard Sharpe : Maybe not, but I know how to stand before a French column. I know how to face fire without soiling my breeches and turning tail.

• General Sir Henry Simmerson : For a horse dealer, Mr. Harper, you seem remarkably well informed!

  Patrick Harper : Well sir you see, a horse dealer picks up more round and about, than just shit on his boots, sir.

• General Sir Henry Simmerson : Sharpe! I see time has done nothing to improve a want of etiquette in you. Still the same, whore-mongering, gutter trash of memory!

  Richard Sharpe : Aye, and you're still the same cruel, flogging bastard!

  General Sir Henry Simmerson : Cruel, sir? I calls it discipline!

• General Sir Henry Simmerson : A battle's no place for private vengeance, Captain. Not when there's a job to be done.

  Mohan Singh : Sir, whether I fight for my blood, or for the sake of his Britannic Majesty, a dead bandit is a dead bandit!

  General Sir Henry Simmerson : Very well, if you're so resolved, I suppose you must go.

  Mohan Singh : Thank you sir.

• General Sir Henry Simmerson : [staring at the head sent by Khande Rao]  They killed with a nail, McRae. A nail! Driven into his *skull!*

  Patrick Harper : He was, general, but not by any hammer. This is the work of jettis. Professional strongmen: killing people in interesting ways is part of their remit.

• Simmerson : The second rule of war, Sharpe, which you'd know if you'd ever learned anything beyond insolence towards your superiors, is: never reinforce failure!

  Sharpe : Oh, i know that rule. Though judging by that birchet on your shoulder, it seems *this* army is resolved to prove you its living exception!

• Sharpe : [trying to get official permission to leave on a special mission]  If Captain Singh and his Lancers help me, Mr. Harper and I should prove sufficient to the job.

  Simmerson : You and Harper, eh? - I don't mind if you do die, Sharpe. It's long past your time, ain't it?

  Sharpe : If that's permission...

  Simmerson : Oh, by all means. Go and die, Sharpe!

• General Sir Henry Simmerson : [unsatisfied with the flogging]  Lay it on hard, man, don't tickle him!

• General Sir Henry Simmerson : [thinking about his monologue]  What do you say, Stokes? Which suits better? Glinting or glimmering?

  Stokes : [is hard of hearing, so does not hear Simmerson at first] 

  General Sir Henry Simmerson : Stokes!

  Stokes : Sir?

  General Sir Henry Simmerson : Glinting or glimmering?

  Stokes : Uh...as you have it, sir. As you have it.

  General Sir Henry Simmerson : Yes, yes, I think so too...glinting. So did I, so did I...