“The essential arithmetic is that our young men will have to shoot down their young men at the rate of four to one, if we're to keep pace at all.”
Laurence Olivier - Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding

“- John Ashwood II as a Boy: If there's a world war, I want to fight for England. You wouldn't want me to be a coward, would you?
- Susan Ashwood: No, darling.
- John Ashwood II as a Boy: Do you think father would like me to run away?
- Susan Ashwood: No, Johnny. I don't. Darn little Englishman. You're just like your father.”

Roddy McDowall - John Ashwood II as a Boy
Irene Dunne - Susan Ashwood

“England is under threat of invasion, and though we be on the far side of the world, this ship is our home. This ship, is England. So it's every hand to his rope or gun, quick's the word and sharp's the action.”

Russell Crowe - Capt. Jack Aubrey

“I can't stand to hear that man talk! Half the time I don't even know what he's saying. 'This is not the end; it is possibly the beginning of the end, and it is certainly the end of the beginning': do you know what that means? If you ask me, the British should spend more time bombing Germany and less time drinking tea!”

Brenda Blethyn - Auguste Rottgen-van Pels

“You seem to think warfare an English invention. Have you ever heard of Chandragupta Maurya? He slaughtered all the armies left in India by Alexander the Great.”
Eduardo Ciannelli - Guru