Stephen Dillane movie quotes

16 quotes from 3 movies

King Arthur (2004) as Merlin

View Quote (In native Tongue')There might be a purpose for Artorius and his knights

View Quote Peace between us this night, Arthur Castus. So Rome is leaving. The Saxon have come. The world we have known and fought for is ended. Now, we must make a new world.

View Quote That sword you carry is made of iron from this earth, forged in the fires of Britain. It was love of your mother that freed the sword, not hatred of me. Love, Arthur.

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Spy Game (2001) as Charles Harker

View Quote Charles Harker: If these walls could talk, huh. All this history, I envy you.
Nathan Muir: Then bag your job, you can be just like me.
Charles Harker: No, really. The debt this country owes you guys.
Nathan Muir: Chuck, are you gonna dance with your hand on my ass all night or are you gonna make your move?

View Quote Charles Harker: We need the press on this like we need a third tit.
Nathan Muir: You using the other two?

View Quote Charles Harker: So, sir, you and Muir came up together, right?
Troy Fogler: Mmm-hmm.
Charles Harker: How well do you know him?
Troy Fogler: No one knows Nathan, not really.
Charles Harker: Do you trust him?
Troy Fogler: He's a man who got the job done.

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Darkest Hour (2017) as Viscount Halifax

View Quote The deadly danger here is this romantic fantasy of fighting to the end. What is "the end" if not the destruction of all things? There's nothing heroic in going down fighting if it can be avoided. Nothing even remotely patriotic in death or glory if the odds are firmly on the former. Nothing inglorious in trying to shorten a war we are clearly losing.

View Quote He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

View Quote Halifax: I will not stand by and watch another generation of young men die at the bloody altar of your hubris!
Winston Churchill: No, you would have us die as lambs!
Viscount Halifax: Was Gallipoli not enough for you?
Winston Churchill: HOW DARE YOU! Our troops were chewing barbed wire in Flanders and I saw it! Opening a second front, outflanking the Turks was a serious military idea and it could have damn well worked if the Admirals and the First Sea Lord hadn't dithered away the element of surprise!