Lt. Chard The Army doesn't like more than one defeat in a day.
Lt. Bromhead
Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast.
Played by Stanley Baker 
Zulu (1964) · 22 quotes
Zulu (1964) · 22 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Zulu (1964): in 7 of its 22 quotes
Most scenes with: Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead (5)
Scenes with Lt. Chard
7 scenes Lt. Chard
Lt. Bromhead
The entire column? It's damned impossible! Eight hundred men?
Adendorff Twelve hundred men. There were four hundred native levies, also.
Damn the levies, man, more cowardly blacks!
Adendorff What the hell do you mean, "cowardly blacks"? They died on your side, didn't they? And who the hell do you think is coming to wipe out your little command? The Grenadier Guards? [Adendorff begins to walk away]
Lt. Chard Adendorff, are you staying?
Adendorff Is there anywhere else to go?
Lt. Chard Talk to our levies, will you? Tell them whose side they're on.
Lt. Chard [Colour Sergeant Bourne and several other soldiers have brought a drunken Mr. Witt and his daughter to their wagon to get them away before the Zulus attack.]
Keep driving with the sun at your back. Should make it safely.
Mr. Witt Sergeant!
Margareta Witt Father!
Mr. Witt Leave me alone!
Lt. Chard Try to understand him, Miss Witt.
Mr. Witt Death awaits you! You have made a covenant with death and with Hell you are in agreement! You're all going to die! Don't you realize? Can't you see? You're all going to die! [Chard whips one of the horses. They start, pulling the Witts and their carriage away.] DIE! Death awaits you all! Die! Die!
He's right. Why is it us? Why us?
Because we're here, lad. Nobody else. Just us.
Lt. Chard Colour Sergeant.
Right. Now, get back to your posts! On the double!
Lt. Chard [At the ruins of the garrison hospital]
Who was left in here?
Lt. Bromhead
I don't know.
Lt. Chard They had names, they had faces, they were our men. What do you mean you don't know?
Lt. Bromhead
Chard!
Lt. Chard All right. Well, you've fought your first action.
Lt. Bromhead
Does everyone feel like this afterward?
Lt. Chard How do you feel?
Lt. Bromhead
I feel... sick.
Lt. Chard Well, you have to be alive to feel sick.
Lt. Bromhead
You asked me, I told you. There's... something else. I feel ashamed. Was that how it was for you? The first time?
Lt. Chard The first time? You think I could stand this butcher's yard more than once?
Lt. Bromhead
I didn't know.
Lt. Chard I told you. I came up here to build a bridge.
Lt. Chard Thank you, for what you said.
Lt. Bromhead
Hm? Oh, you mean about our needing you? Don't bother, old boy, it's true.
Sir, sentries report the Zulus have gone. All of them! It's a miracle.
Lt. Chard If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer-Henry point-four-five caliber miracle.
Sgt. Bourne
And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind it.
Adendorff [Adendorff sees the Zulus re-forming on a hill.]
Damn you... God damn you!
Lt. Chard Adendorff, what are they doing? Answer me!
Adendorff Haven't you had enough? Both of you?! Can't you see your damned egos don't matter anymore? We're dead.
Lt. Bromhead
[shouting at Zulus]
Well, what are you waiting for? Come on! Come on!
Adendorff [Realizing what the Zulus are really doing, he begins to laugh]
No, you couldn't be more wrong! They're saluting you. They're saluting fellow braves!
Narrator (Richard Burton)[edit]