Eagle in a Cage

[first lines]

Count Bertrand:
Allow me to introduce myself.

Sir Hudson Lowe:
That's quite unnecessary. I know who you are.

Sir Hudson Lowe:
You are free to move anywhere on the island, provided you are accompanied by an English officer.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
I am not your prisoner.

Sir Hudson Lowe:
You held a great deal of power for a very long time. I expect it's not easy to accept someone else in command. Nevertheless, that is the fact of the matter.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
The Pope considered me despicable, yet he crossed the Alps to anoint me. The King of Austria called me a Corsican gutter rat, and gave me his daughter as a bride. Anyone can make use of a friend. The trick is to use one's enemies.

Barry O'Meara:
Apart from my duties as your physician, I'm required to report daily that I've seen you as a precaution against escape. I agreed to obey that order on the condition that I could inform you of it. I'm not a spy.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
I have nothing against spies.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
I'd like a bible.

Sir Hudson Lowe:
It never occurred to me that you were religious.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
I only read the love poetry. And the battle scenes. You can learn a lot from those Old Testament boys.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
Power is my art. I love it. The way a musician loves his instrument.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
You think there's always a choice between good and evil? Sometimes there's only a choice between horrors.

Barry O'Meara:
Why, when a respectable man does something despicable, does he always insist it's his duty?

Sir Hudson Lowe:
Could I say although this is the first time I've had the honor of meeting you in person, I've long regarded you with the utmost admiration; well aware that you make a point of keeping out of the public eye, and that many of your countrymen are unaware of the historic services that you have rendered to...

Lord Sissal:
[interrupting] Do you always talk so much, or is it a disease one catches out here?

Napoleon Bonaparte:
There are only two kinds of men in the world: those who will use you, and those you can use.

Lord Sissal:
Ah, Thomas.

Barry O'Meara:
Yes sir?

Lord Sissal:
Saw your father before I left. Asked me to inquire how you were getting on.

Barry O'Meara:
[who thinks his father is a political sell-out] Tell him I'm working on a plot to burn Parliament.

Lord Sissal:
[laughing] I'll tell him! Never liked your father. Puritanical bastard! Stupid as a flatiron!

Lord Sissal:
[laughing] Set fire to Parliament! That's it! Incinerate the bastards!

Lord Sissal:
Either accept our terms, or you hang. It's what's known in the law books as blackmail, and in the history books as statesmanship.

Betty Balcombe:
Papa is sending me to school in London. God, how I longed for it! Begged him! He wouldn't hear of it.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
How did you manage?

Betty Balcombe:
I found a man I could use: I told him I was in love with you. He can't wait to pack me off.

Napoleon Bonaparte:
When I go into battle, I never bother to take food for all my troops. It stands to reason some of them will be killed. Why bother hauling provisions for corpses?

[last lines]

Lord Sissal:
It appears the gentleman will be staying. Carry on as before.