The Gathering Storm

Winston Churchill:
I'm the new First lord.

Military Guard:
We know, sir.

Winston Churchill:
How do you know?

Military Guard:
A signal was sent to the fleet this afternoon, sir.

Winston Churchill:
What signal?

Military Guard:
Winston is back.

Winston Churchill:
[chuckles] He bloody well is!

Winston Churchill:
I like pigs. Dogs look up to you; cats look down on you; pigs treat you as equals.

Winston Churchill:
Now that I'm in charge of the Navy, Mr. Hitler and his Nazi thugs had better look out. We're going to teach them a lesson that they'll never forget.

[the sound of Sarah tap-dancing can be heard through the ceiling]

Clemmie Churchill:
I think she wants to do it professionally.

Winston Churchill:
Annoy people?

Sir Robert Vansittart:
Do you know what Lloyd George said about him? "He'd use the skin of his mother as a drum to sound his own praises."

Winston Churchill:
There may be a war. I grant you that. Nevertheless we shall win.

Ralph Wigram:
How can you say that? It's just mindless optimism.

Winston Churchill:
[nods no] When I was at school, I had a friend called Merlind Evans. And one day we were talking about what we would do when we were grown up. And I don't know why I said this, or, why I thought it, but I said, "One day in the future, Britain will be in great danger, and it will fall to *me* to save London and the Empire."

Ralph Wigram:
Schoolboy fantasy. I wanted to play for England or climb Everest.

Winston Churchill:
[half nod no] My destiny. And I truly believe it.

Ralph Wigram:
You're an extraordinary man, Winston.

Winston Churchill:
I am, I know it.

Ralph Wigram:
Nobody but you could say that sort of thing and expect people to believe it.

Winston Churchill:
Destiny is what I believe in. Destiny commands. We must obey.

Winston Churchill:
You're very rude to me, Inches.

David Inches:
*You're* very rude to *me*, sir.

Winston Churchill:
Yes but I am a great man!

[Churchill leaves]

David Inches:
No, you're not. You're a stupid ole bugger.

Winston Churchill:
I've lived too long, I'm in the ruck, I've drunk too deeply of the cup, I cannot spend, I cannot f***, I'm down and out! I'm buggered up!

Winston Churchill:
Thank you.

Clemmie Churchill:
For what?

Winston Churchill:
For being rash enough to marry me, foolish enough to stay with me, and... for loving me in a way... I though I'd never be loved.

Desmond Morton:
[Churchill has just been made First Lord of the Admiralty] Mr Inches, I think a glass of champagne might be in order!

David Inches:
Well with respect, sir, I think we might save that for happier days.

Desmond Morton:
[crestfallen] Quite right.

David Inches:
However, there is a very good claret you might be interested in.