- Honorable Charles Greville: [about Emma] I am sorry to lose a good cook, but I will not tolerate a brazen hussy.
- Emma Hart: This is the end of your fine plot - I'm not one to be passed from hand to hand! I'm done with fine gentlemen!
- Horatio Nelson: [referring to his lost arm and eye] There's not much left of me. I'm as battered and scarred as my ship.
- Lady Emma Hart Hamilton: I think you both the most noble sights my eyes have had the honor to look upon.
- Horatio Nelson: [to Hardy before the Battle of the Nile] Today will mean a peerage for me or a tomb in Westminster Abbey.
- Emma Hart: Oh, sir, I know I'm vulgar, but I could learn from an elegant gentleman like you - so aristocratic - so kind - so handsome. I'll work my fingers to the bone, if only you'll let me stay!
- Harridan Neighbor: I won't have my children hobnobbin' with the likes of you - as ought to be married and ain't!
- Honorable Charles Greville: My dear Uncle, this is indeed a pleasant surprise - I do hope to have the pleasure of your company later in the evening.
- Sir William Hamilton: Delighted, Greville. I'm most anxious to see your unpolished gem.
- Emma Hart: Greville, aren't you going with me?
- Honorable Charles Greville: Your vulgar display is unforgivable - I'll return later with my uncle.
- Title Card: And so destiny beckons Emma to the little kingdom of Naples nestling in the Mediterranean.
- Sir William Hamilton: I'm simply exhausted! Those Frenchmen, with their infernal Revolution - are upsetting all Europe!
- Lady Emma Hart Hamilton: [singing] O ye'll tak' the high road, and I'll tak' the low road, And he'll be in Scotland before me, Where me and my true love will never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. For ye'll tak' the high road, and I'll tak' the low road, And he'll be in Scotland before me, Where me and my true love...
- Title Card: 1795 - 1796: World-shattering years - when a mob and a tune conquered France and shook the thrones of Europe.
- Queen Maria Carolina: You have more news for me?
- Sir William Hamilton: Your sister, Queen Marie Antoinette...
- Queen Maria Carolina: Not the guillotine!
- Horatio Nelson: I must sail for Gibraltar on the flood tide - I have failed England.
- Lady Emma Hart Hamilton: You have never failed England - you will not fail her now!
- Horatio Nelson: Emma!
- Lady Emma Hart Hamilton: Love is not for us, Nelson! You belong to England - to your wife - and I...
- Horatio Nelson: Whatever happens, I'm thankful for this moment between us! The sound of your voice - the touch of your fingers - will always be my courage and inspiration!
- Horatio Nelson: Will you sing for me - one last song?
- Lady Emma Hart Hamilton: [singing] O ye'll tak' the high road, and I'll tak' the low road, And he'll be in Scotland before me, Where me and my true love will never meet again...
- Parade Watcher: They say 'e's mad about 'er! You can't blame 'I'm - she's so purty!
- Sir William Hamilton: Emma is in a heaven of excitement.
- Honorable Charles Greville: But my dear Uncle, I feel it my duty to tell you that the rumors about Emma and - er - Nelson - are not of a heavenly nature.
- Sir William Hamilton: My dear Nephew, I never pay attention to rumors - they might be true!
- Honorable Charles Greville: Don't you realize what this means? Her Majesty refused to acknowledge your wife!
- Sir William Hamilton: Her Majesty shows admirable discretion, I think.
- Honorable Charles Greville: I scarcely thought I should ever greet Emma of Fadington Green - as the famous Lady Hamilton!
- Lady Emma Hart Hamilton: There were many things you didn't think, Greville.
- Honorable Charles Greville: One should never be sure of anything until it is accomplished, Lady Hamilton.
- Horatio Nelson: I have given much to England - all I ask of her is you.
- Lady Emma Hart Hamilton: I am the one thing England will never let you have.