The Patriot (2000)

Tom Wilkinson: Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis

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• Lord General Cornwallis : Their names and ranks?

  Benjamin Martin : They refuse to give me their names, but the ranks are nine lieutenants, five captains, three majors, and one very fat colonel who called me a... "cheeky fellow."

• Lord General Cornwallis : Fine soldier you are, bested by a bedtime story.

• Lord General Cornwallis : Colonel Tavington, why, after six weeks, am I still here at Middleton place attending a ball in South Carolina while I should be attending balls in NORTH CAROLINA?

• Lord General Cornwallis : This is not the conduct of a gentleman!

  Benjamin Martin : If the conduct of your officers is the measure of a gentleman, then I'll take that as a compliment.

• Lord General Cornwallis : [referring to a replacement formal coat]  It's horse blanket.

  Colonel William Tavington : Oh, I don't know, my Lord. It's really... quite nice.

  General O'Hara : Very nice, my Lord.

  Lord General Cornwallis : Very well, it's nice horse blanket.

• Lord General Cornwallis : These rustics are so inept. It nearly takes the honor out of victory. Nearly.

• Lord General Cornwallis : Tavington. Damn him! Damn that man!

• [At the Battle of Cowpens] 

  General O'Hara : My Lord, if we re-form and wheel right, we may be able to turn their flank.

  Lord General Cornwallis : You dream, General.

• General O'Hara : [At the Battle of Cowpens watching the Colonial Militia retreat]  Congratulations My Lord.

  Lord General Cornwallis : Infantry reserve into the center.

  General O'Hara : But My Lord, you've taken the field.

  Lord General Cornwallis : Now we will take their spirits! Send the entire battalion over that hill and crush them! It ends today!

• Lord General Cornwallis : Everything will change. Everything has changed.