Col. J.D.H. Stewart Quotes in Khartoum (1966)

Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon: Colonel, what are the chances of my sacking you as my aide?

Col. J.D.H. Stewart: If any exist General, please be assured that I'd be the first to point them out to you.

Col. J.D.H. Stewart: Why did you let them talk you into this mission?

Gen. Charles 'Chinese' Gordon: As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.