General Lord Chelmsford Quotes in Zulu Dawn (1979)

[British lancers have just ridden down and killed a Zulu warrior]

Lt. Melvill: Well done, Sir! Did you see that Noggs? Deceived him with the up and took him with the down.

Norris-Newman: Well well, this one's a grandfather at least. If he'd been a Zulu in his prime I'd have given odds against your lancer, Mr. Melvill.

General Lord Chelmsford: Well, gentlemen, first blood to us and a rousing good report in the newspapers to satisfy the politicians, eh?

General Lord Chelmsford: After lunch, Brown, I want you to return to Isandhlwana and instruct Col. Pulleine to join us here immediately.

Col. Hamilton-Brown: If you'll excuse me, My Lord.

General Lord Chelmsford: No appetite, Colonel?

Col. Hamilton-Brown: My men haven't eaten since yesterday and there won't be any supplies until I get them back to Isandhlwana.

General Lord Chelmsford: Then they can start off now and you can join them when you've eaten.

Col. Hamilton-Brown: Kind of you, My Lord, but I don't think it would be proper for me to sit at your table, they with their bellies stuck to their backbones.

[Exits]

Lt. Harford: [rising to follow Hamilton-Brown] Excuse me, Sir.

General Lord Chelmsford: [to Lt. Harford] Learn nothing from that Irishman, Harford, except how not to behave.

General Lord Chelmsford: For a savage, as for a child, chastisement is sometimes a kindness.

Sir Henry Bartle Frere: Let us hope, General, that this will be the final solution to the Zulu problem.