Sir Edmund Burton Quotes in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Sir Edmund Burton: It has been said throughout the ages, that there can be no victory, without sacrifice.

Sir Edmund Burton: One hundred billion trillion planets in the cosmos. You want to know, don't you, why they keep coming here?

[Cogman plays an organ]

Sir Edmund Burton: Stop that!

Cogman: I was trying to make the moment more epic.

Sir Edmund Burton: And now two worlds colliding, only one survives.

Sir Edmund Burton: [after Bulldog fires a warning shot at Cade and co] We have guests! What's wrong with you?

Bulldog: I got bits falling off!

Bumblebee: [Through radio] What the hell?

Sir Edmund Burton: I'm awfully sorry about that but, you see, he still thinks it's 1918 or 1915, 'Robot Dementia'. It's not all pretty.

Cade Yeager: Are you dragging me into some transformer retirement home?

Cogman: Mm-hmm!

Cade Yeager: Somebody better start talking or I'm outta here!

Sir Edmund Burton: Yes, but you want to know, don't you? why they keep coming here. to earth, right?

[Hot Rod is seen speeding down the lane]

Sir Edmund Burton: Ah, I do so love perfect timing!

[Hot Rod transforms and throws out Vivian, she tries to attack him]

Hot Rod: Little lady, no!

[Gets hit by the club, the golf head coming off on impact]

Hot Rod: Ow!

Cade Yeager: So, is this a kidnapping sort of situation or her first Transformer experience?

Sir Edmund Burton: Well, it's both really.

Hot Rod: She's very difficult!

Sir Edmund Burton: [to Cade] You want to know, don't you, duuuude? Why they keep coming here?

Sir Edmund Burton: The imminent destruction of all we know and love, begins now.

Sir Edmund Burton: These are troubled times. Without leaders, chaos reigns.

Sir Edmund Burton: And now the greatest mission of all, to turn the tide of human history...

[Hot Rod tries to reason with a terrified Vivian]

Cade Yeager: Is this a kidnapping sort of situation, or is it her first Transformers experience?

Sir Edmund Burton: It's both, really.

Sir Edmund Burton: It started as a legend, one of the greatest of all... For a thousand years, weve kept it hidden, to protect Earth from what is expected to arrive...

Vivian Wembley: [on Hot Rod] Is he French?

Sir Edmund Burton: No, he just likes the accent.

Hot Rod: Non! No no no, I hate the accent! But I can't get rid of it! I'm stuck with the accent!

Sir Edmund Burton: Careful, that's the watch that killed Hitler!

Sir Edmund Burton: [holds up the watch that killed Hitler] When this was unleashed, everybody around it died!

Sir Edmund Burton: [mortally wounded] I had it, Cogman... I had my moment...

Cogman: This is the hardest part of my duty: watching all my charges leave.

Sir Edmund Burton: Thank you. Carry on.

Cogman: Of all the Earls I have served with, you were the coolest.

Sir Edmund Burton: Miss Viviane Wembly: Master of History, Oxford; Doctor of Philosophy, also Oxford; and Doctor of Letters, Oxford again, I think. Anything else? Anyway, meet Cade.

Cade Yeager: ...Yeager. Cade Yeager. I'm an inventor.