That Hamilton Woman (1941)

Laurence Olivier: Lord Horatio Nelson

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Quotes 

• Emma : What are those bells?

  Lord Horatio Nelson : Have you forgotten what night this is? Last of 1799; eight bells for the old year, and eight for the new. Happy New Year, darling.

  Emma : Happy New Year.

  Lord Horatio Nelson : The dawn of a new century.

  Emma : 1800. How strange it sounds.

  Lord Horatio Nelson : What a century it's been: Marlborough rode to war, and Washington crossed the Delaware. Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette. The last of the Stuarts. Peter the Great. Voltaire. Clive of India. Bonaparte...

  Emma : ...Nelson.

• Lord Horatio Nelson : Gentlemen, you will never make peace with Napoleon! Napoleon cannot be master of the world until he has smashed us up, and believe me, gentlemen, he means to be master of the world! You cannot make peace with dictators. You have to destroy them, wipe them out!

• Lord Horatio Nelson : My dear wife

  [Emma repeats 'my dear wife' and continues to scribe the letter for Lord Nelson] 

  Lord Horatio Nelson : My heartiest greetings from Naples to you and father. I'm in the house of the Hamiltons, and it has taken all their care and kindness to pull me through. I hope someday to have the pleasure of introducing you to Lady Hamilton. Lady Hamilton is one of the very best women in the world and an honor to her sex.

  [Emma looks subtly surprised]