That Hamilton Woman Movie 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.
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[Emma has just recounted her story to her cellmate, ending with her learning of Nelson's death]
The Streetgirl
And then?
Emma
Then what?
The Streetgirl
What happened after?
Emma
There is no "then". There is no "after".
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Emma
...and I forgot London, and the old ways. I was young. I healed quickly. I learned French and Italian, music and dancing. And one day, I had more than I ever dreamed of. I became his wife... Emma, Lady Hamilton.
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Emma
[shocked after seeing Lord Nelson's wounds]
They told us of your victories but not of the price you paid!
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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!
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Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
[Greeting a lady in waiting for the Queen of Naples]
Good morning, your ladyship. My daughter, her ladyship, is still resting. And how is Her Majesty's sore throat? You know the best thing for a sore throat is to wrap a woolen sock around your neck before bed.
Sir William Hamilton
Good morning, your ladyship.
[to Emma's mother]
Sir William Hamilton
Is Emma still asleep?
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
She is asleep. In my village, a husband just turns round in bed to look for himself.
Sir William Hamilton
Yes, and the Queen of Naples does not wear woolen socks!
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Sir William Hamilton
[places left hand on statue]
Look at this statue. Two hundred years in a Greek temple, then thrown in the the mud by some barbarian soldier. Two thousand years sinking lower and lower into the mud, then dug up by the power of a peasant - changing hands every year until, at last, it comes to its rightful place: into the hands of someone who understands the glory of its beauty. Because my friend, it is still beautiful isn't it? Despite its past.
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Emma
I don't care how dull it is. I want to know.
Sir William Hamilton
Well, here's England.
Emma
Such a tiny little bit. Where are we?
Sir William Hamilton
Here at Naples.
Emma
But why should England fight?
Sir William Hamilton
Well because, all through these centuries, she has built up a commonwealth in which every little spot has its purpose and value to the balance line of life. And there are always men, who for the sake of their insane ambition, want to destroy what other people build. And therefore this 'tiny little bit', as you call it Emma, has to send out its ships again and again to fight those who want to dictate their world to others.
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Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
Oh! Look at that mountain with the smoke coming out of it. The coachman said it went off a few years ago and killed several people. Now that sort of thing would never happen in Liverpool.
Emma
Oh mother you're hopeless. That's the famous volcano. People come miles to see it. What do they call it? Charles told me a hundred times. Smoking mountain... Vesuvius! That's it, Vesuvius. If Sir William asks you what you think of it just say it's lovely.
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
Yes dear.
Emma
It's all mixed up with the history of ancient Rome. Nero set it on fire and then said the Christians did it. Remember mother, it's knowing little things like that that makes you a lady.
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Sir William Hamilton
You know Emma, there are three kinds of deceived husbands in the world: first are those who were born to be decieved, second who do not know, and third who do not care. I've been wondering for some time now which of the three I'd be myself.
Emma
Have you forgotten the fourth kind William? The kind that is hard, and empty, and gives nothing. You married me because you wanted a new ornament for your house -
[motions to each]
Emma
like that painting, or that statue, or that vase. As far as you're concerned I'm just as ornamental, and just as dead.
Sir William Hamilton
But my dear, how can you call my statues dead? When I'm alone and rather tired, think what it means to me to have my statues with me. To know that they'll always be lovely, will never grow old, and never walk out with sailors. What a pity you're not going to see him again. It would have been a farewell scene of lasting beauty. I shall sleep beautifully tonight.
[nods]
Sir William Hamilton
Goodnight my dear.
[Exits the room]
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
[Hushed]
Emily, he's waiting for you, out on the balcony.
[Emma runs gleefully out onto the balcony into Lord Nelson's arms and they passionately kiss]
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
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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]
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Emma
'Her Excelency Lady Emma Hamilton, British Embassy, Naples'...
[looks slightly sad]
Emma
'Charles Grevole, London.'
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
Open it child, open it.
Emma
I think not. Send it back, and write on 'unopened, return to sender'. Poor Charles, he's exactly three years too late. As far as I'm concerned, he simply doesn't exist.
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
Are you happy my child?
Emma
Happy? Three years ago my only idea of happiness was to be married to Charles Grevole. After that I wanted revenge. Well, I got that in a way too. Then I wanted to be presented at court, and even that impossible wish was granted to me. I got everything - everything a woman of the world could possibly wish for. So why shouldn't I be happy?... Aha, of course I'm happy mother!
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
Well Emma, what's good enough for you is good enough for me. And being mother to a ladyship is not to be sneezed at either.
[laughs merrily]
Emma
Oh you silly old thing!
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
Oh you're lovely Emma, you're so beautiful Emma.
Emma
And what about you?
[Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon continues laughing merrily as Emma teases her]
Emma
Look at you with your little cap and your silver buttons and your underskirt.
[they both hug]
Emma
You're the beautiful one.
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The French Ambassador
The older I get, the less I seem to know about women.
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Emma
Of all the inns in Naples, they choose this one.
Lord Horatio Nelson
Probably the last place in Naples they expected to find me.
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Emma
Oh, my darling, why do we always meet, just to say goodbye?
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Lady Frances Nelson
You fool! Don't you realize that everything she does is calculated and cold-blooded! She faints in the House of Lords! A perfect place! You suppose she'd have wasted time fainting in her own bedroom? You poor, silly man!
Lord Horatio Nelson
Poor and silly. Yes, that is what i am about her. I'm a peer of England because of her.
Lady Frances Nelson
[bitterly] And because of her I'm Lady Nelson. Lady Nelson! Ha, what an honor! They point after my coach, point up at my windows, point at me in the streets! There's a coarse joke about me in the taverns. A foul song about me on the limehouse barges. Lady Nelson, how funny! How pitiful! And how proud I might be!
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Emma
You know, I could get you those troops... like that. You were speaking rather loudly, Captain, and the houses over here get so stuffy if you close the doors. You're worried, aren't you? You have an important mission, haven't you? Has it ever occurred to you that women can sometimes be more help than men?
Lord Horatio Nelson
Not in a matter of this kind, Lady Hamilton.
Emma
How do you know? It just so happens I shall be seeing the Queen within the next ten minutes.
Lord Horatio Nelson
The Queen? This is an important matter of state.
Emma
All the more reason to see the Queen.
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The French Ambassador
Who is she?
Sir William Hamilton
Charles Greville found her.
The French Ambassador
Found her? Where can you fnd things like that?
Sir William Hamilton
Well, Charles happened to find her at Featherstone Castle. You know, Sir Harry's place.
The French Ambassador
Oh, she's a relation of Sir Harry?
Sir William Hamilton
She lived there for a whole hunting season, and a very gay hunting season, I'm told.
The French Ambassador
Oh, and where did Sir Harry find her?
Sir William Hamilton
You remember Dr. Graham's Temple of Hell, and the famous Dance of the Seven Veils?
The French Ambassador
She's a dancer?
Sir William Hamilton
You might call her that. She was quite a success. The fewer the veils, the greater the success. But, alas, the police locked the place just after the last veil fell.
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The French Ambassador
Did you come through Pisa? Did you see the famous leaning tower?
Emma
Yes, Your Excellency, and we thought it very beautiful. We thought the Leaning Tower of Pisa one of the most remarkable and lovely... phenomena in the whole of Europe.
Mrs. Cadogan-Lyon
A chimney went like that in Liverpool last year at the soap works. It leant right over the gin warehouse and the bishop said it was the finger of God!
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Captain Hardy
I'm under your orders, I'll do as I'm told. I'll sail this ship anywhere there is water under her keel, but I implore you, call Blackwood and Trowbridge back. Send the fleet where it's ordered to!
Lord Horatio Nelson
And leave our allies the King and Queen of Naples at the mercy of that rabble? You know what that mob would do to them! Have you forgotten what happened in Paris? They'll build that bestial guillotine in Naples!
Captain Hardy
But you know what they'll say in London, sir, it wasn't the royal family you went back for...
Lord Horatio Nelson
Be careful what you say!
Captain Hardy
I will say it! They'll say you went back for Lady Hamilton!
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Lady Frances Nelson
Do I understand that my husband will be forced to resign from the Navy?
Lord Spencer
Oh, no, no, no, no, Lady Nelson, hardly as drastic as that: extended leave, for the benefit of his health, will be suggested.
Lady Frances Nelson
A matter of different words, isn't that what you mean? I'm glad! You were quite right to spare the people of London the indignity of feting a hero who treats with contempt the most sacred rules of life!
Lord Spencer
May I say a personal word? Try to be forgiving, Lady Nelson, only the weaknesses of the great are glaring.
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Sir William Hamilton
We had the privilege of joining your husband in his triumphant procession across Europe. It was overwhelming, and quite exhausting for an old man. But my wife was in her element: she swallows triumph like a penguin swallows a herring.
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Rev. Nelson
Did you have a good crossing, Sir William?
Sir William Hamilton
Quite rough, I'm afraid. Everyone was seasick, and I was sicker than them all, and I made the mistake of trying to ward it off with pills and mixtures.
[looking directly at Lady Nelson]
Sir William Hamilton
But what's the good of trying to fight the elements? It's far more sensible, is it not, Lady Nelson, and so much easier, to accept their victory, whether those elements be around us, or within us?
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