The Best Col. Winnant Quotes

Captain: [Bolton is looking through his binoculars, seeing the civilian ships arrive] What do you see?
Commander: [smiling] Home.

Captain: [sighs, boards the evacuation ship] Churchill got his 30,000.
Commander: And then some. Almost 300,000...
[closes the barrier in front of him to the ship]
Commander: ... so far.
Captain: [looks up at Bolton] So far?
Commander: I'm staying. For the French.

[Bolton and Winnant are having a heated discussion about the evacuation]
Captain: They need to send more ships. Every hour, the enemy pushes closer.
Commander: They've activated the small vessels pool.
Captain: Small vessels?
Commander: It's a list of civilian boats for requisition.
Captain: Civilian? We need destroyers!
Commander: Small boats can load from the beach.
Captain: Not in these conditions!
Commander: Well, I'd rather fight waves than dive-bombers.
Captain: [Beat] No, you're right. They won't get up in this. The Royal Engineers are building piers from lorries. At least that should help us when the tide comes back.
Commander: Well, we'll know in six hour's time.
Captain: I thought the tides were every three?
Commander: Then it's good that you're Army and I'm Navy, isn't it?

Commander: The enemy tanks have stopped.
Captain: Why? Why waste precious tanks when they can pick us off from the air like fish in a barrel?

Commander: You can practically see it from here.
Captain: What?
Commander: Home.

Commander: The tide's turning now.
Captain: How can you tell?
Commander: The bodies are coming back.