Top 30 Quotes From Dunkirk

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

Shivering: [Referring to George] Will, uh... Will he be all right? The boy.
Peter: [after a long pause] Yeah.

Commander: Seeing home doesn't help us get there, Captain.

Collins: [Upon being rescued by Peter] Afternoon.

Mr. Dawson: [about planes approaching from behind] Spitfires, George. Greatest plane ever built.
Grenadier: You didn't even look.
Mr. Dawson: Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. Sweetest sound you could hear out here.

Irate: Where's the bloody air force?

[first lines]
Tommy: [to French soldiers] English! I'm English! Anglais!

Blind: Well done, lads. Well done.
Alex: All we did is survive.
Blind: That's enough.

Commander: Cut her loose and push her off! We can't let her sink at the mole! Push that bloody boat off!

Alex: [about Gibson] He doesn't speak English. If he does, it's with an accent thicker than sauerkraut sauce.

Mr. Dawson: [On the Shivering Soldier] He's shell-shocked, George. He's not himself. He might never be himself again.

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

Collins: Dunkirk's so far; why couldn't they load at Calais?
Radio: The enemy had something to say about it.

Collins: Oil. It's oil, oil - you're getting into oil!

Shivering: You haven't turned around.
Mr. Dawson: No, we have a job to do.
Shivering: Job? This is a pleasure yacht. You're weekend sailors, not the bloody navy. A man your age?
Mr. Dawson: Men my age dictate this war. Why should we be allowed to send our children to fight it?
Shivering: You should be at home!
Mr. Dawson: Well, there won't be any home if we allow a slaughter across the Channel. There's no hiding from this.

[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?

[last lines]
Tommy: We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be...
Alex: What?
Tommy: We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. And even if this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Shivering: Turn it around!

Peter: Careful! Careful down there!
Alex: [Alex looks up from George's body] He's dead, mate.
Peter: [Beat] So be bloody careful with him.

Commander: Well, I'd rather face waves than dive-bombers.

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?

Tommy: It's not fair...!
Alex: Survival's not fair!

Grenadier: [when Tommy stands in their line] It's grenadiers, mate.

Title: The enemy has driven the British and French armies to the sea. Trapped at Dunkirk, they await their fate. Hoping for deliverance. For a miracle.

Tommy: Wars are not won by evacuation.

Collins: [pursued by a German fighter] He's on me.
Farrier: [turns to pursue said fighter] I'm on him.

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

Irate: [On the pier in England, Collins steps off Dawson's boat, watching soldiers walk by. One looks at Collins angrily] Where the bloody hell were you?
Mr. Dawson: [to Collins] He knows exactly where you were.

Tommy: How hard is it to find a dead Englishman on Dunkirk beach? He didn't kill anyone!

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.