Episode II
"I can't forget about Madeline just like that" - Orry
"You don't have to forget her, you just have to stop thinking about her
for a while" - George
"Perhaps that's why I remember Orry, to help me forget my life here at
Resolute" - Madeline (I love how she says Resolute)
"I wanted to be the one to tell you, be here, see your faces when you hear the
good news, I have been dismissed from this academy...you be on your guard
because I won't forget you two, I wont forget you two ever." - Bent
"Be on our guard? For how long, the rest of our lives? - George (damn straight George!)
"Well, I guess the best thing I ever did at West Point was to make a good friend
from South Carolina." - George
"If you ever speak out and embarrass me on any subject whatsoever ever again,
you will suffer as you have never suffered before." - Justin
"I love you, I had to tell you just once." - Orry
"Forget me Orry, it's the only way." - Madeline
"We're supposed to be fighting Mexicans, not each other." - George
"Elkanah, you should learn to curve your enthusiasm for
yourself." - Senator Edwards
"I could dance with you forever." - George
"My father thinks he's very clever Lieutenant Hazard, he doesn't want me feeling
obligated to go back to Ireland with him, so he's been trying to find me a
husband." - Constance
"Your laugh is one of the beautiful things about you [Constance]." - George
"You know I fell in love with you during our very first dance." - Constance
"Was it my face or the uniform?" - George
"It was the way you looked when Major Laferty cut in on us, like a little lost
puppy dog." - Constance
"Nothing like a trip to hell to show you what it's like." - George
"Get up Bent, I always knew you were a coward. If you ever cross me or my friend
Orry Main again, I'll find you, and I'll kill you, just as sure as you crippled him." - George
"You know Pa won't be home for hours." - Constance
"We really shouldn't." - George
"And why not, aren't we almost married?" - Constance
"Oh, Maum Sally, I have to go to him [Orry], I have to, he needs me." - Madeline
"That is the one thing that you can never do." - Maum Sally
"Well, I don't think you [Orry] got the judgment of a mule right now.
All you can do is sit there and feel sorry about yourself."- George
"You're going to start at Lehigh Station by being the best man at my wedding
to Constance." - George
"I would be very proud to stand up with you George." - Orry
"Folks have said you've [Madeline] got about the kindest heart around
here." - Priam
"I wasn't sure for a while but I know now that I am very much alive." - Orry
Episode III
"Oh mother, we need to notify the architects, so we can set up slave
quarters in the back." - Virgilia
"The true crop of a Southern Plantation is a human crop." - Virgilia
"Quite a reputation around here, Madeline the Merciful." - Justin
"I've ridden by a hundred times hoping you'd be here." - Orry
"Oh, I tried to stay away too, but I couldn't." - Madeline
"There hasn't been a day that I hadn't thought about you." - Orry
"In my heart I'm married to you and I always will be." - Madeline
"I just don't understand you. Why weren't you stronger with him?...Instead you
let your brother George walk all over you." - Isabel
"We'll have out chance, we'll get back everything that your brother George
has stolen from us, him and his Irish slut of his. We're going to make them
sorry. Very sorry indeed." - Isabel
"They don't care about me, they treat me like I'm a stranger...hell if it wasn't
for my last name they wouldn't have me here at all." - Charles (opening lines)
"I've been a slave all my life, that don't mean that I liked it." - Semarimis
"It's best to take care of hard business early, and that's what I'm here to do." - Orry
"Is that so." - Jones
"I'm relieving you from your employ of Mont Royal..." - Orry
"Why?" - Jones
"I never liked you or the way you did your job." - Orry
"But you hear me, the day may come when you'll regret throwing me out like this,
and I promise you that." - Jones (I guess he keeps his promises)
"I can't find a way to get away from that tribe." - Jones
"What's that you say Salem?" - Charles
"None of your business boy, you keep your ugly Main nose in your own ale." - Jones
"You insult my family." - Charles
"Your family, is that what you call them? That ain't what they call you." - Jones
"So happens I'm not in love with the Mont Royal branch of the family myself, but I've
talked to some of the slaves about you Mr. Jones, the fact is I defend you. They said
you weren't fit to sleep with pigs, but I said you were!" - Charles (My fave line!)
"But what's love got to do with anything? Everybody says James is going to be real
important someday and a girl can never have to many important men courting her,
now can she?" - Ashton
"You may, and god's feet will guide you Mr. Huntoon, you will need
it." - Orry, about courting Ashton
"Now I'm going to teach you how to shoot and how to win. 72 hours is all we
got." - Orry
"Fear will push you into haste and haste will push you into the grave." - Orry
"That peacock over there is to stupid to be scared." - Orry, about Whitney Smith
"You have shown every attribute of a South Carolinan gentleman today. I'm proud
of you." - Orry, to Charles
"Here's to life." - Orry
"Thanks to you." - Charles
"What about when they get out though? At least you and I could fight on the same
side." - George
"Oh Ashton, I just have to say it, I think he is so handsome." - Brett
"Billy? He'll do, of course along side Charles most anyone would look good." - Ashton
"And 100 proof of trouble, take my word and give her [Ashton] a wide birth, Brett's
the one you want, take another look at her." - Charles
"Never mind pretty girl, he'll [Billy] get enough of her games sooner than you think.
Come on, lets take a walk, you and I." - Charles
"If you don't like Southerners Virgilia, then why in the world did you invite us up
here?" - Ashton
"I didn't want you here, but I wasn't consulted." - Virgilia
"Slave owners are nothing more than whore masters." - Virgilia
"Main and Hazard, that's got a nice ring to it." - George
"Almost as good as Hazard and Main." - Orry
"If you cared about me, you wouldn't be such a damn gentleman." - Ashton
"You [Madeline] can just lie there and rot for all I care." - Justin
"You can see how dangerous he [Justin] is, he'd find me, and kill me." - Madeline
"I want Belvedere to be a link to the underground rail road." - Constance
"It's Orry isn't it, that's what you're thinking about?" - Constance
Episode IV
"Well, I am Virgilia Grady - Hazard - I am Virgilia Hazard." - Virgilia
"I do like you Brett, I do." - Billy
"Damn you" - Ashton
"For knowing what you are?..." - Billy
"I want to be your friend." - Virgilia
"Ain't no white lady in Carolina friend to a man like me." - Grady
"I'm from the North, and we hate slavery." - Virgilia
"I don't believe in never." - Grady
"Since the Hazards have come to visit us, I've all but lost my appetite." - Ashton
"If one of your prisoners escaped, I wish that man all the luck in the world." - Virgilia
"I did help Grady escape Mr. Huntoon....
You see him as a niger! I see him as a man who deserves to be free!" - Virgilia
"We had a beautiful marriage your mother and I, I wanted that for you. I know now
I did you a terrible wrong. I took Orry's letters so you would agree to marry
Justin." - Nicholas Fabray (dying)
"I know, and I forgave you a long time ago for that." - Madeline
"...Your mother's skin was fair, like yours, but Loret's mother, your great grandmother,
was a decress, a slave." - Nicholas
"My husband and I will not prostitute ourselves for a few pieces of silver." - Virgilia
"I don't understand what you see in that boy, when there are so many men
around." - Ashton
"Don't be ridiculous, I couldn't possibly love just one man, just think how disappointed
all the rest would be." - Ashton
"Billy Hazard, you're not going to run away from me again are you?" - Ashton
"As far as I can get." - Billy
"That'll never be far enough sweet Billy." - Ashton
"Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" - Billy to Brett
"You yankee boys are all alike, thinking y'all got something special." - Ashton
"Just like old days isn't it Orry?" - George
"Only this time we don't have to worry about getting caught.....George..." - Orry
"I've missed you old friend. Two years is a long time, and don't you tell me how
busy you've been at the mill. I know what Virgilia did, and Grady did..." - George
"George, I feel that I've let you down today. Now, what Virgilia did was wrong,
but it was not your fault. I should've told you that then, or written." - Orry
"It's important that you're telling me now." - George
"Here's to friendship." - George
"Here's to it." - Orry
"Don't shame our family anymore than you have." - Charles to Ashton
"I am not most people. I am the man who loves you remember?" - Orry to Madeline
"You mean more to me than anything else in the world." - Orry to Madeline
"Rot in here for all I care." - Justin (gee, repetitive much Justin?)
Episode V
"Just because I'm honoring him [James] by marrying into our family doesn't mean I'm
obligated to spend my last days of freedom in his company." - Ashton
"You make marriage sound like a jail cell." - Brett
"You only hate Billy because he wants me now instead of you." - Brett
"You just make sure he marries you......first." - Ashton
"Now there's a way we can get rid of that yankee and have nothing to worry
about if you help me." - Ashton
"What is going on in that devilish mind of yours." - Forbes
"I saved myself for you James." - Ashton (what a load of crap.)
"It'll be wonderful to see George and Constance again." - Brett
"I can feel it, we're not welcome here [the north] anymore." - Brett
"Thank god there's one person [Charles] in both our two families who
knows who he's fighting and why." - George
"Now you don't think it's a bit to Irish do you?" - Constance, about her
Irish green gown
"Well no wonder, I'm the best kept secret in this family." - Virgilia
"You are an evil man [Orry], and evil sees evil in everything." - Virgilia
(in a way isn't she calling herself evil too?)
"It's my life and I should be able to decide what to do." - Brett
"I don't take orders from trash like you [Orry]. Not anymore." - Grady
"Murders! you're all murders! don't you touch my husband, I'll see you rot in
hell first...you think he's dead, he's not dead, he's free!" - Virgilia
"You're talking about a war, between us, and the people that we love." - Brett
"His [Grady's] death will be avenged." - Virgilia
"You're thinking about Orry again aren't ya." - Constance, her famous words.
"Orry will be my enemy. War is killing. Killing your enemies Constance." - George
"I was afraid to tell you, we've had so many disappointments George." - Constance
"But this time it's true?" - George
"We're going to have a baby, in the spring." - Constance
"Lincoln is a coward...we will finish what we began at Harpers Ferry." - Virgilia
"Where's my tonic? Give it to me!" - Madeline (drugged up)
"I'm planning to raise a personal regiment." - Justin
"A house divided will not stand." - Orry (wait, HE didnt REALLY come up with that!)
"Well, I don't want to talk about Billy Hazard, or any Hazard. The entire subject is
distasteful to me and is therefore closed." - Orry
"George Hazard was the only real friend you've ever had and ever since you
quarreled with him, you've been mad at the world. You've shut yourself off, you
drink alone, you never smile..." - Brett to Orry
"Whether I love, or whether I do not love is none of your concern." - Orry
"I pity you Orry, you're afraid to let a women mean anything to you." - Brett
"I have the marriage I need to get where I'm going." - Ashton
"You promised, that you'd help me get even with Brett and Billy Hazard." - Ashton
Episode VI
"I declare, I wish I could go out just like this." - Ashton
"You're thinking about Orry aren't you." - Billy
"I say secession is a symbol of Southern Pride." - Street Person
"To your undying happiness." - George
"Well I guess they've done it." - Orry
"Secession." - George
"You wanna go outside George? and watch the South celebrate it's own funeral?" - Orry
"Damn the Union! and Damn your union" - Ashton [about Brett's wedding]
"What do you think Huntoon. George and I fought for the Union...you people have just torn it apart." - Orry
"And if I were you Sir, I would keep my mouth shit in Charleston. Your Yankee accent is more offensive than ever." - Huntoon to George
"I just pray that he'll be sent to some safer place, even if is far away from me." - Brett about Billy
"I just can't believe it's come to this...suddenly we're on different sides because some politicians say we are. Well, I'm not chosing any side. I'm staying right here." - Charles
"No one calls me a traitor Corporal, dismount!" - Charles
"Go to hell." - Corporal
"And I'll kill the next man who calls me a traitor." - Charles
"I'm just a hell raiser and a horse solider." - Charles
"I'm gonna enjoy putting a bullet between Billy Hazard's eyes." - Huntoon
"Southern girl, marrying Yankee trash." - Justin
"And after that there'll be one less yankee to worry about." - Huntoon
"I'll Kill you [Madeline] for that" - Justin
"Now we'll see you at the flagstop!" - Ashton
"You touch those reins boy and there'll be blood all over this road." - Forbes
"You picked the wrong man for that." - Charles
"Jackasses gave you a short load...Madeline got to Mt Royal and told us how they plotted this whole thing." - Charles
"Cause you thought Billy and Brett would never ger there didn't you Ashton." - Orry
"It was your idea wasn't it? A nice legal way for Forbes to murder Billy..." - Orry to Ashton
"You shut your mouth or I will...you are no longer part of this family." - Orry to Ashton
"Bad apples taking over the barrel." - Charles
"Orry, I'm so ill." - Madeline
"You'll probably feel alot worse before better but I'll be with you all the time." - Orry to Madeline
"I want my wife and you're standing in my way" - Justin
"I've given Madeline sanction here at Mt Royal." - Orry
"Sactionary from her own husband..." - Justin
"You haven't been a husband, you've beaten her, locked her up, drugged her, treated her worse than an animal or a slave and you treat them worse than any man I know." - Orry
"I believe it's time the South learn to compromise also. I intend to be president of all the United States." - Lincoln
"Madam, you are talking to a military genius. Well, I do love his money, and I don't remember extending the emotion to include you." - Bent
"And I have enemies who will be suprised." - Bent
"George is a fool not to make all the money he can from this war." - Isabel (greedy much?)
"No. She [Virgilia] can go to a hotel, or she can to to a hospital...or she can go to HELL!" - Isabel
"But she can not stay here." - Stanley
"This poor creature is her own worst enemy." - Constance about Virgilia
"Oh now she's got the irish gift of prophecy." - Isabel
"So this is what a half million dollars looks like." - Charles
"I want to see him again. It may be the last time I ever will."
"We are now at war." - Solider
"My deepest sympathy is for the South sir." - Orry (damn right! cause he knew they'd lose!)
"I thought I'd show you the best news of all." - Constance, shows Orry Hope
"There's not alot of honor between people these days Orry, You're a crazy fool but you've got more than your share." - George
"Now I know most of you, you're my neighbors, but the 1st man who moves against my friend will be the 1st to die." - George
"Take himyourself, it's not worth getting killed over." - Leader of mob
"God go with you Orry, until we're all together again." - Constance
"I have no tolerance of my enemies even when they come in the shape of a friend." - Virgilia
"Freedom has to be born in blood and fire." - Virgilia