Darkest Hour

"I'm getting the job only because the ship is sinking. It's not a gift, it's revenge."

"(exiting the bathroom naked) Miss? I'm coming out in a state of nature!"

"(on the toilet) Please tell the Privy Seal that I am currently sealed in the privy and I can only deal with one shit at a time."

"Will you stop interrupting me while I am interrupting you?"

"When will the lesson be learned?! When-will-the-lesson-be-learned?! How many more dictators must be wooed, appeased - Good God, given immense privileges! - before we learn?! You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!"

"Nations which go down fighting rise again, and those that surrender tamely are finished."

"Turning once again to the question of invasion, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast, when an absolute guarantee against invasion could have been given to our people. I have, myself full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny. If necessary, for years. If necessary, alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government, every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation. The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. 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. 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 if - which I do not for a moment believe - 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!"

"Those who never change their mind never change anything."

"(to Winston) You are strong because you are imperfect. You are wise because you have doubts. From this uncertainty the wisest words will come."

"Here is a woman who's always tired, for she lives a life where too much is required."

"The deadly danger here is this romantic fantasy of fighting to the end. What is "the end" if not the destruction of all things? There's nothing heroic in going down fighting if it can be avoided. Nothing even remotely patriotic in death or glory if the odds are firmly on the former. Nothing inglorious in trying to shorten a war we are clearly losing."

"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."

"You know what? I feel angry. In this moment I'm aware of feeling—bloody angry."

"You gave me some advice once. Perhaps I can give you some. Go to the people. Let them instruct you. Quite silently, they usually do. But tell them... the truth unvarnished."

"Gary Oldman - Sir Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, afterwards Prime Minister of the United Kingdom"

"Lily James - Elizabeth Layton"

"Kristin Scott Thomas - Clementine Churchill"

"Ben Mendelsohn - George VI of the United Kingdom"

"Ronald Pickup - Neville Chamberlain"

"Stephen Dillane - Viscount Halifax"

"Nicholas Jones - Sir John Simon"

"Samuel West - Anthony Eden"

"David Schofield - Clement Attlee"

"David Strathairn - Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice)"