The Charge of the Light Brigade - A Call to Arms in Battle
Lord Cardigan: [calling out]
Colonel Douglas, I shall expect your very best support!
Colonel Douglas:
You shall have it, my lord!
Lord Cardigan:
Mind, Douglas, your best support! Draw...swords!.
Lord Cardigan: [to himself; Aloud]
Well, here goes the last of the Brudenells. The Brigade will advance! Trumpeter, walk...march!
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Conflict Over Command in the Light Brigade
Lord Cardigan: [[w:Horse Guards (building)|Horse Guards]
I cam to be offered a command, not serve under that fool Lucan! I knew, the moment I saw his biscuit face sopping up wet around the ] he'd be here, starting his wheedling!
Lord Raglan:
I am sure that after a little while, Lord Cardigan, you can be persuaded that such an arrangement can be made to work. After all, you will have the Light Brigade. Dash and fire, eh?
General Airey:
Yes, Cardigan. You'll have the Light Brigade. Dash and fire, it is!
Cardigan: [slightly mollified]
Lucan could not make himself fit to command a tent. Command an escort. Not fit to command a troop of knackered tailors on stubbed donkeys!
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Request for Intelligence on Captain Nolan
Lord Cardigan:
Sarn't Major.
TSM Corbett:
Sir.
Cardigan:
I want a report, a report of any conversation Captain Nolan has with other officers. You are to take note of whatever he might say and bring the information to me.
TSM Corbett: [unable to believe what he has been told]
I shall spy, my lord?
Cardigan:
You shall.
TSM Corbett: [[w:Beer|pongelow; resolutely]
My lord-- My lord, to be asked to take up the spy-- I am much distressed to be asked such a thing, my lord. After twenty years of coming up from private trooper...keeping off the ]...not a drop since corporal. I shall inform Captain Nolan. I-- I can hardly do other.
Cardigan: [impassive]
Sarn't Major, it is better that you take a ball and put it in your own brain. You are finished, now, as if you had not ever been made. What a waste.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Disagreement Over Beer and Color
Squire de Burgh: [noticing, to Cardigan]
Couleur de noir.
Lord Cardigan:
You are drinking beer, sir, porter beer!
Nolan:
No, my lord.
Cardigan:
Yes!
Nolan:
No.
Cardigan:
See it!
Nolan:
No, my lord.
Cardigan:
Don't you "no" me! That is a black bottle.
Nolan:
I assure you, my lord--
Cardigan:
That is a black bottle and you are drinking porter from it!
Captain Featherstonehaugh: [braying]
Champagne only!
Russell:
In point of fact, I asked Captain Nolan if--
Featherstonehaugh:
You knew that!
Nolan: [rising]
I am not aware--
Cardigan: [rising]
I am aware you are drinking porter at my table!
Featherstonehaugh: [rising]
Sit down, Captain Nolan!
Nolan: [not moving]
Sit down, Featherstonehaugh.
Featherstonehaugh:
What His Lordship said was that champagne only was to be dwunk in the mess tonight. What he said---
Nolan:
It is not porter, it is Moselle, my lord.
Featherstonehaugh:
Apologize!
Nolan: [still endeavouring to keep his temper]
If I am in error--
Cardigan: [Nolan turns abruptly and starts walking out of the room]
Error? Don't quibble with me, sir! Beer! I will not have beer drunk in my mess! Come back, Nolan! Nolan, you will not leave the mess! I am not finished with you!!
Cardigan: [crimson with rage]
Dog! Devil upstart! Impertinent Indian dog-devil!
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Confusion and Orders in Military Command
Riding-master Mogg: [to Nolan; to Nolan's Indian servant]
It's like a foreign language to them! They don't know hany direction, back or front. They'll never find their front when there hisn't a black face to it. I halways tells them they'll know their front from the many black nigger faces waving knives at em!
Lord Cardigan: [noticing Codrington's unusual meal; [w:Constipation|costive]
Are you ], young man?
Codrington: [holding up a folded note]
I have your orders, my lord, to be here and eat lettuce. I am eating lettuce, I have eaten lettuce.
Cardigan:
What is it?
Featherstonehaugh: [trying not to laugh]
What it tells Cornet Codrington, my lord, is that, as youngest officer, you will expect him to eat as a wabbit does, only lettuce! And it's signed by you, my lord!
Cardigan: [hugely enjoying the prank]
Green boy! Such a green boy! You have been drawn! Not my order you should eat lettuce, though perhaps it will put sap in your pizzle!
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - A Comedic Take on Eccentric Behavior
Lord Cardigan: [to Squire de Burgh, on observing the ladies]
All this swish and tit gets my sniffing nose up! I shall have to fetch it off, tonight, Squire, had me Cherrybums out today, always makes me randified!
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The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord Cardigan's Unyielding Command and Pride
Lord Cardigan: [voiceover; [w:11th Hussars|Cherrybums]
I do not propose to recount my life in any detail, what is what. No damn business of anyone, what is what. I am Lord Cardigan, that is what! Them ], you see em tight, my Cherrybums, I keep em tight. Ten thousand a year out of me own pocket I spend to clothe em. A master cutler sharps their swords, and I keep em tight-stitched, cut to a shadow. Good! If they can't fornicate, they can't fight, and if they don’t fight hard, I'll flog their backs raw, for all their fine looks!
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