The Divine Lady (1928)

Corinne Griffith: Emma Hart

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• Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : We never know what destiny holds in store for us, Captain Nelson.

• Emma Hart : This is the end of your fine plot - I'm not one to be passed from hand to hand! I'm done with fine gentlemen!

• Horatio Nelson : [referring to his lost arm and eye]  There's not much left of me. I'm as battered and scarred as my ship.

  Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : I think you both the most noble sights my eyes have had the honor to look upon.

• Emma Hart : Oh, sir, I know I'm vulgar, but I could learn from an elegant gentleman like you - so aristocratic - so kind - so handsome. I'll work my fingers to the bone, if only you'll let me stay!

• Emma Hart : Greville, aren't you going with me?

  Honorable Charles Greville : Your vulgar display is unforgivable - I'll return later with my uncle.

• Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : [singing]  O ye'll tak' the high road, and I'll tak' the low road, And he'll be in Scotland before me, Where me and my true love will never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. For ye'll tak' the high road, and I'll tak' the low road, And he'll be in Scotland before me, Where me and my true love...

• Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : So you're the impatient young Captain who refused to see the Ambassadress.

• Horatio Nelson : I must sail for Gibraltar on the flood tide - I have failed England.

  Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : You have never failed England - you will not fail her now!

• Horatio Nelson : Emma!

  Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : Love is not for us, Nelson! You belong to England - to your wife - and I...

  Horatio Nelson : Whatever happens, I'm thankful for this moment between us! The sound of your voice - the touch of your fingers - will always be my courage and inspiration!

• Horatio Nelson : Will you sing for me - one last song?

  Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : [singing]  O ye'll tak' the high road, and I'll tak' the low road, And he'll be in Scotland before me, Where me and my true love will never meet again...

• Honorable Charles Greville : I scarcely thought I should ever greet Emma of Fadington Green - as the famous Lady Hamilton!

  Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : There were many things you didn't think, Greville.

• Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : I cannot let you sacrifice yourself for me!

• Horatio Nelson : I have given much to England - all I ask of her is you.

  Lady Emma Hart Hamilton : I am the one thing England will never let you have.