Benedict Cumberbatch: Edmund Talbot

Quotes 

• Edmund Talbot : [screaming]  Pike, will you shut up! Shut up, you despicable little orange toad! You arse, for the vile man! You scabbard the very barrow of the point of creation! You arse cunting wankfest! Mr. Pike, you are a DISGUSTING little man!

  Mr. Pike : That's exactly what she said!

• [last lines] 

  Edmund Talbot : [narrating]  So must end Edmund Talbot's journey to the ends of the earth. But something is missing, is it not?

  [runs down to the pier and finds the beautiful Marion Chumley disembarking from a ship] 

• Edmund Talbot : We are all capable of ideas, but not all of them will endanger the safety of the ship, you fool.

  Lieutenant Benét : I am not a fool!

  Edmund Talbot : I am saying that you are. What is worse, you are a *French* fool.

  Lieutenant Benét : Ah, the English. When one first meets them, one dislikes them. But when on gets to know them, the dislike turns to genuine loathing.

• Edmund Talbot : [narrating as they sight land]  I will not subscribe to the furious rubbish of "my country, right or wrong."Nevertheless, when I search my heart, among all the prejudice of my nature and upbringing, among all the new ideas, acceptance of necessary change, the people, writers, politicians, philosophers, even wild-eyed social philosophers, the deepest note of my heart strings sounds now, as it will to my dying day, England forever!

• Miss Granham : The voyage has been a considerable part of your life, sir. But... do not refine upon its nature. It was not an odyssey. It is no type emblem metaphor of the human condition. It is all rather... was... what it was.

  Edmund Talbot : And what was that, mum?

  Miss Granham : A series of events.