Darkest Hour (2017)

Stephen Dillane: Viscount Halifax

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• [last lines] 

  Winston Churchill : Those who never change their mind never change anything.

  Legislator : What just happened?

  Viscount Halifax : He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

• Viscount Halifax : 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.

• Viscount Halifax : I will not stand by and watch another generation of young men die at the bloody altar of your hubris!

  Winston Churchill : No, you would have us die as lambs!

  Viscount Halifax : Was Gallipoli not enough for you?

  Winston Churchill : HOW DARE YOU! Our troops were chewing barbed wire in Flanders and I saw it! Opening a second front, outflanking the Turks was a serious military idea and it could have damn well worked if the Admirals and the First Sea Lord hadn't dithered away the element of surprise!