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1 " I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled. "
― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter
2 " Nothing in life has any business being perfect. "
― James Goldman
3 " I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family. "
4 " I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact. "
5 " He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on the spot. "
6 " Give me a little peace.A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought. "
7 " Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool—as if the way one fell down mattered.Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters. "
8 " I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time. "
9 " In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible. "
10 " John: "Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!"Richard: "Let's strike a flint and see. "
11 " Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs? "
12 " Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! "
13 " I want Poetry and Power and the young men who create it. "
14 " I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once. "
15 " We have each other and for all I know that's what hope is. "
16 " You love nothing. You are incomplete. The human parts of you are missing. You're as dead as you are deadly. "
17 " You never loved anyone who loved you back. "
― James Goldman , They Might be Giants
18 " Henry: I am sorry you're not fonder of me, lad. Your father always said, "Be fond of stronger men."Philip: No wonder he loved everyone. "
19 " Alais: You saved them. You maneuvered it.Eleanor: Did I?Alais: They're free because of you. They'll kill him one day; you know thatEleanor: The next time or the nextAlais: You always win, Maman.Eleanor: Except the prize. "
20 " Dear me, whatever shall we do with mother? "
