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The Lion in Winter QUOTES

The Lion in Winter QUOTES

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 " 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. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

3 " I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

4 " 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. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

5 " Give me a little peace.
A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

6 " Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool—as if the way one fell down mattered.

Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

7 " 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. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

8 " In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

9 " 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. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

10 " Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs? "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

11 " Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

12 " I want Poetry and Power and the young men who create it. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

13 " I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

14 " We have each other and for all I know that's what hope is. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

15 " You love nothing. You are incomplete. The human parts of you are missing. You're as dead as you are deadly. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

16 " 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. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

17 " 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 that
Eleanor: The next time or the next
Alais: You always win, Maman.
Eleanor: Except the prize. "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter

18 " Dear me, whatever shall we do with mother? "

― James Goldman , The Lion in Winter