a meme of my own

[winterbadger]

Not that I imagine it will spread very far...

Inspired by reabhecc's meme, and a postcard of Chinon from redactrice and shy_kat, who I miss dreadfully, my own quote meme.

"When you read this, post your favourite exchange from 'The Lion in Winter'."

I don't imagine many people have one, so I'll indulge in a couple of my own.

King Henry on force majeure

Henry: The Vexin's mine.

Philip: By what authority?

Henry: It's got my troops all over it; that makes it mine.

Richard on courage

Richard: He'll get no satisfaction out of me. He isn't going to see me beg.

Geoffrey: You chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered.

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

Geoffrey on loyalty

Geoffrey: I was to be his chancellor. Ask him why.

Henry: I've heard enough.

Geoffrey: For moving John to treason.

Henry: I don't doubt he offered, I don't doubt you tried, and I don't doubt John loves me.

Geoffrey: [pulls aside curtain to reveal John, hiding] Like a glutton loves his lunch.

John: You turd.

John on sympathy

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.

Eleanor on posterity

Eleanor: And when you die, which is regrettable but necessary, what will happen to frail Alais and her pruny prince? You can't think Richard's going to wait for your grotesque to grow.

Henry: You wouldn't let him do a thing like that.

Eleanor: Let him? I'd push him through the nursery door. [pronounced, by the divine Kate Hepburn, as "nuh-sree dough-ah"]

Henry: You're not that cruel.

Eleanor: Don't fret. We'll wait until you're dead to do it.

Henry: Eleanor, what do you want?

Eleanor: Just what you want, a king for a son. You can make more, I can't. You think I want to disappear? One son is all I've got, and you can blot him out and call *me* cruel? For these ten years you've lived with everything I've lost, and loved another woman through it all, and *I* am cruel? I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice!

Comments

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm glad you got the postcard.

This line has been in my head ever since I saw the starting point for the second Crusade, the one Louis and Eleanor went on (quoting from memory here, so not necessarily perfect):

Eleanor: . . . I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Jerusalem. I damn near died of sunstroke, but the troops were dazzled.

[winterbadger]

Very good!

"I even made poor Louis take me on crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as amazons and rode bare-breasted half way to Damascus. Louis had a seizure, and I damn near died of windburn, but the troops were dazzled."

It's a wonderful quote, her the look she gives her companion (I forget who she's talking to), just where she says "troops", is classic. :-)

The postcard was great, even though it made me miss you both. :-) The picture looks just like where they filmed the movie (which just goes to show how clever the location scouts were, since most of it it was actually shot in Bouches du Rhone, on the south coast, including the river bits where E. arrives and leaves).

[snolan.livejournal.com]

I second the excellent quote mentioned above:
"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."

Yet my favorite is from Prince Geoffrey (does it count if the exchange is with himself?):
"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. "

[winterbadger]

That *is* a good one, isn't it?

I also like Eleanor's speech in the cellar, that starts with "Of course he's got a knife!" Would that the Bush family had watched LiW a little more often... W is definitely John...