The Lion in Winter Quotes

“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

“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

“I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“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

“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

“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

“In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“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

“Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“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

“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

“I want Poetry and Power and the young men who create it.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“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

“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

“We have each other and for all I know that's what hope is.”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“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

“Dear me, whatever shall we do with mother?”
― James Goldman, The Lion in Winter

“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