The Lion in Winter (1968)

Nigel Terry: John

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• John : A knife! He's got a knife!

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little - that's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world.

• 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.

• John : You stink. You're a stinker and you stink.

• John : I thought I'd come and gloat a little.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : Mother's tired. Come stick pins tomorrow morning; I'll be more responsive.

  John : It's no fun goading anyone tonight.

• John : [rushing in]  What's wrong? What's happened?

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : Richard's getting married.

  John : Getting married? Now? He's getting married *now*?

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : I never cease to marvel at the quickness of your mind.

• Eleanor of Aquitaine : Where's Henry?

  Richard : Upstairs with the family whore.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : That's a mean and tawdry way to talk about your fiancee.

  John : My fiancée.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine : Whosever fiancée.

• Eleanor of Aquitaine : I never cease to marvel at the quickness of your mind.

  John : You can't hurt me, you bag of bile.

• John : If I'm supposed to make a fuss and kiss her hairy cheek, I won't.