Covington Cross (TV Series)
Pilot (1992)
Glenn Quinn: Cedric Grey
Quotes
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Sir Thomas Grey : Friar! Friar!
Friar : My lord?
Sir Thomas Grey : Where's my son?
Friar : Which one?
Sir Thomas Grey : The only one you tutor. You are still tutoring him?
Friar : Yes. Of course.
Sir Thomas Grey : How he is progressing with his studies?
Friar : We're... making progress.
Sir Thomas Grey : Does he have an aptitude for the church?
Friar : He's working on his Latin now.
[Sir Thomas walks into the study and finds his son hiding behind a huge book while cuddling a beautiful servant girl]
Sir Thomas Grey : Latin has changed.
Cedric Grey : Latin isn't working out for me.
Sir Thomas Grey : It seems to be working out quite nicely.
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Sir Thomas Grey : Where's Eleanor?
Cedric Grey : In the solar - but I wouldn't go in there?
Sir Thomas Grey : Not go in there? I'll go wherever I like. Whether anyone realizes it or not, this is still my castle. While I'm still lord of this castle, my God, I will go anywhere I like!
[Sir Thomas opens the door to the solar and is immediately greeted by a crossbow bolt that barely misses his head]
Sir Thomas Grey : You could have killed me!
Eleanor Grey : You could have knocked.
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Cedric Grey : Why can't I be a knight?
Sir Thomas Grey : Because you're going to become a cleric.
Cedric Grey : I wasn't meant for the church.
Sir Thomas Grey : When Almus left, I swore an oath for your mother, Cedric, that since she was losing her eldest son to the Crusades, at least her youngest would be spared the horrors of war. A cleric's blood is not spilled on the battlefield. We have enough knights. Now, leave it.
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William Grey : To be a knight is not what it's always thought to be, brother.
Richard Grey : To be a knight is to be most honored.
William Grey : To be the first son and a knight is to be most honored. To be anything else is to watch the first son get most of the honors.
Eleanor Grey : At least you get to be something. Women get to be nothing!
Richard Grey : Women are not supposed to be anything - they're women.
Eleanor Grey : How can you say that?
Richard Grey : Name me one thing you can do better than me?
Cedric Grey : She rides better than you.
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[Cedric, angry at being left behind, is informed that the coach transporting the awaited French emissary has arrived]
Cedric Grey : [speaking to himself] I'm not sure what would be worse - the friar or the Frenchman.
[a beautiful woman descends from the carriage]
Cedric Grey : The friar. Definitely the friar.
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Genevieve De La Croix : [introducing herself] Genevieve De La Croix.
Cedric Grey : Are you alone? You are alone. You're very alone.
Genevieve De La Croix : Are you feeling well?
Cedric Grey : Most well... very well...
[eyeing the beautiful woman]
Cedric Grey : Well, well.
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Eleanor Grey : What was mother like?
Cedric Grey : Yes, what was she like?
William Grey : Well, she liked to sing.
Richard Grey : Politics bored her, but she loved a good story.
William Grey : Especially comedies.
Richard Grey : I never heard her complain about anything.
Eleanor Grey : Then she wouldn't have liked me.
Richard Grey : She would have liked you more than anyone. It was courage she admired most in people because she thought she had so little herself. You were the woman she wanted to be, Eleanor.
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Eleanor Grey : They tease you because they love you, Cedric.
Cedric Grey : You think so?
Eleanor Grey : No.
Cedric Grey : Good. Because I loosened their saddle straps out of my fondness for them.