A Knight's Tale Quotes

A Knight's Tale is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . A Knight's Tale ended in 1970.

It features Todd Black, Brian Helgeland, and Tim Van Rellim as producer, Carter Burwell in charge of musical score, and Richard Greatrex as head of cinematography.

A Knight's Tale is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of A Knight's Tale is 132 minutes long. A Knight's Tale is distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing.

The cast includes: Heath Ledger as William, Alan Tudyk as Wat, Mark Addy as Roland, Christopher Cazenove as John Thatcher, Shannyn Sossamon as Jocelyn, Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Old Bishop, and Leagh Conwell as Young William Thacher.

A Knight's Tale Quotes

Heath Ledger as William

• (Heath Ledger) "I can't explain it. She makes me feel like a poet."
• (Mark Addy) "Well you may feel like a poet, but you sound like an idiot. You don't even know her name."

• (Heath Ledger) "It's not in me to withdraw."
• (Prince Edward) "No. Nor me. Though it happens."

• (Heath Ledger) "It is strange to think, I haven't seen you since a month. I have seen the new moon, but not you. I have seen sunsets and sunrises, but nothing of your beautiful face. The pieces of my broken heart are so small that they could be passed through the eye of a needle. I miss you like the sun misses the flower; like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter. Instead of beauty to direct its light to, the heart hardens like the frozen world your absence has banished me to. I next compete in the city of Paris, I will find it empty and in the winter if you are not there. Hope guides me, that is what gets me through the day and especially the night. The hope that after you're gone from my sight, it will not be the last time that I look upon you."

• (Heath Ledger) "Should we help him?"

• (Chaucer) "There she is, William. The embodiment of love. Your Venus."
• (Heath Ledger) "And how I hate her."

• (Heath Ledger) "I'm Ulrich von Leichtenstein, from Guilderland, and these are my faithful squires."
• (Heath Ledger) "Delves, of Dogington,"
• (Heath Ledger) "and Falhurst, of Crew."
• (Chaucer) "I'm Richard the Lionheart. Pleased to meet you. No, wait a minute, I'm Charlemagne. No, I'm Saint John the Baptist."
• (Heath Ledger) "All right, hold your tongue sir, or lose it."
• (Chaucer) "Now you see that I do believe, Sir Ulrich."

• (Prince Edward) "What a pair we make, huh? Both trying to hide who we are, both unable to do so. Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough. But you also tilt when you should withdraw -- and that is knightly, too."
• (Prince Edward) "Release him."
• (Prince Edward) "He may appear to be of humble origins, but my personal historians have discovered that he is descendent from an ancient royal line."
• (Prince Edward) "This is my word -- and, as such, is beyond contestation."
• (Prince Edward) "Now, if I may repay the kindness you once showed me -- take a knee."
• (Prince Edward) "By the power vested in me by my father, King Edward, and by all the witnesses here, I dub thee Sir William."
• (Prince Edward) "Arise -- Sir William. Can you joust?"
• (Heath Ledger) "What?"
• (Prince Edward) "There's my tournament to finish. Now, are you fit to compete, or shall the forfeit stand?"
• (Heath Ledger) "No, I'm fit."
• (Prince Edward) "I shall have your opponent informed of it. You look for his shield in the lists -- at once."
• (Heath Ledger) "Thank you, my lord."

• (Heath Ledger) "I'll ride in his place."
• (Mark Addy) "What's your name, William? I'm asking you William Thatcher, to answer me with your name? It's not Sir William. It's not Count, or Duke or Earl William. It's certainly not King William."
• (Heath Ledger) "I'm aware of that."
• (Mark Addy) "You have to be of noble birth to compete."
• (Heath Ledger) "A detail. The landscape is food. Do you want to eat or don't you?"
• (Mark Addy) "If the nobles find out who you are there'll be the devil to pay."
• (Heath Ledger) "Then pray that they don't."

• (Heath Ledger) "I will not lose."
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Then you do not love me."

• (Chaucer) "Are you mad? You knowingly endanger a member of the royal family?"
• (Heath Ledger) "He knowingly endangers himself."

• (Heath Ledger) "It's just as well, they told me I was daft for even asking."
• (Kate) "Who?"
• (Heath Ledger) "The other armourers."
• (Kate) "Did they say I couldn't do it because I'm a woman?"
• (Heath Ledger) "No, they said you were great with horseshoes, but s***e with armour. The fact that you were a woman wasn't even mentioned."

• (Peter The Pardoner of Rouen) "He assured us that you, his liege, would pay us."
• (Heath Ledger) "And you are?"
• (Peter The Pardoner of Rouen) "Peter. A humble Pardoner and purveyor of religious relics."

• (Heath Ledger) "You favour cathedrals."
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "I come for confession. And the glass -- a riot of color in a dreary, grey world."

• (Heath Ledger) "Where will we live? In my hovel? With the pigs inside during the winter so they won't freeze?"
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Yes, William. With the pigs."

• (Adhemar) "And you are?"
• (Heath Ledger) "Well, I am, um."
• (Adhemar) "You've forgotten, or your name is Sir Um?"
• (Heath Ledger) "Ulrich von Lichtenstein from Gelderland."
• (Adhemar) "Well, I'd forget as well, what a mouthful."

• (Heath Ledger) "For that I say my rosary to her and no-one else."
• (Alan Tudyk) "Will, that's blasphemy."

• (Heath Ledger) "Love has given me wings so I must fly."

• (Heath Ledger) "If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever."

• (Heath Ledger) "I've waited my whole life for this moment."
• (Alan Tudyk) "You've waited your whole life for Sir Ector to s***e himself to death?"

• (Adhemar) "Your armor, sir."
• (Heath Ledger) "What about it?"
• (Adhemar) "How stylish of you to joust in an antique. You'll start a new fashion if you win. My grandfather will be able to wear his in public again, and a shield, how quaint."
• (Adhemar) "Some of these poor country knights, little better then peasants."

• (Heath Ledger) "Leave, Roland. Let them have me."
• (Mark Addy) "God love you, William. So do I."

• (Chaucer) "We regret to inform your lady that my lord will not be attending --"
• (Heath Ledger) "Herald, do not answer questions you do not know the answer to."
• (Chaucer) "Absolutely, my lord."

• (Heath Ledger) "Where will we live? In my hovel? With the pigs inside during the winter so they won't freeze?"
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Yes, William. With the pigs -- The poor can marry for love --"
• (Heath Ledger) "Oh Jocelyn, you speak of what you do not know --"
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "William I beg you. Please, run -- do it for love --"

• (Heath Ledger) "Father, I am afraid, I won't know the way back home."
• (Christopher Cazenove) "Don't be foolish, William, you just follow your feet."

• (Heath Ledger) "Oi sir, what are you doing?"
• (Chaucer) "Uh -- trudging. You know, trudging?"
• (Chaucer) "To trudge: the slow, weary, depressing yet determined walk of a man who has nothing left in life except the impulse to simply soldier on."
• (Heath Ledger) "Uhhh -- were you robbed?"
• (Chaucer) "Funny really, yes, but at the same time a huge resounding no. It's more of an -- involuntary vow of poverty -- really."

• (Heath Ledger) "Your name lady, I still need to hear it."
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Sir hunter, you persist."
• (Heath Ledger) "Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces."

• (Chaucer) "Look, I have a gambling problem. I can't help myself. And these people will; quite literally; take off clothes of your back."
• (Heath Ledger) "What are you expecting us to do about it?"
• (Peter The Pardoner of Rouen) "He assured us that you, his liege, would pay us."
• (Heath Ledger) "And who are you?"
• (Peter The Pardoner of Rouen) "Peter, a humble pardoner and purveyor of religious relics."
• (Heath Ledger) "How much does he owe you?"
• (Simon The Summoner of Rouen) "Ten gold florins."
• (Heath Ledger) "What would you do to him, if I was to refuse?"
• (Simon The Summoner of Rouen) "We, on behalf of the Lord God, would take him of his flesh, so that he may understand that gambling is a sin."

• (Heath Ledger) "Can you keep a secret?"
• (Heath Ledger) "I was born in Cheapside, in that house over there."
• (Lone Girl in Cheapside) "Really? I live just there."
• (Heath Ledger) "Wait, how old are you?"
• (Lone Girl in Cheapside) "Nine and one half, sir."
• (Heath Ledger) "Nine and one half. I wonder, can you remember a man, although probably died just before you were born. He was as tall as a knight, his name was John Thatcher."
• (Lone Girl in Cheapside) "Well of course I remember him."
• (Heath Ledger) "You do?"
• (Lone Girl in Cheapside) "Yeah, he lives there still."
• (Lone Girl in Cheapside) "Sometimes you can see him looking from his window, though no one knows why."
• (Heath Ledger) "What do you mean?"
• (Lone Girl in Cheapside) "He's blind, sir."

Alan Tudyk as Wat

• (Alan Tudyk) "We're English, Geoff. We know who he is."

• (Alan Tudyk) "You have been weighed."
• (Mark Addy) "You have been measured."
• (Kate) "And you have absolutely --"
• (Chaucer) "Been found wanting."
• (Heath Ledger) "Welcome to New World. God save you, if it is right that He should do so."

• (Alan Tudyk) "I don't understand women."
• (Chaucer) "Nor do I. But they understand us. Well, maybe not you."

• (Alan Tudyk) "What do you mean, dead?"
• (Mark Addy) "The spark of his life is smothered in s***e. His spirit is gone but his stench remains. Does that answer your question?"

• (Alan Tudyk) "We're the sons of peasants. Glory, and riches, and stars are beyond our grasps. But a full stomach, that dream can come true."

• (Alan Tudyk) "I miss you like the sun misses the flower. Like the sun misses the flower in the depths of winter. Instead of beauty to direct its light to the heart hardens like the frozen world your absence has banished me to."

• (Alan Tudyk) "Uh, betray us, and I will fong you, until your insides are out, your outsides are in, your entrails will become your extrails I will w-rip -- all the p -- ung. Pain, lots of pain."

• (Alan Tudyk) "He's blond, he's pissed, he'll see you in the lists, Lichtenstein. Lichtenstein. He's blond, he's tanned, he comes from Gelderland, he comes from Gelderland. Gelderland, Gelderland, Gelderland -- Gelderland, Gelderland, Gelderland --"

• (Alan Tudyk) "All right, I'm about this fonging close mate. I swear to God, Quaisimodo. I oughta --"

Mark Addy as Roland

• (Chaucer) "And one and two and three and four and your hands should be light like a birdie on a branch. And one and two and three and four and Wat doesn't lead he follows like a girl."
• (Chaucer) "And one and two and twirlie twirlie twirlie. And one and two and you're still getting it wrong. And one and two and three and four you can hit me all day cause you punch like a -- what?"
• (Mark Addy) "A girl."

• (French Squire) "An Englishman will not win this French tournament. English legs are unsteady on French soil."
• (French Squire) "And because French wine is too much for English bellies."
• (French Squire) "And most importantly, because the Pope himself is French."
• (Mark Addy) "Well, the Pope may be French, but Jesus is bloody English. You're on."

• (Mark Addy) "God love you, William."
• (Heath Ledger) "I know, I know. 'Cause no one else will."

• (Chaucer) "Yes, behold my lord Ulrich, the rock, the hard place, like a wind from Guilderland he sweeps by blown far from his homeland in search of glory and honor, we walk -- in the garden of his turbulence."
• (Mark Addy) "Yeah."
• (Unnamed) "Yeahhhhh."

• (Mark Addy) "Well, that was different."
• (Chaucer) "Well, it's time we celebrate our differences."
• (Mark Addy) "Just maybe not in public."

• (Mark Addy) "Well, Master Nude, having failed the test, have you any more to say?"

• (Mark Addy) "What are you doing?"
• (Heath Ledger) "Losing."
• (Mark Addy) "I don't understand."
• (Heath Ledger) "Neither do I."

• (Kate) "It is romantic though."
• (Mark Addy) "Are you a woman or a blacksmith?"
• (Kate) "Sometimes I'm both."

Shannyn Sossamon as Jocelyn

• (Adhemar) "Why didn't Ulrich finish him?"
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "He shows mercy."
• (Adhemar) "Then he shows his weakness; that is all mercy is."

• (Shannyn Sossamon) "I demand poetry, and when I want it, and I want it now."
• (Heath Ledger) "Your breasts -- they're beneath your throat."

• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Even the peasants can marry for love."

• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Sir Ulrick. What are you wearing to the ball tonight?"
• (Heath Ledger) "Er -- nothing --"
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Well, we shall cause a sensation, for I'll dress to match."
• (Heath Ledger) "Don't you ever get tired of putting on clothes?"
• (Chaucer) "I believe she was talking about taking them off, sir."
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "A flower is only as good as its petals. Don't you think?"
• (Heath Ledger) "A flower is good for nothing. You can't eat a flower, a flower can't keep you warm --"
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "And a rose never knocked a man off a horse either, did it?"
• (Heath Ledger) "You're just a silly girl aren't you."
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Better a silly girl with a flower, than a silly boy with a horse and a stick --"
• (Alan Tudyk) "It's called a lance. Heellooo?"

• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Damn your pride, William. It is you, and only you, that will not see you run."
• (Heath Ledger) "My pride is the only thing that they can't take from me."
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "They can take it away from you; they can, and they will. Oh, they will. But love they cannot take."

• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Do not shush me, and spare him. Now be gone. Go."

• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Better a silly girl with a flower than a silly boy with a horse and a stick."
• (Alan Tudyk) "It's called a lance. Hello?"

• (Shannyn Sossamon) "I love you. There is nothing else to do. Run and I will run with you."

Christopher Cazenove as John Thatcher

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Old Bishop

• (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) "Ladies. Does this not shock you?"
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "I only laugh to keep from weeping."
• (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) "I know, child. Pray that the years come quickly for you, taking your beauty so that you may better serve Him."
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "I do, every day."
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "God, why did you curse me with this face?"
• (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) "God has a plan we know not."
• (Shannyn Sossamon) "Oh, that is lovely --"

• (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) "You desecrate the House of God."

Leagh Conwell as Young William Thacher

• (Leagh Conwell) "Someday, I'll be a knight."

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