The Lion in Winter (1968 film) Quotes

The Lion in Winter (1968 film) is a television show that first aired in 1970 . The Lion in Winter ended its run in 1970.

It features Joseph E. Levine, Jane C. Nusbaum, and Martin Poll as producer, John Barry (composer) in charge of musical score, and Douglas Slocombe as head of cinematography.

The Lion in Winter (1968 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom, and United States. Each episode of The Lion in Winter (1968 film) is 134 minutes long. The Lion in Winter (1968 film) is distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures.

The cast includes: Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor, Peter O'Toole as Henry II, and Timothy Dalton as Philip II.

The Lion in Winter (1968 film) Quotes

Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor

• (Katharine Hepburn) "What would you have me do? Give out? Give up? Give in?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Give me a little peace."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now there's a thought."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Hush dear, mother's fighting."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "I adored you. I still do."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Of all the lies you've told, that is the most terrible."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "I know. That's why I've saved it up until now."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Love me, little lamb, or leave me."

• (Prince John) "A knife. He's got a knife."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "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."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "If you're broken it's because you're fragile."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "How dear of you to let me out of jail."
• (Peter O'Toole) "It's only for the holidays."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "My, what a lovely girl. How could her king have left her?"

• (Katharine Hepburn) "What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"

• (Katharine Hepburn) "If you're broken it's because you're brittle -- I've lost you, and I can't ever have you back."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "I wonder -- do you ever wonder -- if I slept with your father."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Henry's bed is Henry's province. He can people it with sheep for all I care, which on occasion he has done."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Rosamund's been dead for seven years --"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "-- two months and eighteen days. I never liked her much."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You count the days?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "I made the numbers up."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "I love you."
• (Prince Richard) "You love nothing. You're incomplete. The human parts of you are missing. You're as dead as you are deadly."

• (Prince John) "I thought I'd come and gloat a little."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Mother's tired. Come stick pins tomorrow morning; I'll be more responsive."
• (Prince John) "It's no fun goading anyone tonight."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "He had a mind like Aristotle and a form like mortal sin."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Well, that's the way deals are made. We've got him if we want him. He'll sell us all, you know -- but only if he thinks we think he won't."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "You don't dare go."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Say that again at noon, you'll say it to my horse's ass. Lamb, I'll be rid of you by Easter: you can count your reign in days."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "And that's to be the king."
• (Prince Geoffrey) "And I'm to be his Chancellor. Has he told you? John will rule the country, while I run it. That is to say he gets to spend the taxes that I raise."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "How nice for you."
• (Prince Geoffrey) "It's not as nice as being king."
• (Peter O'Toole) "We've made you Duke of Brittany, is that so little?"
• (Prince Geoffrey) "No one ever thinks of crown and mentions Geoff, why is that?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Isn't being chancellor power enough?"
• (Prince Geoffrey) "It's not the power I feel deprived of; it's the mention I miss. There's no affection for me here; you wouldn't think I'd want that, would you?"

• (Katharine Hepburn) "We're jungle creatures, Henry, and the dark is all around us. See them? In the corners, you can see the eyes."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh Henry, we mangled every thing we touch."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Henry?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Hmmm?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "I have a confession."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Yes?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "I don't much like our children."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "You look fit. War agrees with you. I keep informed; I follow all your slaughters from a distance. Do sit down."
• (Prince Richard) "Is this an audience -- a good night hug with kisses -- or an ambush?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Let's hope it's a reunion."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "You're not an assassin."
• (Prince Richard) "Look again."

• (Prince John) "What's wrong? What's happened?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Richard's getting married."
• (Prince John) "Getting married? Now? He's getting married now ?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "I never cease to marvel at the quickness of your mind."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "I'd hang you from the nipples, but you'd shock the children."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "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."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You wouldn't let him do a thing like that."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Let him? I'd push him through the nursery door."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You're not that cruel."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Don't fret. We'll wait until you're dead to do it."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Eleanor, what do you want?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "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."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Out Eleanor -- in Alais. Why?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "A new wife, wife, will bear me sons."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "That is the single thing of which I would have thought you had enough."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "Henry."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Madam."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Did you ever love me?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "No."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Good. That will make this pleasanter."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "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."

• (Katharine Hepburn) "I am locked up with my sons. What mother does not dream of that?"

Peter O'Toole as Henry II

• (Peter O'Toole) "I'm villifying you for God's sake; pay attention."

• (Peter O'Toole) "I'm 50 now. Good God, boy, I'm the oldest man I know. I've got a decade on the pope."

• (Peter O'Toole) "When the king is off his ass, nobody sleeps."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Well, what shall we hang -- the holly, or each other?"

• (Peter O'Toole) "When I bellow, bellow back."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Geoffrey: There's a masterpiece. He isn't flesh: he's a device. He's wheels and gears. And Johnny: Was his latest treason your idea? I've caught him lying, and I've said, 'he's young.' I've found him cheating, and I've said, 'he's just a boy.' I've watched him steal and whore and whip his servants, and he's not a child; he's the man we made him."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Don't share John with me. He's your accomplishment."
• (Peter O'Toole) "And Richard's yours. How could you send him off to deal with Philip?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "I was tired. I was busy. They were friends."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Eleanor, he was the best, and from the cradle on you cradled him. I never had a chance."

• (Peter O'Toole) "What is this? I'm not mouldering. My paint's not peeling off. I'm good for years."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "How many years? Suppose I hold you back for one. I can. It's possible. Suppose your first son dies, ours did. It's possible. Suppose you're daughtered next, we were. That too is possible. How old is daddy then? What kind of spindly, ricket-ridden, milky, wizened, dim-eyed, gammy-handed, limpy line of things will you beget?"

• (Peter O'Toole) "I hope we never die."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "So do I."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Do you think there's any chance of it?"

• (Peter O'Toole) "Who's to say it's monstrous? I'm the King. I call it just. Therefore, I, Henry, by the Grace of God King of the English, Lord of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Count of Anjou, Brittany, Poitou and Normandy, Maine, Gascony, and Aquitaine, do sentence you to death. Done this Christmas Day at Chinon in God's year eleven eighty-three."

• (Prince Geoffrey) "You don't think much of me."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Much? I don't think of you at all."

• (Peter O'Toole) "In my time I've known contessas, milkmaids, courtesans and novices, whores, gypsies, jades, and little boys, but nowhere in God's western world have I found anyone to love but you."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Oh God, but I do love being king."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Well, I'm off."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "To Rome?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "That's where they keep the Pope."

• (Peter O'Toole) "The sky is pocked with stars. What eyes the wise men must have had to see a new one in so many."

• (Peter O'Toole) "How was your crossing? Did the Channel part for you?"
• (Katharine Hepburn) "It went flat when I told it to. I didn't think to ask for more."

• (Peter O'Toole) "My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived. Henry Fitz-Empress, first Plantagenet, a king at twenty-one, the ablest soldier of an able time. He led men well, he cared for justice when he could and ruled, for thirty years, a state as great as Charlemagne's. He married out of love, a woman out of legend. Not in Alexandria, or Rome, or Camelot has there been such a queen. She bore him many children. But no sons. King Henry had no sons. He had three whiskered things but he disowned them."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You're not mine. We're not connected. I deny you. None of you will get my crown, I leave you nothing and I wish you plague. May all your children breach and die."
• (Peter O'Toole) "My Boys are gone."
• (Peter O'Toole) "I've lost my boys."
• (Peter O'Toole) "You dare to damn me, do You? Well, I damn you back."
• (Peter O'Toole) "god**** YOU."
• (Peter O'Toole) "My boys are gone. I've lost my boys. Oh, Jesus, all my boys --"

• (Peter O'Toole) "It's heavy -- Oh Eleanor, you've brought me my tombstone. You spoil me."

• (Peter O'Toole) "What we do in dungeons needs the shades of day. I stole the candles from the chapel. Jesus won't begrudge them and the chaplain works for me."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Come for me."

• (Peter O'Toole) "The day those stout hearts band together is the day that pigs get wings."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "There'll be pork in the treetops come morning."

• (Peter O'Toole) "I want to reach a settlement. I left you with too little earlier,"
• (Timothy Dalton) "Yes, nothing is too little."

• (Peter O'Toole) "I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be alive, king, and fifty all at once."

• (Peter O'Toole) "My finest angle. It's on all the coins."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Now hear me, boy --"
• (Timothy Dalton) "I am a king; I am no man's "boy"."
• (Peter O'Toole) "A king? Because you put your ass on purple cushions?"

• (Peter O'Toole) "The Vexin's mine."
• (Timothy Dalton) "By what authority?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "It's got my troops all over it; that makes it mine."

• (Peter O'Toole) "I have an offer for you, my dear."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "A deal? A deal? I give the richest province on the continent to John for what? You tell me, mastermind, for what?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Your freedom."
• (Katharine Hepburn) "Oh."
• (Peter O'Toole) "Once Johnny gets the Aquitaine, you're free, I'll let you out. Think. On the loose in London, winters in Provence, impromptu trips to visit Richard anywhere he's killing people. All that for a signature."

• (Peter O'Toole) "I found out the way your mind works and the kind of man you are. I know your plans and expectations; you've burbled every bit of strategy you've got. I know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won't, and I've told you exactly nothing. To these aged eyes, boy, that's what winning looks like."

• (Peter O'Toole) "More Brandy wine? They were boiling it in Ireland before the snakes left."

• (Peter O'Toole) "There's no sense asking if the air is good if there's nothing else to breathe."

• (Peter O'Toole) "Where's a priest? Somebody fetch me a priest. YOU. Fetch me a bishop."

Timothy Dalton as Philip II

• (Prince Richard) "You loved me."
• (Timothy Dalton) "Never."

• (Timothy Dalton) "A king like you has policy prepared on everything. well, what's the official line on sodomy? How stands the Crown on boys who do with boys?"
• (Peter O'Toole) "Richard finds his way into so many legends; let's hear yours and see how it compares."
• (Timothy Dalton) "Well, he found me first when I was 15. We were hunting; it was nearly dark; my horse fell; I was thrown. I woke to Richard touching me. He asked me if I loved him: 'Philip, do you love me?' And I told him yes. Do you know why I told him yes? So that one day I could tell you all about it. You cannot imagine what that 'yes' cost. Imagine snuggling to a chancred whore, and bending back your lips into something like a smile saying, 'Yes, I love you, and I find you --"
• (Timothy Dalton) "-- beautiful.' I don't know how I did it."

• (Prince Richard) "You haven't said you loved me."
• (Timothy Dalton) "When the time comes."

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