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WHich is your FAVORITE line?

posted 19 years ago by irot13
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Every sentence of this masterpiece is either wity, funny, sarcasitic, poetic, dramatic, or just plane awesome. Anyway - their all top notch! Thank god they got actors worthy of them! Post your favorites. This might help: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063227/quotes

My favorite are:

Prince Geoffrey: I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it.
[smiles]
We're a knowledgeable family.

[Upon seeing his wife after she arrives for Christmas Court]
Henry II: HA! What shall we hang... the holly, or each other?

Eleanor: In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

[first lines]
Henry II: Come for me!

[–] user-559-376128 8 years ago

My favorite line :
I could peel you like a pear a god himself would call it justice!!

Not only the line, but the delivery.... so delightfully venomous.

[–] Alerra (244) 3 years ago

There are so many. I do love Geoffrey's line about them being a knowledgeable family. And this particular exchange between Henry and Alais:
Henry: We're off to Rome to see the pope.
Alais: He's excommunicated you again?

But there's also this rather serious scene where Eleanor is talking to Richard about just how much her love for him has cost her:
Eleanor: In three years time, I was his queen, and he was king of England. Done at twenty-one...Five years your junior, general.
Richard: I can count.
Eleanor: There was no Thomas Beckett then, or Rosamund...no rivals. Only me. And then young Henry came, and you, and all the other blossoms of my garden. Yes. Had I been sterile, Darling, I'd be happier today.
Richard: Is that designed to hurt me?
Eleanor: What a waste. I've fought with Henry over who comes next, whose dawn it is, and which son gets the sunset, and we'll never live to see it. Look at you. I've loved you more than Henry, and it's cost me everything.