Actually, Prince John was played by Nigel Terry of “Excalibur” fame. You are right in that the exchange you quote is an absolute classic.
Another great moment:
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King Henry (Peter O’ Toole): “The day those stout hearts band together is the day that pigs get wings!”
Queen Eleanor (Katherine Hepburn): “There’ll be pork in the treetops come morning!”
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One more:
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Queen Eleanor: “You have a gift…for hating.”
Prince Geoffrey: “You’re the expert—you should know.”
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The entire movie is made up of one liners and snappy comebacks, it seems. Greatest dialogue I’ve ever heard!
Geenius: My favorite quote from Braveheart is:
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“Bring me Wallace. Alive if possible. Dead…just as good!”
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So cynically evil!
From the classics of the movie theatre to Cable Schlock; I also enjoyed the line from the made for cable movie “Weapons of Mass Distraction”:
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Lionel Powers (Gabriel Byrne): “Apparently, HIS rotten spying bastards are a whole lot better than MY rotten spying bastards!”
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Finally, my favorite dialogue from Shakespeare (thinking of all the LOVELY single female dopers when I utter this):
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“A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a
black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow
bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax
hollow: but a good heart…is the sun and the
moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it
shines bright and never changes, but keeps his
course truly. If thou would have such a one, take me”
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Henry V, Act V, Scene 2
How about this one:
Queen Elinor(Kate Hepburn) What do you expect me to do, give in?
King Henry (Peter O’Toole) Give in, give out. How about a little peace?
Queen - A little peace? Why so modest, Henry? How about eternal peace, now there’s a thought.
Wahhhhhh, I really want to watch this movie and I can’t find it anywhere.
My entry in the Latin competition: Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum – “Whatever is done right, however humble, is noble.”
And my entry from Shakespeare: “The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction!” Shylock, The Merchant of Venice.
He was a man, take him all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. - Hamlet
And from Much Ado. Don Pedro is flirting verbally with Beatrice, and he says something along the lines of “for when you were born, no doubt it was a happy hour.” Beatrice comes back with:
“No, my lord, for sure my mother cried. But, there was a star danced. And under that was I born.” That line feels like me to a T.
Old lady: Sir, you are drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk drunk!
Churhill: Madam, You are ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly ugly, and in the morning * I* will be sober!
Thanks, PatrickM. To paraphrase Cecil, if ignorance were cornflakes, I’d be General Mills!
Anyway, two more from Shakespeare:
“This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii
“If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
if you poison us, do we not die?
and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge?”
Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene i, and used to perfection by Christopher Plummer in Star Trek VI (or was it VII?)
Finally, lest I get kicked off the boards, one quote from the single author GREATER THAN SHAKESPEARE!
“Eat shit and die, you loser. Sorry, wrong forum, but it IS my message board.” – Cecil Adams
Are we voting on the best Cecil quote? My fave is, “The act of observing disturbs the observed.” I’ve used that in many an article on the wretched effects of polling on political campaigns.
“But I don’t want to go among the mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat: “We’re all mad here…”
Lewis Carroll
“Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that’s hard for a puritan to understand.”
Gunther Grass
“I know I’m famous because a man on the bus just gave me some mashed
potatoes FOR FREE!”
From “Shadowlands”, a biographical movie about the famous Christian apologist and author, C.S. Lewis (portrayed, ironically enough, by Anthony “Hannibal Lechter” Hopkins), an inexact quote (spoken to an English “wit” who thinks he just made a remark that flew over the American divorcee’s head):
I love the mental image that phrase conjures up – of course, I learned that lesson the hard way!
