Kate Hepburn – The Lion in Winter

Great lines said by Kate:

• Eleanor: In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.
  
  
• Eleanor: 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?
  Eleanor: Let's hope it's a reunion.
  
  
• Eleanor: Henry?
  Henry II: Hmmm?
  Eleanor: I have a confession.
  Henry II: Yes?
  Eleanor: I don't much like our children!
  
  
• Eleanor: [to her jewelry] I'd hang you from the nipples, but you'd shock the children.
  
  
• Eleanor: Henry's bed is Henry's province, he can people it with sheep for all I care... which on occasion he has done.
  
  
• Eleanor: How dear of you to let me out of prison.
  Henry II: It's only for the holidays.
  
  
• Eleanor: Henry
  Henry II: Madam
  Eleanor: Did you ever love me?
  Henry II: No
  Eleanor: Good. That will make this pleasanter.
  
  
• Prince John: A knife! He's got a knife!
  Eleanor: 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.