Becket

1964

Thomas a Becket: God rest his soul. King Henry II: He will, He will. He'll be much more use to God than he ever was to me.

Thomas a Becket: Honor is a private matter within; it's an idea, and every man has his own version of it. King Henry II: How gracefully you tell your king to mind his own business.

Empress Matilda: Oh, if I were a man! King Henry II: Thank God, madam, He gave you breasts! An asset from which I derived not the slightest benefit.

King Henry II: Am I the strongest or am I not? Thomas a Becket: You are today, but one must never drive one's enemy to despair; it makes him strong. Gentleness is better politics, it saps virility. A good occupational force must never crush. It must corrupt.

King Henry II: Don't be nervous, Bishop. I'm not asking for absolution. I've something far worse than a sin on my conscience: a mistake.

King Henry II: Let us drink, gentlemen. Let us drink, till we roll under the table in vomit and oblivion.

King Henry II: Do you know how much trouble I went through to make you a noble? Thomas a Becket: Yes, as I recall, you lifted your finger, pointed at me and said, "Thomas Becket, you are noble."

Thomas a Becket: England is a ship. The king is captain of the ship. King Henry II: That's neat. I like that.

King Henry II: Your body, madam, was a desert that duty forced me to wander in alone. But you have never been a wife to me!

King Henry II: He's read books, you know, it's amazing. He's drunk and wenched his way through London but he's thinking all the time.

King Henry II: So what in most people is morality, in you it's just an exercise in... what's the word? Thomas a Becket: Aesthetics. King Henry II: Yes, that's the word. Always "aesthetics."

King Henry II: There. That's the Great Seal of England. Don't lose it; without the seal, there's no more England, and we'll all have to pack up and go back to Normandy.

King Henry II: I'm suddenly very intelligent. It probably comes from making love to that French girl last night.

King Henry II: Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?

King Henry II: Becket is the only intelligent man in my kingdom, and he's against me!

Thomas a Becket: Nobility lies in the man, my prince, not in the towel.

Thomas a Becket: Tonight you can do me the honor of christening my forks. King Henry II: Forks? Thomas a Becket: Yes, from Florence. New little invention. It's for pronging meat and carrying it to the mouth. It saves you dirtying your fingers. King Henry II: But then you dirty the fork. Thomas a Becket: Yes, but it's washable. King Henry II: So are your fingers. I don't see the point.

King Henry II: Here's my royal foot on your royal buttocks!

Empress Matilda: You have an obsession about him that is unhealthy and unnatural!

King Henry II: (isolating one of his brawling sons from the rest) Which one are you? Prince Henry: Henry the Third. King Henry II: NOT YET, SIR!

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