Henry II: 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 (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: It's heavy... Oh Eleanor, you've brought me my tombstone! You spoil me!


--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: More Brandy wine? They were boiling it in Ireland before the snakes left!


--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: My finest angle. It's on all the coins.


--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: 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
Henry II: [to his sons] 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!
Henry II: [storms out the corridor, turns and looks back] My Boys are gone
Henry II: [he starts unsteadily down the corridor] I've lost my boys
Henry II: [he stops, glares towards the Deity] You dare to damn me, do You? Well, I damn you back
Henry II: [like a biblical figure, shaking his fist to the sky] GODDAMN YOU!
Henry II: [moving blindly down the corridor again] My boys are gone. I've lost my boys. Oh, Jesus, all my boys...
[collapses, weeping on the stairs]


--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: Now see here, boy...
Philip II: I am a king - I am no man's "boy"!
Henry II: A king? Because you put your ass on purple cushions?


--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: Oh God, but I do love being king!


--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: 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 (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: The Vexin's mine.
Philip II: By what authority?
Henry II: It's got my troops all over it; that makes it mine.


--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter

Henry II: There's no sense asking if the air is good if there's nothing else to breathe.


--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter