Henry II:
We're in the cellar and you're going back to prison and my life is wasted and we've lost each other... and you're smiling.
Eleanor: It's the way I register despair. There's everything in life but hope.
Henry II: We're both alive... and for all I know that's what hope is.
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
Eleanor: It's the way I register despair. There's everything in life but hope.
Henry II: We're both alive... and for all I know that's what hope is.
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
Henry II:
What shall we hang first? The holly or each other?
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
Henry II:
When the king is off his ass, nobody sleeps!
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
Henry II:
Where's a priest? Somebody fetch me a priest! YOU! Fetch me a bishop!
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
Henry II:
Who's to say it's monstrous? I'm the King. I call it just. Therefore, I, Henry, by the Grace of God King of the English, Lord of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Count of Anjou, Brittany, Poitou and Normandy, Maine, Gascony, and Acquitaine, do sentence you to death. Done this Christmas Day in Chinon in God's year eleven eighty-three.
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
--Peter O'Toole (as Henry II) in The Lion in Winter
King Henry II:
[laughing in both amusement and anger] It's funny! It's too funny! Becket is the only intelligent man in my kingdom, and he's against me!
--Peter O'Toole (as King Henry II) in Becket
--Peter O'Toole (as King Henry II) in Becket
King Henry II:
[plotting Becket's arrest] Oh, Thomas!
Bishop Folliot: You love him, don't you? You still love him! That imposter - that Saxon guttersnipe, that mitred hog!
King Henry II: Hold your tongue, priest! All I confided to you was my hate, not my love. For England's sake you'll help me get rid of him. But don't ever insult him to my face!
--Peter O'Toole (as King Henry II) in Becket
Bishop Folliot: You love him, don't you? You still love him! That imposter - that Saxon guttersnipe, that mitred hog!
King Henry II: Hold your tongue, priest! All I confided to you was my hate, not my love. For England's sake you'll help me get rid of him. But don't ever insult him to my face!
--Peter O'Toole (as King Henry II) in Becket
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.
--Peter O'Toole (as King Henry II) in Becket
--Peter O'Toole (as King Henry II) in Becket
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.
--Peter O'Toole (as King Henry II) in Becket
--Peter O'Toole (as King Henry II) in Becket
