“I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.”

“I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time. ”

“Nothing in life has any business being perfect.”

“Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?”

“John: "Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!"Richard: "Let's strike a flint and see.”

“Geoffrey: Why, you chivalric fool—as if the way one fell down mattered.Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.”

“You never loved anyone who loved you back.”