‘THE LION IN WINTER ’ [1968] SENTENCE STARTERS.
not only is this my favouite movie of all time, but it has some of the sickest burns you’ll ever witness. the play – which you can read online – is a tad better but most of the dialogue in the film is word for word so it’s basically just as good. also, a fuck ton of movies and shows and books have stolen used these lines. props!
“ i hope we never die. ”
“ i’ve plotted and schemed all my life. ”
“ i have a confession. ”
“ i don’t much like our children. ”
“ i adored you. i still do. ”
“ of all the lies you’ve told, that is the most terrible. ”
“ fight me and you’ll lose. ”
“ i’m finished with you. you and i are finished. ”
“ did you ever love me? “
“ i can’t be your mistress if i’m married to your son. ”
“ there’s everything in life but hope. ”
“ you will have what daddy gives you. ”
“ i leave you nothing. ”
“ we’ve lost each other… and you’re smiling. ”
“ ’what if’ is a game for scholars. ”
“ i found out the way your mind works. ”
“ we mangle everything we touch. ”
“ what family doesn’t have its ups and downs? ”
“ you don’t think of me much, do you? ”
“ i don’t think of you at all. ”
“ i’m vilifying you for god’s sake - pay attention! ”
“ well, that’s the way deals are made. ”
“ do you ever wonder… if i slept with your father? ”
“ i’ve lost you, and i can’t ever have you back. ”
“ if you’re a prince, there’s hope for every ape in africa. ”
“ you haven’t said you loved me. ”
“ he had a mind like aristotle and a form like mortal sin. ”
“ i want poetry and power and the young men who create it. ”
“ i could tangle spiders in the webs you weave. “
“ i haven’t got a thing to lose - that makes me dangerous. ”
“ it’s no fun goading anyone tonight. ”
“ he’ll sell us all, you know… but only if he thinks we think he won’t. ”
“ he isn’t flesh: he’s a device. he’s wheels and gears. ”
“ if you’re broken it’s because you’re brittle… ”
“ i could peel you like a pear and god himself would call it justice. ”
“ i thought I’d come and gloat a little. ”
“ i know exactly what you will do, and exactly what you won’t. ”
“ love me, little lamb, or leave me. ”
“ i never heard a corpse complain of how it got so cold .”
“ in a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible. ”
“ my god, if i went-up in flames there’s not a living soul who’d piss on me to put the fire out. ”
“ there’s no affection for me here; but you wouldn’t think i’d want that, would you? ”
“ you’re so deceitful you can’t ask for water when you’re thirsty. ”
“ give you a little peace? why so modest? how about eternal peace? now there’s a thought. ”
“ you love nothing. you’re incomplete. the human parts of you are missing. you’re as dead as you are deadly. ”
BONUS [IT’S ACTUALLY A CHRISTMAS FILM, LMAO!]
“ what shall we hang — the holly, or each other? ”
