family drama Quotes

“My parents have a way of ruining things like this.”

“My, what a greedy little trinity you are: king, king, king. Two of you must learn to live with disappointment.”

“Henry: Did the Channel part for you?
Eleanor: It went flat when I told it to. I didn’t think to ask for more. How dear of you to let me out of jail.”

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

“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.”

“It’s going to be a jungle of a day: if I start growling now. I’ll never last.”

“My position is - well frankly, Philip, it’s a tangle. Once I’m dead, who’s to be king? I could draw papers ‘til my scribes drop or the ink runs out, and once I died, unless I’ve left behind me three contented sons, my lands will split three ways in civil war.”

“For these ten years you’ve lived with everything I’ve lost and loved another woman through it all. And I’m cruel. I could peel you like a pear and God would call it justice ...”

“Well ‒ what shall we hang? The holly or each other?”