Eleanor:
[to Alais] You'll make a lovely bride, I wonder if I'll cry.
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
Eleanor:
[to her husband, Henry II] I wonder... do you ever wonder... if I slept with your father.
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
Eleanor:
[to her jewelry] I'd hang you from the nipples, but you'd shock the children.
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
Eleanor:
[to John] Hush dear, mother's fighting.
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
Eleanor:
[to Richard] Love me, little lamb, or leave me.
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
Eleanor:
[to the king] If you're broken it's because you're fragile.
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
Eleanor:
And when you die, which is regrettable but necessary, what will happen to frail Alais and her pruny prince? You can't think Richard's going to wait for your grotesque to grow.
Henry II: You wouldn't let him do a thing like that.
Eleanor: Let him? I'd push him through the nursery door.
Henry II: You're not that cruel.
Eleanor: Don't fret. We'll wait until you're dead to do it.
Henry II: Eleanor, what do you want?
Eleanor: Just what you want, a king for a son. You can make more, I can't. You think I want to disappear? One son is all I've got, and you can blot him out and call me cruel? For these ten years you've lived with everything I've lost, and loved another woman through it all, and I am cruel? I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice!
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
Henry II: You wouldn't let him do a thing like that.
Eleanor: Let him? I'd push him through the nursery door.
Henry II: You're not that cruel.
Eleanor: Don't fret. We'll wait until you're dead to do it.
Henry II: Eleanor, what do you want?
Eleanor: Just what you want, a king for a son. You can make more, I can't. You think I want to disappear? One son is all I've got, and you can blot him out and call me cruel? For these ten years you've lived with everything I've lost, and loved another woman through it all, and I am cruel? I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice!
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
Eleanor:
He had a mind like Aristotle and a form like mortal sin.
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
--Katharine Hepburn (as Eleanor of Aquitaine) in The Lion in Winter
