Petruchio: Will you, nill you, I will marry you.


--Richard Burton (as ) in The Taming of the Shrew

Thomas a Becket: [Looking on in reverence at the Holy Crucifix] I wonder Lord, are you laughing at me.


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket

Thomas a Becket: Don't do this!


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket

Thomas a Becket: Lord Gilbert, Baron of England by the grace of his majesty, King Henry II, seized upon the person of a priest of the Holy Church and unlawfully did hold him in custody. Furthermore, in the presence of Lord Gilbert, and by his command, his men seized upon this priest when he tried to escape and put him to death. This is the sin of murder and sacrilege. In that Lord Gilbert has rendered no act of contrition or repentance, and is at the moment, at liberty in the land, we do, here and now, separate him from the precious body and blood of Christ, and from the society of all Christians. We exclude him from our Holy Mother Church and all her sacraments, in heaven, or on Earth. We declare him excommunicate and anathema. We cast him into the outer darkness. We judge him damned with the devil and his fallen angels and all the reprobate, to eternal fire and everlasting pain!
[slams candle to the ground]
Monks: [chanting] So be it.


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket

Thomas a Becket: Nobility lies in the man, my prince, not in the towel.


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket

Thomas a Becket: Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket

Thomas a Becket: There, Lord - I'm ready: adorned for Your festivities.


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket

Thomas a Becket: We are both aware of the delicacy of my position. Let us trust that God will find a solution for it.


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket

Thomas a Becket: We must manage the church. One can always come to a sensible little arrangement with God.
King Henry II: Becket, you are a monster.
Thomas a Becket: You flatter me, My Lord.


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket

Thomas a Becket: Yes, we have soldiers disguised in the crowd to encourage enthusiasm.
King Henry II: Why must you destroy all my illusions?
Thomas a Becket: Because you should have none, My Prince.


--Richard Burton (as Thomas Becket) in Becket