- John: And I am one step nearer to England's crown!
- Alys: [contemptuously] You?
- John: When you consider it. Henry and Geoffrey were never particularly fond of war, and Richard loves it. The chances of Richard being killed are really excellent. And since I've been lucky with the other two, quite against the odds...?
- Alys: You're horrible.
- John: I know dear. But you'll learn to love me.
- Alys: I don't see why I should.
- John: You'll have to. If you marry me.
- Alys: Marry you? What does he mean?
- John: Doesn't she know?
- Alys: I'd never marry you. I'd rather marry Richard. At least he's brave. You couldn't even fight the Irish!
- Henry II: He's renounced the bishopric. I've made him Chancellor.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine: Chancellor? I though you always wanted to be a bishop?
- Geoffrey Bastard: No - that was Father.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine: Oh. It seemed a rather strange ambition, seeing your mother was a whore. As Chancellor, it's quite the other way about. I'm sure you'll serve the King as skillfully as she did.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine: When will you learn? You can't hold children to you with your purse-strings, but only with your heart.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine: Has it ever struck you that you're the one person who can unite this family completely? And for a single cause - to bring you down.
- Henry II: [having redistributed his lands among his surviving children] Now you'll have England!
- Richard Lionheart: England? What the hell is England? A land of hovels and pigs and whores, barbarians - you can piss on England. Poitou and Aquitaine are mine!