A Man for All Seasons (1966)

Wendy Hiller: Alice More

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• [after King Henry VIII leaves] 

  Alice More : What's this? You crossed him?

  Sir Thomas More : Somewhat.

  Alice More : Why?

  Sir Thomas More : I couldn't find the other way.

  Alice More : You're too nice altogether, Thomas.

  Sir Thomas More : Woman, mind your house!

  Alice More : I am minding my house!

• Alice More : Poor, silly man - do you think they leave you here to think?

• Alice More : As for understanding, I understand you're the best man I ever met or ever likely to. And if you go, God knows why I suppose, though as God's my witness, God's kept deadly quiet about it. And if any one wants to know my opinion of the King and his Council, he only has to ask for it!

  Sir Thomas More : Why, it's a lion I married. A lion. A lion!

• Alice More : Well, there's an end of you. What'll you do now? Sit by the fire - and make goslings in the ash?

  Sir Thomas More : Not at all, Alice. I expect I'll write a bit. I'll write, I'll read, I'll think. I think I'll learn to fish. I'll play with my grandchildren when son Roper's done his duty.

• Alice More : If I'm to lose my rank and fall to housekeeping, I want to know the reason. So make a statement now.

  Sir Thomas More : No! Alice, it's a point of law. Accept it from me, Alice, that in silence is my safety, under the law. And my silence must be absolute, it must extend to you.

  Alice More : In short, you don't trust me.

• Sir Thomas More : Alice, shall I teach you to read?

  Alice More : No, by God!

• Sir Thomas More : [being summoned to Hampton Court]  The King's business.

  Margaret More : The Queen's business.

  Alice More : Mistress Anne Boleyn's business.

  Sir Thomas More : Well, it's all the Cardinal's business.

• Alice More : Wolsey's still a butcher. And you're a member of the King's High Council.

• Sir Thomas More : Will Roper's been.

  Alice More : Will Roper?

  Sir Thomas More : Yes, he's been here all night. He wants to marry Meg.

  Alice More : Why you don't beat that girl, l...

  Sir Thomas More : No. She's full of education and it's a delicate commodity.

• Alice More : Thomas? Stay friends with him.

  Sir Thomas More : Whatever may be done by smiling, you may rely on me to do. Set your mind at rest. This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made.

• Alice More : Man's a simpleton.

• Alice More : Take your muddy paws off me! Filthy, stinking, gutter-fed, turnkey! I'll see you suffer for this!