Cauchon Quotes in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

Cauchon: Father Vincente, you're the most venerable among us. What do you think?

Father Vincente: I think this trial is a masquerade, and I won't be part of it anymore. I'm willing to be her judge, but not her executioner.

Cauchon: That's what I'm trying to ensure.

Father Vincente: [In a reproving tone] A verdict comes at the end of a trial, Cauchon, not at the beginning.

St.Joan of Arc: Shall I arise from the dead and come back to you, a living woman?

Warwick: Rome made you a saint, we had no hand in the business. Let Rome decide.

Cauchon: Stay where you are, woman. A dead saint is always safer for the Church than a living one...

De Courcelles: Were you in a state of grace when you stole the Bishop's horse?

Cauchon: The devil take the Bishop's horse.

St.Joan of Arc: Be you a saint?

English Soldier: Yes, lady, straight from hell.

Dunois, Bastard of Orleans: A saint, and from hell!

English Soldier: Yes, noble captain, I have a day off. Every year, you know. That's my allowance for my one good action.

Cauchon: Wretch! In all the years of your life did you do only one good action?

English Soldier: I never thought about it: it came natural like. But they scored it up for me.

The Dauphin, Charles VII: What was it?

English Soldier: Why, the silliest thing you ever heard of. I...

St.Joan of Arc: He tied two sticks together, and gave them to a poor lass that was going to be burned.

St.Joan of Arc: [to Cauchon] But what happened to thee? Art thou dead or alive?

Cauchon: Dead. Dishonoured. They pursued me beyond the grave. They excommunicated my dead body; they dug it up and flung it into the sewer.

Inquisitor: [after condemning Joan to death by fire] It's a terrible thing to see a young and innocent creature crushed between the Church and the Law.

Cauchon: You call her innocent?

Inquisitor: Quite innocent, she didn't understand a word we were saying.