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

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Joan of Arc Quotes:

  • Joan of Arc: I've always been faithful to God and I've followed everything He's ever said and I've done everything He's ever asked me to do.

    The Conscience: God asked you to do something?

    Joan of Arc: Yes. Yes, lots of things.

    The Conscience: You mean God said, "I need you, Jeanne."

    Joan of Arc: No. But He sent me signs.

    The Conscience: Signs? What signs?

    Joan of Arc: The wind. The wind. And the clouds, ringing!

    The Conscience: Ringing clouds?

    Joan of Arc: The dance. The dance. The dance. The dance.

    The Conscience: The dance.

    Joan of Arc: The sword! The sword lying in the field. That was a sign.

    The Conscience: No. That was a sword in a field.

    Joan of Arc: No. No, that was a sign!

    The Conscience: No. That was a sword. In a field.

    Joan of Arc: It can't just get there by itself! It can't. A sword just doesn't get there by itself. It can't just get there by itself.

    The Conscience: True. Every event has an infinite number of causes, so why pick one rather than another? There are many ways a sword might find itself in a field.

  • Pierre Cauchon: Joan, be careful, you're not helping yourself by refusing to submit to our judgment.

    Joan of Arc: You, who claimed to be my judges, you'll be careful, for you too one day will be judged.

  • [In questioning Joan regarding all the gifts that King Charles VII bestowed upon her]

    Priest: What about all these dresses you were given? Silk dresses, weren't they?

    Joan of Arc: Yes, I was given a few, but I never had time to wear them.

    Priest: Still... pretty wealthy for a peasant girl, wouldn't you say?

    Joan of Arc: You look pretty wealthy to be a servant of God, wouldn't you say?

  • Aulon: But how do you know that these voices aren't just really you?

    Joan of Arc: They are me. That's how God speaks to me. Even you could hear them if you listened hard enough.

  • Joan of Arc: May God forgive your blasphemy, because I never will!

  • Joan of Arc: All you have to do is do as you're told. What could be simpler than that? I am the drum on which God is beating out His messages. And right now He is beating so hard, it's splinting my ears!

  • Aulon: Jeanne! Are you all right?

    Joan of Arc: Yes, I'm fine. Why are you staring at me?

    Aulon: Because there's an arrow in your leg.

    Joan of Arc: [Looks down at arrow] So there is.But that doesn't stop you from climbing!

    [Motions him towards the wall]

    Joan of Arc: Raymond! Take this arrow out of my leg.

  • Joan of Arc: I don't think. I leave that to God. I'm nothing in all this, I'm just the Messenger.

  • Joan of Arc: How dare you stop me from doing God's will?

    Aulon: He didn't tell you to cut all your hair.

    Joan of Arc: How dare you tell me what God tells me to do?

    Aulon: Whatever, but since he's not going to come down and do it himself - I mean - at least let someone cut it properly!

  • Joan of Arc: This morning God gave us a great victory, but it is nothing compared to what he is ready to give us now. I know you are all tired and hungry, but I swear to you that even if these English were hanging from the clouds by their fingertips we would pull them down before nightfall. Now let all those who love me... follow me! Follow me!

  • Joan of Arc: I don't think. I leave that to God. I'm just a Messenger in all of this.

  • Joan of Arc: It's not my body I want to save. It's my soul.

  • Joan of Arc: There's nothing to hear! And why is there nothing to hear? Because I haven't DONE anything! And why haven't I done anything? Because none of you, WILL LISTEN TO ME!

  • Joan of Arc: I've seen enough blood, but if you want more, I can't stop you. But I must warn you, that it will be your blood, and not ours.

  • Joan of Arc: France does not belong to you, Charles. She belongs to God.

  • Joan of Arc: [to Dunois] You have been with your counsel. I have been with mine.

  • Joan of Arc: I've always been faithful to God, and I've done everything He's ever asked me to do.

  • Aulon: Is there anything you need?

    Joan of Arc: Well, I'll need a sword, a shield, some armour in my size, a horse and an artist to paint me a banner.

    Aulon: Now?

    Joan of Arc: Better today than tomorrow.

  • The Conscience: Who are you to even think you can know the difference between good and evil? Are you God?

    Joan of Arc: I am just the messenger. He needs me.

  • Joan of Arc: I did not come here to perform tricks. You're all much cleverer than I am. Me, I don't know A from B. But this much I do know. That while the people of France lie bleeding, you sit around in your fine clothes trying to deceive me, when you're only deceiving yourselves. You say you are men of God. Yet, you do not see His hand in having guided me through 500 leagues of enemy country to bring you His help. Is that not proof enough? Do you still need more signs?

  • Joan of Arc: Never look behind, only ahead.

  • [At Joan's insistence, a letter is fired by arrow over the British walls]

    Joan of Arc: [voice-over] This is the third and last time I will write to you... If you are still here at noon, I warn you that you will hear from me to your very great destruction. Please give me your answer speedily.

    Redbeard: [yells from the tower] Go fuck yourseves!

    Joan of Arc: What did he say?

    Aulon: He said he'd think about it.

  • Joan of Arc: Give me an army, send me to Orleans, and I will show you the sign I was sent to make.

  • Joan of Arc: [to Glassdale] Yield! Yield, to the King of Heaven! Or go back to your island.

    English soldier: And you, go back to your pigsty!

  • La Hire: I swear those Goddamned bloody English will pay for this.

    Joan of Arc: They will. And so will you, if you don't stop swearing!

  • Joan of Arc: I need to speak to the captain of the English Army.

    Dunois: To see the captain, we will have to cross the river.

    Joan of Arc: Well, who gave the order for me to be brought to this side of the river?

  • Charles VII: [Bathing in a tub with his wife] We are grateful for your pas efforts, but now your task is done. Now is the time for negotiation.

    Joan of Arc: Peace will only be got with the English by the end of a lance.

    Charles VII: Why are you so bloodthirsty? Do you enjoy it?

    Joan of Arc: No.

    Charles VII: Diplomacy is far more civilized, far safer, and far cheaper.

  • La Hire: [praying] I swear that I will never swear again in my life, if you save her life. But I'm warning you, if you let her die, then you're the biggest...

    Joan of Arc: Laxart! Don't swear.

    La Hire: He heard me.

  • [repeated line]

    Joan of Arc: Sooner is better than later.

  • The Dauphin: A ruler must compromise and bargain with the lowest kind of people, even the enemy. Men are governed by corruption, they like it.

    Joan of Arc: Men hate corruption, and God hates it!

    The Dauphin: I don't know about God, but men take to it very naturally.

  • Joan of Arc: [after seeing a soldier perish in flames during battle] Death by fire is a horrible thing.

  • La Hire: Why are you crying?

    Joan of Arc: Because they're dead. Horribly dead. And it was I who killed them.

    La Hire: Killed who?

    Joan of Arc: All these men. Ours, and the enemy's.

    La Hire: Huh! Are you crying about the English?

    Joan of Arc: I have no hatred for the English. I spoke bold and loud so that you would follow me. I thought victory would be beautiful, but it is an ugly, bloody thing.

    La Hire: Why, there never was a more beautiful victory than this!

  • Joan of Arc: My gentle Dauphin, it is you I seek, for I have come a long way to find you and no other can take your place. God has spoken to me through His messengers, and it is His will that I come to aid you and that you be King of France.

  • Joan of Arc: BISHOP! I die through you!

  • Joan of Arc: I think I have courage to die, but not to die thus in small sick ways.

  • Jean Beaupere: What do your voices tell you?

    Joan of Arc: They tell me to answer you boldly.

    Jean le Maistre: Did they promise to deliver you?

    Joan of Arc: Saint Catherine told me I would be rescued. I do not know whether this means I will be delivered by a French attack upon this city of Rouen, or something else. But I was told I would be freed by a great victory.

  • Joan of Arc: [to her troops, after hearing her voices] This is the hour. Now is the time. In God's name, strike! Strike boldly!

  • Joan of Arc: My King, have you taken money from the English?

    The Dauphin: That is not a question a king should be asked - or have to answer.

  • Joan of Arc: [after receiving no answer from her voices] Then I must go forth alone, without knowing how.

  • Joan of Arc: But if I had a hundred fathers and a hundred mothers, I could not go back. I must go forward now.

    Isabelle d'Arc: Then tell me where, Jeanette, towards what would you go?

  • Joan of Arc: Oh sweet God, forgive me - forgive me! I was afraid. What I said was for fear of the fire. I have damned my soul to save my life.

    [She weeps, but then, overjoyed, hears something we cannot]

    Joan of Arc: You speak to me! And I denied you.

  • Joan of Arc: I see it so clearly now - my "victory" is my martyrdom. My "escape" - my death.

  • Sir William Glasdale: I have never feared sorcery, and I take no warning from a harlot.

    Joan of Arc: [holding back tears] I meant only well to you.

  • Joan of Arc: You see there is no strength in me, and no strength in my hands. There is no strength in any of our hands great enough to win against the English. Our strength is in our faith. And if our faith is eaten away by little things that God hates, then, though there be a million of us, we should be beaten back and die.

  • Joan of Arc: Don't swear, La Hire. But if you must, swear "by my staff".

    La Hire: "By my staff!" What kind of an oath is that?

  • La Hire: She's one of two things - either a charlatan, or a fool.

    Joan of Arc: As for the first, I can't answer, as I don't know what the word means. If I am a fool, God as least has not held it against me.

  • Joan of Arc: There must be no swearing in this army, among high or low.

    La Hire: Do you want to strike the army dumb?

    Joan of Arc: This must begin with you.

  • The Dauphin: I'm not sure God wants me to be king. Why should God send me help, when I am - what I am?

    Joan of Arc: Put aside your doubts and fears, my lord Dauphin. Be noble as I have dreamed you to be - be as God requires you to be.

  • Bertrand de Poulengy: When do we set out?

    Joan of Arc: Today rather than tomorrow; tomorrow rather than the day after.

  • Joan of Arc: Believe me, I'd rather go home and spin with my mother, for this is not my proper place.

  • The Dauphin: The truth is Joan, I'm not the sort of person God will be very likely to be interested in. Truly I'm not. No, I'm no worse than the others here probably, but God bothers very little with any of us, if you should ask me. Now, I've been honest with you; be honest with me. What is it you want? Money? Lands? Presents? I'm a poor man, in spite of being...

    Joan of Arc: It is not true that God takes no interest in you. You say that to hide yourself from me, as you hid just now among the women - but God will find you out, and make you king.

  • Joan of Arc: All I have done, I have done by the command of my Lord - that is, all I have done well.

  • Joan of Arc: You say that you are my judges - I do not know if you are, but I say this: take care not to judge me wrongly, for in truth, I am sent by God, and you place yourself in great danger.

  • Joan of Arc: I should be in a church prison, guarded by women. Must you leave me here, Father Massieu?

    Father Massieu: I am commanded to leave you here. God keep you, child.

  • Joan of Arc: I have heard my voices again - they told me I did a very wicked thing by denying them, but they have forgiven me. I have faith in them - I have none in you.

    Jean le Maistre: This is a fatal answer.

    Father Massieu: Joan, do you know what this means? It means the fire - your death.

    Joan of Arc: To live without faith is more terrible than the fire, more terrible than dying young. I have nothing more to do here. Send me back to God, from whom I came.

  • Joan of Arc: It cannot take long to die - there will be a little pain, and then it will end.

    [she shakes her head]

    Joan of Arc: No, the pain won't be little - but it will end.

  • Joan of Arc: [Joan pleads that the siege be continued] We need only to go forward, and the fort is ours!

    La Hire: If she wants to attack - we attack.

  • Joan of Arc: Oh sweet God, you have been with me always. Be with me now, through the darkness. For I meant hurt to no one - let none be hurt for me.

  • Joan of Arc: I am to lead the Dauphin's armies.

    Sir Robert de Baudricourt - governor of Vaucouleurs: To lead his armies? When did the Dauphin have an army? And women don't lead armies, girl, they follow. If you want to become that, a camp follower, it can be arranged.

  • Jean Beaupere: Why did you display your banner at the coronation?

    Joan of Arc: It had shared in the toil, it was only right that it should share in the honor.

  • Jean - Duke d'Alencon: La Hire takes pride in being a plain, blunt fellow without polish for anybody, so think nothing of his greeting. He fights well.

    Joan of Arc: If he fights well, I shall like him.

  • Joan of Arc: Having lived amongst soldiers, it was more fitting for me that I should wear man's clothes.

  • Jean Beaupere: Do you believe that you are in a state of grace?

    Joan of Arc: If I am not, may God put me there. If I am, may... may He keep me there.

  • Joan of Arc: [last lines, at the stake] Glory be to the Father as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end!... Jesus!

    [gasps in pain]

    Joan of Arc: ...Jesus!

    [Cut to a shot of the crucifix in front of Joan; the flames overwhelm it and now all we see is smoke that eventually dissolves into heavenly light]

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