Pitt the Younger Quotes in Amazing Grace (2006)

Pitt the Younger: Why is it you only feel the thorns in your feet when you stop running?

William Wilberforce: Is that some sort of heavy-handed metaphorical advice for me, Mr. Pitt?

Pitt the Younger: As your Prime Minister, I urge you caution

William Wilberforce: And as my friend?

Pitt the Younger: To hell with caution.

William Wilberforce: No one of our age has ever taken power.

Pitt the Younger: Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway.

Pitt the Younger: It's your wedding day - I agree with everything you say.

Pitt the Younger: Trouble is, Doctor, he doesn't believe he has a body. Utterly careless of it.

Pitt the Younger: Barbara. You have my deepest condolescences.

Barbara Wilberforce: [feigning seriousness] Thank you.

Pitt the Younger: But do me a favour. Make him eat some of his pets.

Barbara Wilberforce: [picking up rabbit] I rather like them.

Pitt the Younger: I like them, too - in brandy sauce.

Pitt the Younger: I don't care how important this is. I'll finish my shot.

Pitt the Younger: [aims with club]

Pitt the Younger: [exasperated] Oh, for God's sake, what is it?

Pitt the Younger: [on his deathbed] No more excuses, Wilber. Finish them off.

Pitt the Younger: Do you intend to use your beautiful voice to praise the Lord... or change the world?

Pitt the Younger: [to Lord Fox] You always look more at home when you're doing something devious.

Pitt the Younger: We cracked crowns, didn't we?

William Wilberforce: We left the heads intact.

Pitt the Younger: Because we're so pathetically English.

Pitt the Younger: You act like you've never seen slavery before.

William Wilberforce: For me, it's like arsenic. Each new tiny dose doubles the effect.

Pitt the Younger: Is that the main course?

William Wilberforce: No. It's the Duke of Clarence.

Pitt the Younger: I find that the older I get, the more tender I become.

William Wilberforce: I never change.

Pitt the Younger: Well, hurrah for you.

Thomas Clarkson: It promotes the war effort, patriotism, and... all that.

Pitt the Younger: Since when have you been interested in the war effort, patriotism, and... all that?

Pitt the Younger: As Prime Minister, idle gossip collects around you like scum in slack water.