Prince Edward Quotes in A Knight's Tale (2001)

Prince Edward: [sighs] What a pair we make, huh? Both trying to hide who we are, both unable to do so. Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough. But you also tilt when you should withdraw... and that is knightly, too.

Prince Edward: [to guards] Release him.

[Edward turns to crowd]

Prince Edward: He may appear to be of humble origins, but my personal historians have discovered that he is descendent from an ancient royal line.

[crowd murmuring]

Prince Edward: This is my word... and, as such, is beyond contestation.

Prince Edward: [turns to William] Now, if I may repay the kindness you once showed me... take a knee.

[draws his sword]

Prince Edward: By the power vested in me by my father, King Edward, and by all the witnesses here, I dub thee Sir William.

[crowd cheers]

Prince Edward: [silencing crowd] Arise... Sir William. Can you joust?

William: What?

Prince Edward: There's my tournament to finish. Now, are you fit to compete, or shall the forfeit stand?

William: No, I'm fit.

Prince Edward: I shall have your opponent informed of it. You look for his shield in the lists... at once.

William: Thank you, my lord.

Prince Edward: Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough.

Prince Edward: If I may repay the kindness you once showed me. Take a knee...

William: It's not in me to withdraw.

Prince Edward: No. Nor me. Though it happens.

Prince Edward: Our policemen, father, could not find a missing haystack, let alone a needle!

Prince Edward: How amazing!

Prince Edward: [singing] I'd have a chance to pick and choose/I'd have a chance to win or lose/And maybe one of us would have a chance to live/Before we die!

Dowager Queen: [suddenly waking] Die? Who's died?

Prince Edward: Father, you have done what you've done. The spoils are yours, but it is a small victory.

The King: If I could explain...

Prince Edward: Spare me that. Spare me the final hypocrisy of your sympathy. Take your map. Rearrange it to your heart's content. Make your precious marriage of alliance. You've destroyed whatever vestige of love and happiness I might have found, and you've done it in the name of patriotism. So... let it be thus. Choose me a bride from amongst the ragbag of royal virgins I have twice rejected. Choose who you will. I care not. I'll play my public part to the altar but no further. Your royal house will live with you but die with me.

Prince Edward: Thank you for taking care of my bride, peasants.

Prince Edward: Giselle!

[leaps off a bridge, begins to sing]

Prince Edward: I've been dreaming of a...

[a group of cyclists collide with Prince Edward, everyone collapses]

Prince Edward: [threatening Robert with his sword] Have you any last words before I dispatch you?

Robert: You have got to be kidding me!

Prince Edward: Strange words!

Prince Edward: [talking to a TV] Magic Mirror. I beg you. Tell me where she is!

Mary Ilene Caselotti: [on TV] Reporting from 116th and Broadway.

Prince Edward: One hundred and sixteenth and Broadway!

[hugs the TV]

Prince Edward: Thank you mirror!

[kisses it and runs off]

Prince Edward: Go ahead, Pip. What is it you want to say?

Pip in New York: [clears his throat, squeaks] You with me.

[rubs "hands" together and points to Nathaniel, trying to tell Edward that Nathaniel is a traitor]

Prince Edward: Nathaniel?

Pip in New York: [squeaking] Uh-huh. Nathaniel.

Prince Edward: Nathaniel's glad to have me near.

Pip in New York: [squeaking] No-no-no-no-no!

[imitates Nathaniel and then scurries to a soda cup indicating that he saw Nathaniel talking to Narissa in a boiling pot and made three apples appear]

Pip in New York: Broop, broop, broop.

Pip in New York: [takes a piece of ice as if it were an apple. Imitates Nathaniel again] Giselle.

[imitates Giselle singing "True Love's Kiss"]

Prince Edward: Oh, I know this one.

Pip in New York: [as Nathaniel] Apple?

[as Giselle]

Pip in New York: No, thank you.

[as Nathaniel]

Pip in New York: It's good.

[as Giselle]

Pip in New York: Oh, okay.

[crunches on the ice and imitates death and then strikes a "tada" pose and waits for Edward's interpretation]

Prince Edward: You feel you'd die without me here.

[Prince Edward rides on top of an MTA New York City Transit bus thinking it is a steel beast]

Prince Edward: You've met your match, you foul bellowing beast!

[He takes his sword and stabs it through the roof of the bus, the blade also ripping open an old lady's bag in the process]

Bus Driver: [stops the bus] Everybody stay on the bus.

Prince Edward: Giselle? My love?

Pip in New York: Giselle?

Prince Edward: Right. The steel beast is dead, peasants! I've set you all free!

Bus Driver: [gets off the bus and yells at Edward] Are you crazy? Nobody stabs my bus! I'll tear you apart! Do you hear me? You get down here RIGHT NOW!

Nathaniel: Madam, allow me...

Prince Edward: Nathaniel, old friend!

Nathaniel: Sire, may I suggest that you, uh...

Bus Driver: You? A friend a' his? Crazy tight-wearin'... Are you tryin' to mess up my route?

[Pip jumps onto her forehead, and mimics her]

Bus Driver: I'll tear you both apart! Don't you roll your eyes at me, you...

[Nathaniel points at Pip, causing the driver to look up]

Bus Driver: A RAT! GET IT AWAY FROM ME!

[She goes berserk and tries to get Pip off of her]

Prince Edward: Well, strictly speaking, he's a chipmunk.

Nathaniel: Sire, may I suggest we seek elsewhere for your bride?

Giselle: I was just thinking.

Prince Edward: Think-ing?

Giselle: Before we leave, there's one thing I would love to do.

Prince Edward: Well, name it my love, and it is done.

Giselle: I want to go on a date.

Prince Edward: A date!

Prince Edward: What's a date?

Prince Edward: [holds sword in front of construction worker's neck, trying to find Giselle] I seek a beautiful girl. My life partner, my one coquette, the answer to my love's duet.

Arty: [stuttering] I-I'd like to find one of them too, you know?

[Prince Edward sits on a remote control and sees the TV turn on]

Prince Edward: It seems as if this box controls the Magic Mirror.

Queen Narissa: [after being accused of poisoning Giselle] Why would I ever align myself with that buffoon? I mean, think about it. Why...?

Prince Edward: Silence! You lying, murderous wretch! When we return home, Andalasia shall know of your treachery. Your days as queen will be over!

Queen Narissa: Take my crown? Don't you think that's a bit melodramatic, dear?

Prince Edward: I don't know what "melodramatic" means, but you'll be removed from the throne, Narissa. I will see to it.

[Prince Edward knocks on a random door in Robert's apartment building, trying to find Giselle]

Pregnant Woman with Kids: [taking in Edward's "Prince Charming" getup] ... You're too late.

Prince Edward: [stricken] My apologies.

Giselle: Oh, it's you.

Prince Edward: Yes, it's me. And you are?

Giselle: Giselle.

Prince Edward: Oh, Giselle! We shall be married in the morning!

Nathaniel: Sire, do you like yourself?

Prince Edward: What's not to like?

Prince Edward: [singing] Yes, there's a maid somewhere I've never met/ Who was made...

Giselle: [smiles, realizes she wasn't paying attention to what he was singing]

Prince Edward: [prompting] ... who was made...

[pauses, and then prompts in a soprano]

Prince Edward: ... to finish...

Giselle: What's wrong?

Prince Edward: You're not singing.

Giselle: Oh. Oh, no I'm not. Well, I was just thinking.

Prince Edward: [perplexed] Think-ing...?

Prince Edward: Fear not, Giselle! I will rescue you!

Pip in Andalasia: Yeah, but who's gonna rescue MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?

Prince Edward: Nathaniel likes the way I leap?

Prince Edward: I'm handsome even when I sleep?

Longshanks: What news of the North?

Prince Edward: Nothing new, Your Majesty. We've sent riders to speed any word.

Longshanks: I heard the word in France where I was fighting to expand your future kingdom. The word, my son, is that our entire Northern Army is *annihilated*.

Longshanks: Who is this person who speaks to me as though I needed his advice?

Prince Edward: I have declared Phillip my high counselor.

Longshanks: Is he qualified?

Phillip: I am skilled in the arts of war and military tactics, Sire.

Longshanks: Are you? Then tell me, what advice would you offer on the present situation?

Princess Isabelle: I've come to beg for the life of William Wallace.

Prince Edward: [scoffs] You're quite taken with him, aren't you?

Princess Isabelle: I respect him!

Longshanks: Scottish rebels have routed one of my garrisons and murdered the noble lord.

Prince Edward: I heard. This Wallace is a brigand, nothing more.

Longshanks: And how would you deal with this 'brigand?'

Prince Edward: Like any common thief. Have the local magistrate arrest him and punish him accordingly.

Longshanks: [to all] Leave us.

[room clears, then Longshanks strikes the Prince]

Longshanks: Wallace has already killed the magistrate, and taken control of the town!

Prince Edward: [muttering to Tom about Uncle Ned, who rules while Edward is King as a minor] I wish he'd die.

Thomas Seymour: What? What was that?

Prince Edward: I said, I wish he'd die. D-Y-E.

Thomas Seymour: It's the wrong spelling.

Prince Edward: [nonchalant] Oh, is it?

Ned Seymour: What is Your Majesty talking about?

Prince Edward: Spelling. Nobody knows for certain how to spell the King's English.

Ned Seymour: The spelling is not important, so long as the word carries the right meaning.

Thomas Seymour: The word His Majesty had *exactly* the right meaning.

Young Prince: I shall not sleep in quiet at the tower.

Richard III: Why? What should you fear?

Young Prince: My Uncle Clarence's angry ghost: My grandma told me he was murdered there.

Prince Edward: I fear no Uncles dead.

Richard III: Nor none who live, I hope.

Prince Edward: Why should you love him whom the world hates so?