The Bishop Quotes in Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)

The Bishop: Have you anything to say in your defense?

Grigori Rasputin: I was attacked. I defended myself.

The Bishop: I am not refering to this.

[reveals severed hand]

The Bishop: That's a mess for the civil authorities.

Grigori Rasputin: During the time that I've been here, you've tried to teach me that confession of my sins is good for the soul.

The Bishop: Well?

Grigori Rasputin: You also tried to remove all temptations from us so that there's no chance of any sin here. I've merely tried to put that right.

The Bishop: I tried to teach the rudiments of rugby football. But it wasn't really their sort of thing. They hang on to the ball for too long. Weeks, sometimes.

[last lines]

Older Simon: [Older Simon grabs Bishop Bilodeau by the back of the neck and holds a knife to his throat.]

The Bishop: Kill me.

Older Simon: [Older Simon kisses the Bishop]

The Bishop: Kill me.

Older Simon: [Hands knife to Bishop] Never, Bilodeau, never.

Father Brown: My lord, this is lunacy.

The Bishop: Father Brown, you will be good enough to leave matters in the lunatic hands of the inspector and myself. Scotland Yard will continue to inform you of our further insane decisions. Meanwhile, good morning.

The Bishop: My boy, you must first return everything you have stolen.

West End Bertie: You have suggested my intensions... precisely!

The Bishop: When you 'ave done this, then come to me. I will always be your friend.

The Bishop: We're brothers all... my friends. Bear no ill will... life is what we make it.

[first lines]

[four men, sitting at a table, each sign a booklet]

The Duke: Your Excellency.

The Magistrate: Mr. President.

The President: My lord.

The Bishop: All's good if it's excessive.

The Bishop: Idiot, did you really think we would kill you? Don't you see we want to kill you a thousand times, to the limits of eternity, if eternity could have limits?

The Bishop: They came only to see, from the east and from the west, from the city and from the plain. They came not, in holy reverence to the lord, but in lust.

The Bishop: If people become obsessed with evils that might occur, they neglect the present good that they should do.

The Bishop: I've shaken your faith, Professor?

Simon Kirkman: No, I don't have a faith.

The Bishop: Your faith in scientific rationality.

Simon Kirkman: [subdued] Oh.

The Bishop: [to the Nazi Major] No wonder you take away the breath of life so readily. The breath of death is already upon you.