The Dauphin Quotes in Joan of Arc (1948)

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: 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.

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.

Georges de la Trémouille: Don't trust her, my lord!

The Dauphin: I'm trying not to trust her - but every time I look into her eyes, I believe what she says is true.

Jean - Duke d'Alencon: Your kingdom slips from you and you look the other way.

The Dauphin: No more Alencon, if you love me.

Jean - Duke d'Alencon: If I love you, I must say more.

The Dauphin: And what does France mean to me? A mad father who signed away my rights with a treaty - a mother who has declared me illegitimate. A sister who married the enemy king and now is mothering a pretender to my throne. Do you wonder if I amuse myself?

Jean - Duke d'Alencon: I can't watch it.

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.