Best Line????

Either

Womba to Athelstane "Why would she need two fools?"

OR


Beaumanior Speaking of Rebecca "She even had the impertinence to quote our own psalms to me."

Montfitchet "To be fair, sir they were her psalms err they were ours."

Eleanor of Aquitaine as she readies herself to go and meet with her sons King John and King Richard in an attempt to end their rivalry and John's usurpation of Richard's throne, "Beware of powerful men, Bernice. They spawn unspeakable whelps!" She goes on to say something like, "And you, my sons, beware of powerful women!"
Actually, Eleanor has all the best lines in my opinion. They are magnificently sarcastic. At the meeting between Eleanor and her sons:
*To Richard who has not dismounted: "So this is what you have become, an oaf who remains seated in front of his mother."
*Again to Richard as he inquires as to the state of her health, Eleanor replies, "You find 'You Grace' (as Richard refers to her) in a state of fury that would shake the foundations of hell and send the devil himself running for shelter!"
*To John who has inquired if the Queen would prefer that their meeting remain secret: No, of course not, John, it matters not to me if all the nations of Christendom know that the sons of Queen Eleanor are curdle-brained ninnies so incapable of settling their own differences that they have to send for their mother to do it for them.
To John: Do not imagine that because I have silver hairs that I am in my dotage, boy.....I may not act on my knowledge, but never think that I do not know how your devious, spiteful mind works, my son."
*To Richard who has just remarked after her scolding of John, that "...you were ever fair, mother." Eleanor replies, "Your father may have been won by your smile, Richard, but your father is dead which as you helped slay him, you know full well; and I am NOT your father!" I have no patience with weak, vainglorious, self-indulgent men however much they clothe themselves in boyish charm.....John may be a miserable little runt, but at least he's BEEN here.
Sian Phillips delivers these lines with a wonderful sense of irony in her voice and in her facial expressions. She is magnificent in the role of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Rebecca to Bois-Guilbert after he declares his love, demanding if she knew this would happen to him:

"I should have. It's hard to search for someone else's soul without finding your own."

There isn't a wasted word between them. Every bit of their dialogue is rich with passion and meaning.