Young Bess (1953)

Stewart Granger: Thomas Seymour

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• 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.

• Thomas Seymour : If you were Queen of England, what would you do, eh? Would you give your Admiral the opportunity to do great deeds?

  Young Bess : I'd give him the opportunities he never dared to dream about. I'd send him around the globe as the Portuguese do. I'd send him to the New World to let the Spaniards know that they are no longer masters of it.

  Thomas Seymour : That won't be easy. We're a small country, Bess.

  Young Bess : That can be remedied, Tom. It *can* be remedied!

• Thomas Seymour : The King's daughter! And yet, there's something else in your face. Very interesting. I've seen it before. Her eyes. The same slim nose. Do you know there's not another nose like this in England? I'd know it in a thousand. But where's her smile? Do you know she turned men's heads with that smile of hers? Oh, I know. They made your childhood very unhappy. But I think that some day you're going to be as beautiful as she was, and everyone will fall for you. And that, You Highness, will save you from ever being lonely, as you are now.

• Thomas Seymour : I've only just begun.

  Young Bess : And I've just finished!

• Thomas Seymour : Excellent! Maturity, that's the secret. In wine as in women, my dear Ann.

  Ann Seymour : Thank you, Tom. I thought you liked them so young.

  Thomas Seymour : Not at all! Young wine goes straight to the head.

• Young Bess : I must talk to you.

  Thomas Seymour : At this hour? And in my room? And you in your bedgown? Use your head and allow me to keep mine on my shoulders.

• Ann Seymour : Sorry, Tom, that we had to separate you from your lady love.

  Thomas Seymour : My dear Ann, if I wanted to have a love affair, what makes you think I should look for it in a nursery.

• Thomas Seymour : Cathy. Don't move, sweetheart. Don't move. Beautiful. Beautiful! I wish that Italian fellow were still alive. Leonardo. He knew how to paint a woman like you.

• Thomas Seymour : We circled the globe. We conquered the world. It was wonderful!

• Thomas Seymour : Bess! Bess, forgive me. I was besides myself. I didn't know what I was doing.

  Young Bess : You couldn't help it. You either had to kiss me or - and I think it was better that you slapped me.

• Prince Edward : Do you think it's true that Danes put meat under their saddles and bounce on it until it's tender?

  Thomas Seymour : No, that's the Hungarians, Your Majesty.