Orson Welles credited as playing...
Cardinal Wolsey
- Cardinal Wolsey: You're a constant regret to me, Thomas. If you could just see facts flat-on, without that horrible moral squint... With a little common sense you could have made a statesman.
- Cardinal Wolsey: You'd like that, wouldn't you? To govern the country with prayers?
- Sir Thomas More: Yes, I should.
- Cardinal Wolsey: I'd like to be there when you try.
- Cardinal Wolsey: That... thing out there; at least she's fertile.
- Sir Thomas More: She's not his wife.
- Cardinal Wolsey: No, Catherine's his wife and she's barren as a brick; are you going to pray for a miracle?
- Sir Thomas More: There are precedents.
- Cardinal Wolsey: He needs a son. I repeat, what are you going to do about it?
- Sir Thomas More: I pray for it daily.
- Cardinal Wolsey: God's death, he means it.
- Cardinal Wolsey: [as More turns to leave] More! You should have been a cleric!
- Sir Thomas More: Like yourself, Your Grace?
- Cardinal Wolsey: The King wants a son. What are you going to do about it?
- Sir Thomas More: I'm very sure the King needs no advice from me on what to do about it.
- Cardinal Wolsey: You opposed me in the Council this morning, Thomas.
- Sir Thomas More: Yes, Your Grace.
- Cardinal Wolsey: You were the only one.
- Sir Thomas More: Yes, Your Grace.
- Cardinal Wolsey: You're a fool.
- Sir Thomas More: Thank God there is only one fool on the Council.
- Cardinal Wolsey: Come down to earth. Until you do - you and I are enemies.
- Sir Thomas More: As Your Grace wishes.
- Cardinal Wolsey: As God wills.
- Sir Thomas More: Perhaps, Your Grace.