Ever After quotes

View Quote Grand Dame: I find your collection of folk tales quite brilliant, actually.
Jacob Grimm: Thank you.
Grand Dame: But I must say, I was terribly disturbed when I read your version of the Little Cinder Girl.
Jacob Grimm: Well, there are those who swear that Perrault's telling with its Fairy Godmother and um... [laughs] magic pumpkins would be closer to the truth.
Wilhelm Grimm: Some claim the shoe was made of fur. Others insist it was glass. Well, I guess we'll never know.
Jacob Grimm: Forgive me, Your Majesty, might I inquire about the painting? She's really quite, um... extraordinary.
Grand Dame: Her name was Danielle de Barbarac. [reaches inside the box the footman has brought to her] And this was her "glass" slipper.
[The Grimm Brothers look at each other in shock.]
Grand Dame: Perhaps you allow me to set the record straight.
Wilheim Grimm: Then it's true, the story.
Grand Dame: Yes, quite. Now then, what was that phrase you use? Oh, yes. Once upon a time, there lived a young girl who loved her father very much...

View Quote Danielle: Forgive me, Your Highness, I did not see you.
Henry: Your aim would suggest otherwise.
Danielle: And for that, I know I must die.
Henry: Then speak of this to no one, and I shall be lenient.
Danielle: We have other horses, Your Highness. Younger, if that is your wish.
Henry: I wish for nothing more than to be free of my guilded cage.

View Quote Rodmilla: Are you ill?
Danielle: [half-asleep] No! Yes...
Rodmilla: Where were you?
Danielle: I got lost.
Rodmilla: I don't believe you. You're hiding something from me, I can feel it. I demand to know what it is.
Danielle: Why don't you tell me so I can go back to sleep?
Marguerite: What about our breakfast?
Danielle: You have two hands, make it yourself.
Marguerite: Why you lazy little leech!
Rodmilla: Jacqueline, go and boil some water.
Jacqueline: Me? Boil water?... Oh, I knew it! I just knew it!

View Quote Pierre Le Pieu: [to Danielle] I may be twice your age, but I'm well endowed. As evidenced by my estate, I've always had a soft spot for the less fortunate. You need a wealthy benefactor - and I need a young lady with spirit.

View Quote Leonardo DaVinci Then I shall have to make you wings.

View Quote Leonardo da Vinci: I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door!

View Quote Leonardo da Vinci: I shall leave walking on water with the Son of God. Fortunately, I tripped over an angel.

View Quote King Francis: [half-asleep] Off... with his head...
Queen Marie: Francis, wake up. Our son has something he wants to tell us.
Henry: Mother, Father, I want to build a University, with the largest library on the continent, where anyone can study no matter their station!
King Francis: All right... Who are you... and what have you done with our son?
Henry: [laughs] Oh, and I want to invite the gypsies to the ball!

View Quote Actor Role Drew Barrymore Danielle de Barbarac Dougray Scott Crown Prince Henry II Angelica Houston Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent Megan Dodds Marguerite de Ghent Melanie Lynskey Jacqueline de Ghent Patrick Godfrey Leonardo da Vinci Lee Ingleby Gustave Richard O'Brien Monsieur Pierre Le Pieu Timothy West King Francis Judy Parfitt Queen Marie Jeroen Krabbe Auguste de Barbarac

View Quote Queen Marie: Choose wisely, Henry. Divorce is only something they do in England.

View Quote [Henry and Danielle meet outside Pierre Le Pieu's castle.]
Henry: Hello.
Danielle: Hello. [pause] What are you doing here?
Henry: [sheepishly] I uh... I came to... rescue you.
Danielle: Rescue me? A commoner? [starts to walk away]
Henry: [going after her] Actually, I came to beg your forgiveness. I offered you the world and at the first test of honor, I betrayed your trust. Please, Danielle...
Danielle: [stops, turns around] Say it again.
Henry: I'm sorry.
Danielle: No. [smiles] The part where you said my name.
Henry: [smiling] Danielle.

View Quote Young Danielle: Gustave, I told you, not today!
Young Gustave: You look like a girl!
Young Danielle: That is what I am, half-wit!
Young Gustave: Yeah, but today you look it!
Young Danielle: Boy or girl, I can still whip you!

View Quote Some people read because they cannot think for themselves.

View Quote [to Henry] Ask her yourself! She is a grasping, devious little pretender, and it is my duty, Your Highness, to expose her as the covetous hoax she is.

View Quote [about the prince] Honestly, I think he and Marguerite deserve each other.