Roland God love you, William. So do I.
Played by Mark Addy 
A Knight's Tale (2001) · 75 quotes
A Knight's Tale (2001) · 75 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in A Knight's Tale (2001): in 17 of its 75 quotes
Most scenes with: William Thatcher (7), Geoffrey Chaucer (6), Wat Falhurst (5)
Scenes with Roland
17 scenes Roland Roland Well, Master Nude, having failed the test, have you any more to say?
I'm a writer.
A what?
A wha- a what? A writer. I write, with ink and parchment. Geoffrey Chaucer's the name, writing's the game. You've read my book? the Book of the Duchess? No? Well, it was allegorical.
Roland Well, we won't hold that against you, that's for every man to decide for himself.
What do you mean, dead?
Roland The spark of his life is smothered in shite. His spirit is gone but his stench remains. Does that answer your question?
I'll ride in his place.
Roland What's your name, William? I'm asking you, William Thatcher, to answer me with your name. It's not Sir William. It's not Count, or Duke or Earl William. It's certainly not King William.
I'm aware of that.
Roland You have to be of noble birth to compete!
A detail. The landscape is food. Do you want to eat or don't you?
Roland If the nobles find out who you are there'll be the devil to pay.
Then pray that they don't.
I can't explain it. She makes me feel like a poet.
Roland Well you may feel like a poet, but you sound like an idiot. You don't even know her name.
Oh, this is a disaster.
Roland [staring at the tent material]
Nah, I think it'll tunic up quite nicely, give me your dagger Wat.
Yes, behold my lord Ulrich, the rock, the hard place, like a wind from Gelderland he sweeps by blown far from his homeland in search of glory and honor, we walk in the garden of his turbulence.
Roland [crowd is silent, cricket noise]
...Yeah.
Crowd
Yeahhhhh!
Roland Well, that was different.
Well, it's time we celebrate our differences.
Roland Just maybe not in public.
[Keeping beat for a dance lesson]
And one and two and three and four and your hands should be light like a birdie on a branch. And one and two and three and four and Wat doesn't lead he follows like a girl. [Wat punches him] And one and two and twirlie twirlie twirlie! And one and two and you're still getting it wrong! And one and two and three and four you can hit me all day cause you punch like a... what?
Roland A girl!
Roland He is getting worse.
Say something about her breasts.
Roland Yeah, you miss her breasts.
Her breasts?
Ye... yes, you... you could, umm... umm... but I... I would tend to look above her breasts, William.
Her throat?
Uh, still higher really, toward the heavens.
The moon at least, her breasts were not that impressive.
It is romantic though.
Roland Are you a woman or a blacksmith?
Sometimes I'm both.
Roland God love you, William.
I know, I know. 'Cause no one else will.
French Squire 1
An Englishman will not win this French tournament. English legs are unsteady on French soil.
French Squire 2
And because French wine is too much for English bellies.
French Squire 3
And most importantly, because the Pope himself is French.
Roland Well, the Pope may be French, but Jesus is English! You're on!
Roland What are you doing?
Losing.
Roland I don't understand!
Neither do I.
Roland You have been measured.
And you have absolutely...
Been found wanting.
Welcome to a New World. God save you, if it is right that he should do so.
