Memorable quotes for
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) More at IMDbPro »Fratello sole, sorella luna (original title)

Paolo: You just saunter out of your house one fine morning and pluck God out of the air as easily as catching a butterfly. It's all too simple.
St. Francis of Assisi: If what you say is true then the Holy Father will point out errors in my faith
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Bishop Guido: They are restoring a consecrated ruin for love. Is that a crime?
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Giacondo: He's been riding all night on a girl. Tomorrow is the battle, we must prepare!
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Bernardo: War's a serious business
Giacondo: Such profoundity Bernardo
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St. Francis of Assisi: This is my death mask.
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Bishop Guido: Come forward, sons of Assisi. God is with you!
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Pietro Di Bernardone: Business is blooming, life is back to normal at last
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Pietro Di Bernardone: These servants are just like animals!
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Pietro Di Bernardone: That's obvious what was wrong with him. The boy needed a woman.
Pica Di Bernardone: Don't be so clumsy, monsignor. It's L'Amour
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St. Francis of Assisi: What have the judges of men to do with me. God is my only judge!
Consul: Unfortunately, he isn't around to help us out.
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Bishop Guido: So what do you want?
St. Francis of Assisi: I want to be happy, I want to live like the birds in the sky. I want to experience the freedom and beauty that they experience.
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St. Francis of Assisi: If the purpose of life is this loveless toil we fill our days with, then it is not for me.
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Consul: Everyone will have his assigned place
[when the emperor enters the town]
Bishop Guido: But you are here! Streets ahead of me!
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Bernardo: I want to help you
St. Francis of Assisi: Words, words Bernardo. There was a time when I believed in words.
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St. Francis of Assisi: Come and let yourselves be built as living stones into the spiritual temple
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Giacondo: God himself had come down from heaven to talk to him?
Silvestro: God has spoken to lots of people sometimes
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St. Francis of Assisi: [to the pope's guard] No, not him. He is not with us! Tell him, Paolo, you are not with us.
Bernardo: Tell him!
Paolo: I am with them
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Pope Innocent III: In our obsession of original sin, we too often forget original innocence.
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Pope Innocent III: You've brought me, dear children, great joy and a little sadness
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Pietro Di Bernardone: I may curse the war because of the fever it brought to you but for business, it was a blessing
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St. Francis of Assisi: [to Giocondo] We are not a regiment of priests for whom the sacred vow of chastity is the discipline. We are just a band of men who simply love God, each according to his own capacity.
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Pietro Di Bernardone: He's ill! He's come back from the war because he ill. He's not a coward!
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St. Francis of Assisi: When you wanted your wife to speak like you, why didn't you marry the thick headed butcher's daughter?
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St. Francis of Assisi: What shall we do with the money we will make out of this war? Have you thought about that?
Pietro Di Bernardone: Aah! A true son of his father, hey Pica!
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Pietro Di Bernardone: We'll save a fortune on indulgences
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Pietro Di Bernardone: [to Pica secretly] That lad's after a woman
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Pietro Di Bernardone: Look, Francesco! See these! Family arms. Titled people
[smile]
Pietro Di Bernardone: on their knees they were. Cost me less than nothing
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Pica Di Bernardone: [to Pietro Bernardone] You're a stupid, thick headed, vulgar animal. That's what you are!
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St. Francis of Assisi: Father! I wanna share the joy with you. Our treasures are in heaven not here on earth, don't be a slave of these! Throw it all away! Do as I do, it's so simple, be free!
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Bishop Guido: Pietro di Bernardone, this will not do! How dare you disturb us when we are in the middle of saying our offers! What's the matter with you, man? Have you lost your senses?
Pietro Di Bernardone: That's not me, Your Grace but that lunatic over there!
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St. Francis of Assisi: I want to be a beggar! Yes, yes a beggar. Christ was a beggar, His Holy Apostles were beggars. I want to be as free as they are.
Pietro Di Bernardone: But Your Grace, even beggars show respect to their fathers!
St. Francis of Assisi: I'm not your son anymore. What is born of flesh is flesh, what is born of spirit is spirit. Now, I'm born again.
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Bishop Guido: [to the Consul] This is beyond blasphemy! Do you suggest that you are in direct communication with the Word of God?
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Giacondo: Bernardo, how do you like your chicken? Leg or breast?
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St. Francis of Assisi: We are all poor in the eyes of our Lord.
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Pope secretary: The hermits from Assisi. They're here to make submission to Your Holiness, their leader is
[a pause]
Pope secretary: Francesco. Just an ordinary blessing, Your Holiness, to gratify bishop Guido.
Pope Innocent III: [to Francesco] You asked permission to speak to us. Well, speak!
[a moment of silence]
Pope Innocent III: Speak!
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Cardinal: Don't be alarmed, His Holiness knows what He's doing. This is the man who will talk to the poor and bring them back to us.
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Clare: Do you remember me? I'm Clare... People say you are mad, do you know that? When you went off to war they said you were fine, intelligent - and now you are mad, because... because you sing like the birds, you chase after butterflies and... you look at flowers. I think you were mad before, not now.
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