Mystery!: Cadfael (TV Series)

Monk's Hood (1994)

Derek Jacobi: Brother Cadfael

Quotes 

• Brother Cadfael : No man is measured by the love he gives to others but by how much he is loved.

• [last lines] 

  Richildis : Shall I see you again?

  Brother Cadfael : Under the certainty of heaven, all that we can be sure of is tomorrow. When yesterday is already ours, what more can we ask?

• Richildis : Oh, Cadfael... did you take it so hard? Did it have to be the cloister? I have wondered about you so often and for so long... I never knew I had done you such an injury.

  Brother Cadfael : The whole fault was mine. And I have wished you well always... as I do now.

• Brother Cadfael : [after Meurig has begged that Cadfael deliver him up to the authorities]  What benefit to the world would your death bring?

  Meurig : What must I do, brother?

  Brother Cadfael : Give your love freely and look for nothing in return.

• Richildis : I thought you must have died fighting in the Holy Land. What happened? Did you forget your promise?

  Brother Cadfael : No, not forget, not that. But whenever my thoughts strayed towards home, there was always something... it seemed important then.

  Richildis : I waited, Cadfael. Eight years. You vowed to return laden with honors to claim me as your bride.

  Brother Cadfael : So I did. Well, the honors were too few and my return was too late.

• Richildis : I never thought to look on your face again in this world.

  Brother Cadfael : You are happy?

  Richildis : To have found you again, yes!

• Richildis : I know the pains you went to on Edwin's behalf were not without cost.

  Brother Cadfael : I did what had to be done, no more... and whatever the cost, it was but little against what I owed... and well worth the pains.

  Richildis : You are not in debt to me, Cadfael, real or imagined. You have delivered my son from the executioner's rope; if there's anything owed-...

  Brother Cadfael : To part in friendship is a reward greater than I could have hoped for.

  Richildis : Must it be a parting? Come with me!

  Brother Cadfael : [pause, then]  I took my vows for life, Richildis.