- 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.
- St. Francis of Assisi: If the purpose of life is this loveless toil we fill our days with, then it is not for me.
- 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!
- 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.
- St. Francis of Assisi: Is there any man among you, who, by anxious thought can add a minute to his life? Or a foot to his height? Why the concern for your riches? Consider how the lilies grow in the fields. They do not work nor spin. Yet even Solomon, in all his splendor, was not attired like one of these. How little faith you have.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bernardo: I want to help you.
- St. Francis of Assisi: Words, words Bernardo. There was a time when I believed in words.
- 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.
- St. Francis of Assisi: When you wanted your wife to speak like you, why didn't you marry the thick headed butcher's daughter?
- 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!
- Consul: Everyone will have his assigned place
- [when the emperor enters the town]
- Bishop Guido: But you are here! Streets ahead of me!
- Pietro Di Bernardone: I may curse the war because of the fever it brought to you but for business, it was a blessing.
- 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!
- 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
- Pica Di Bernardone: [to Pietro Bernardone] You're a stupid, thick headed, vulgar animal. That's what you are!
- Bishop Guido: [to the Consul] This is beyond blasphemy! Do you suggest that you are in direct communication with the Word of God?
- 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!