The Tudors » Quotes (TV Show)

Queen Katherine: I am so glad to see you. It is often lonely here.
Charles V: Lonely?
Queen Katherine: Things are not well between us. His Majesty and I.
Charles V: But... I saw with my own eyes how attentive he is to you. He looks at you with such devotion, it seems. With such love.
Queen Katherine: I fear that is for your benefit. Henry is a good masquer. I think sometimes that he will ask me for a divorce.
Charles V: A divorce? No, that's impossible.
Queen Katherine: (Glances towards Henry as he crosses paths with Anne Boleyn once more) Is it?

Queen Katherine: Tell me, do you prefer your place in this life rather than in heaven?

Anne Boleyn: (Henry sticks his hand up her dress) Not like this.
King Henry VIII: How then?
Anne Boleyn: Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.

King Henry VIII: (to Wolsey) I want a divorce, and you will get one for me.

Anne of Cleves: If I cannot please the King, will he kill me?

Sir Thomas More: If the lion knows its own strength, no man could control it...

Thomas Wyatt: (about Anne Boleyn) If she gets her way, she will set our whole country in a roar...

King Henry VIII: (after holding a council meeting) It is settled. We are to war with France. Now... I can go play.
(Several courtiers laugh)

Duke of Buckingham: I am a direct descendant of Edward II. This is MY crown!

Queen Katherine: (as Katherine is called upon to testify, she falls to her knees at Henry's feet) My Lord. Sir. I beseech you, for all the love that has been between us, let me have justice and right. Give me some pity and compassion, for I am a poor woman, and a stranger, born out of your dominion. I have no friend here, and little counsel. I flee to you as head of justice in this realm. I call to God and all the world to witness that I have been to you a true, humble, and obedient wife, ever comfortable to your will and pleasure. I have loved all those who you have loved, for your sake, whether or not I had cause, whether they be my friends or enemies. By me you have had many children, although it has pleased God to call them from this world. But when you had me at first, I take God as my judge! I was a true maid, without touch of man! And whether or not it be true, I put it to your conscience.

Queen Katherine: He will tire of you, like all the others.
Anne Boleyn: And what if he does not?

King Henry VIII: Thomas Wyatt, were you in love with Anne Boleyn?
Thomas Wyatt: Of course I loved her. But... from a distance.

Queen Katherine: (to Anne Boleyn) I know what you are trying to do, but do not think to take the King away from me. Let him play with you. Let him give you gifts. But he cannot give you his true heart... for *I* have that in my keeping.

(after having caught Charles having sex with his daughter, Anna)
Duke of Buckingham: What's this? Brandon!
Charles Brandon: It's what it looks like, Your Grace.
Duke of Buckingham: (livid) You violated my daughter!
Charles Brandon: No, no. She begged.
(pulls out sword threateningly and holds it to Charles' throat)
Duke of Buckingham: You've taken her honor!
Charles Brandon: (smiling amusingly) I swear to your grace, someone else was there before me.
Duke of Buckingham: (while holding his sword to Charles' throat) You son of a whore.
Charles Brandon: (smirking) Yes, that is true, Your Grace.
Duke of Buckingham: I should kill you for this!
(pause)
Duke of Buckingham: Get out!

Queen Katherine: You have not answered my nephew's letters.
King Henry VIII: Just because your nephew's the King of Spain. Does he think I have nothing better to do?
Queen Katherine: You know he advises you to sign a treaty with the Emperor, recognizing France as our mutual enemy. He also advises you not to heed everything Wolsey tells you, because Wolsey is so biased with the French.
King Henry VIII: Since when are you a diplomat?
Queen Katherine: I am my father's daughter.
King Henry VIII: (Grabbing Katherine tightly by her wrist) You are my WIFE. You are not my Minister, you are not my Chancellor, but my wife.