The Tudors – Series Quotes

Honi soit qui mal y pense.

— I won't sign it! I won't sign the treaty! Tell them I won't sign it!
— Fine! If you want the world to know that the King of England is not capable of keeping his word, easily changeable, shallow, then of course I will tell them! After all, I am merely Your Majesty's humble servant!

— I loved you.
— You don't know the meaning of the word, Charles. You can love for perhaps a year, a month, a day, even for an hour. And in that hour, I believe you love as well and deeply as any man. But after that hour... you love another, and another. Your love is most generous where it is most hurtful.

— Do you really think we should go to war?
— I think we should try to do as the King wants us to do.
— What if the King doesn't know what's in his best interests?
— Then we should help him decide.

— Is he handsome?
— He certainly thinks so.
— Is he vain?
— Your Majesty, he's French.

An important question, whether it is better for a king to be feared or loved.

— Is this not Mademoiselle Anne? Enchanté. His Eminence, Cardinal Wolsey, has told me all about you, but he did not tell me how beautiful you are. For a Frenchman, that is almost a crime.
— But the French tell every woman she is beautiful. Is this not a crime also?