Queen Elizabeth quotes from Reign

Robert Dudley

How could you do this to me? Marry me off to your rival, your enemy? You know I love you.

Queen Elizabeth

I know, and I believe you will be loyal to me until the day you die.

Queen Elizabeth

To save you. Live in France with her, live in Scotland, I don't care, but live.

Lady Lola

If you refuse John Knox as you suggest, it tells him you are a decisive and formidable ruler who will not be bullied.

Queen Elizabeth

Which I am.

Lady Lola

Which is what he really hates. So stall. Avoid a decision he can rally against. Let him think you are indecisive, innocuous...

Queen Elizabeth

Feminine.

A fruit from the New World. It's called a tomato.

Queen Elizabeth

This is a fruit?

Some say vegetable. Standing argument.

I brought something back called a turkey. Ugly bird, to be sure, but quite delicious.

Queen Elizabeth

Ah, yes. My guards warned me of the large, angry chicken. They've deemed it unsafe.

Queen Elizabeth

You say some of my lands are now a part of Scotland. How many lands?

Gideon Blackburn

Half a dozen more than we thought possible. They were disputable regions.

Queen Elizabeth

But they were English! Until she married Darnley.

Gideon Blackburn

Elizabeth, you are safe. Your food is regularly tested for poison.

Queen Elizabeth

Perhaps I'd feel more relaxed if my court were regularly tested for traitors.

Gideon Blackburn

Julia and Bernard have a good life.

Queen Elizabeth

I envy them. Although they are quite poor and powerless, and their clothes itch.

Gideon Blackburn

Jane has done nothing. She's only guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. How will you feel with her blood on your hands?

Queen Elizabeth

Safe! And when you are the Queen of England, that is the only feeling that matters.

Queen Elizabeth

His family's business depends on the gold it carries.

You're going to sink it?

Queen Elizabeth

No, I'm going to steal it.