Gideon Blackburn quotes from Reign

Gideon Blackburn

(After carrying Mary and putting her down) You're light as a feather, I swear!

Gideon Blackburn

I never said I was a good man, but one can receive good advice from a bad person.

Gideon Blackburn

A relationship born in deceit often dies there.

Gideon Blackburn

I am asking you to marry me, but I am begging you to save your own life.

Gideon Blackburn

Stop making promises you don't have the power to keep.

Gideon Blackburn

You've put a sea between us. You didn't have to send me to a three-year-old's birthday party in Prague to do it.

Queen Mary

I need proof before the wedding happens.

Gideon Blackburn

That's tomorrow.

Queen Mary

Yes. So you'd better get to it, then.

Gideon Blackburn

The day may come when we, you and I, find ourselves facing off against each other across a battlefield. What would you do then?

Queen Mary

I will be forced to strike you down.

Lady Lola

Ambassador Blackburn.

Gideon Blackburn

Lady Lola. You remember me.

Lady Lola

Yes. You extended Elizabeth's invitation for me to visit England. I've been visiting ever since.

Gideon Blackburn

Do not kill Elizabeth. There will be much retaliation.

Queen Mary

I have no intention of killing her. I will dismantle her power bit by bit. Every choice I make, who I fight, who I support, who I marry, will be in service of taking her throne.

Gideon Blackburn

Do you think we can be happy together?

Queen Mary

Yes.

Gideon Blackburn

For tonight, that's all I need to know.

Gideon Blackburn

Mary, this is a course you cannot step back from. And if you take it, I fear I'm looking at a dead woman.

Queen Mary

We all die, Gideon. The question is what we stood for while we lived.

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.