Anne Boleyn quotes from The Tudors

Anne Boleyn

[to Master Wyatt] You are a poet as I am a woman. Poets and women are always free with their hearts, are they not?

Anne Boleyn

Here is a book of prophecy [looking at the cards laid out by a Papal agent] This is the King- this is the Queen- and this is myself... with my head cut off.

Anne Boleyn

Now, my love, let me conceive... and we will have a son.

Anne Boleyn

[smiling after hearing the news of Katherine of Aragon's death] Now I am indeed Queen.

Thomas Wyatt

Well, do you like it?

Anne Boleyn

Should I like something that accuses me of being cruel?

Thomas Wyatt

But you are cruel Mistress Anne.

Anne Boleyn

Am I? You have no claim on me Master Wyatt.

Thomas Wyatt

I have the same claim as every other lover to whom their heart has been freely given.

Anne Boleyn

[to Master Wyatt] You are a poet as I am a woman. Poets and women are always free with their hearts, are they not?

Thomas Wyatt

No

Anne Boleyn

Forgive me, I spoke of things I should not.

King Henry VIII

No, no, I give you leave that we may always speak freely with each other, honestly, openly and with a true heart. For me, that is the true definition of love.

Cardinal Wolsey

Lady Anne, what are you doing here?

Anne Boleyn

I have an audience with His Majesty?

Cardinal Wolsey

What would a silly girl like you have to say to a king?

Well, the King is plainly in love with you. Don't you see, niece... It makes a man, any man... extremely vulnerable.

Thomas Boleyn

How do you like your charge, sweetheart?

Anne Boleyn

I... At first, I confess, I did not like it so much. I did not care for the King, but now, I... Now I...

Anne, it would be wise for you not to be fooled by your own masquerade. It is your duty to use his love to our advantage in supplanting Wolsey.

Thomas Boleyn

The Cardinal stands between us... and everything. And it is now in your power to do him a great hurt, and we expect you to do so.

King Henry

Ah! Your Excellence, allow me to introduce...

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.

Anne Boleyn

(smiles, answering in French) But Frenchmen tell all ladies that they are beautiful- that is also a crime, is it not? I have a gift for you.

For me?

Anne Boleyn

For you, Monsieur, absolutely. (George Boleyn leads over a large wolfhound) This dog is very fast (the Ambassador sticks his hand out to pet it and it growls)... and very formidable.

(in English) What's his name?

Anne Boleyn

Wolsey. (Henry laughs)

King Henry VIII

For a while, I shall have to share Katherine's table, and sometimes her bed.

Anne Boleyn

Her bed!

King Henry

It's nothing. My lawyers have just advised me that to do otherwise might risk counter-suits. I could be seen to be acting against her conjugal rights.

Anne Boleyn

You think it's nothing, to go back to bed with your wife?

King Henry

What do you think is going to happen?

Anne Boleyn

What usually happens.

King Henry

Wolsey promises me I will have a divorce by summer.

Anne Boleyn

Promises are easy.

Thomas Cromwell

(smiles) Lady Anne.

Anne Boleyn

Master Cromwell. Do you... do you have a message from the King?

Thomas Cromwell

...I think we understand each other. A mutual friend- a Mr. Fish, now living in exile in Holland- has sent me a gift for you. (hands her a book)

Anne Boleyn

What is it, Master Cromwell?

Thomas Cromwell

"The Obedience of the Christian Man"... by William Tyndale. It contains many good criticisms of the Papacy; you'll find it most illuminating. But, always and ever, be cautious as to whom you show this. You must know it would be accounted heresy even to possess it. And, Wolsey is still keen enough to prosecute heretics, as we are called... who embrace the true religion.

Anne Boleyn

I will. And God bless you, Master Cromwell.

Anne Boleyn

You know I sometimes wish that all Spaniards were at the bottom of the sea.

Mistress Boleyn, you should not abuse the Queen's honor with such language!

Anne Boleyn

I care nothing for Katherine. I would rather see her hanged than acknowledge her as my mistress!

King Henry VIII

Have I made you unhappy?

Anne Boleyn

No, I would only be unhappy if you ever stopped loving me.

King Henry

London would have to melt into the Thames first.

Henry VIII

That's enough!

Anne Boleyn

No, you told me that we would always be truthful with one another! You said it was the definition of love!

Henry VIII

Then here's the truth. You must shut your eyes and endure [contemptuous] like your betters have done before you!

Anne Boleyn

[angrily] How can you say that to me!? Don't you know I love you a thousand times more than Catherine ever did!?

Henry VIII

[stands up, furious] AND DON'T YOU KNOW THAT I CAN DRAG YOU DOWN AS QUICKLY AS I RAISED YOU!? T'is lucky you have your bed already, madam, for if you did not, I would not give it to you a second time! [moves to leave, but stops] Francis won't accept the betrothal.

Anne Boleyn

Why?

Henry VIII

[angrily] Why do you think!? Because he, and the Pope, and the Emperor ARE ALL AGREED she is a bastard, and you are not my wife!