“Truth and Justice” quotes from The Tudors

Margaret, you and I must stay in the king's good graces or we are nothing. Let him marry who he wishes.

Princess Margaret

That was always your philosophy, wasn't it Charles? So very cynical. Is that why you keep company with that devil Boleyn?

Charles Brandon

You liked him enough once, when he helped us back to court... Or were you just being cynical?

Princess Margaret

I didn't see all of his game. Now I do. I despise him.

Charles Brandon

So do I. But I hate Wolsey more. It's a marriage of expedience.

Princess Margaret

Rather like ours.

Charles Brandon

No, I loved you.

Princess Margaret

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

Cardinal Campeggio

I have received a petition from the dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk and Lord Boleyn, saying the divorce has an overwhelming support of the people of England.

Thomas More

As Your Eminence would quickly discover if he stepped outside these doors and saw the people, that is a manifest lie. On the contrary, the people love their queen and they have every reason to do so.

Cardinal Wolsey

Your Majesty, I beg that you yield to the King's will.

Queen Katherine

And what is his will?

Cardinal Wolsey

As His Eminence proposes, that you join a religious community of your choosing and take a vow of perpetual chastity.

Queen Katherine

You speak to me of chastity. Have you not a mistress and two children, Your Eminence?

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.

Cardinal Wolsey

[to Cardinal Campeggio] Let me make certain things plain to you. If you do not grant the King his divorce, papal authority in England will be annihilated. You should remember, the greater part of Germany has already become estranged from Rome, the same thing could happen here. It would mean the total ruin of the kingdom.

Queen Katherine

(kneels to the King) My lord, (Henry tries to force her to rise, but she remains on her knees) 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 council. I flee to you, as head of justice in this realm. I call 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. (She rises, curtsies to the King, and departs the court)