A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Antonio Bonvisi: My friend, you are looking at your herring as if you hate it.

Thomas More: There's nothing wrong with the herring. But, of Cardinal Wolsey, I will say only this. He has brought his fall on himself. He has drawn it all on himself. Land, money and titles. He's always had a greed for ruling over other men.

Thomas Cromwell: The Cardinal's a public man. Would you have him shrink from a public role?

Thomas More: Oh, I think it's a little late to read the Cardinal a lesson in humility. His real friends have tried long ago and been ignored.

Thomas Cromwell: And you count yourself a real friend, do you? I'll tell him. And by the blood of Christ, Lord Chancellor, he'll find it a consolation as he sits in exile and wonders why you slander him to the King.

Antonio Bonvisi: Gentlemen, please...

Thomas Cromwell: No, let's have this straight. Thomas here says, "I'd spend my life in the church if I had a choice. I'm devoted to things of the spirit. I care nothing for wealth. The world's esteem is nothing to me." So, how is it I come back to London and find you've become Lord Chancellor? Lord Chancellor. What's that? A fucking accident?

Thomas More: You're no friend of the Church, Thomas. You're a friend to one priest only. And he's the most corrupt in Christendom.