Dudley: You blush, Lady Knollys. Are you in love?
Isabel Knollys
No, my lord.
Dudley Then you should be, or waste all that beauty.
Played by Joseph Fiennes 
Elizabeth (1998) · 45 quotes
Elizabeth (1998) · 45 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Elizabeth (1998): in 8 of its 45 quotes
Most scenes with: Elizabeth (6)
Scenes with Dudley
8 scenes Dudley 
He then said that this King would marry me but would not expect to share my bed more than two or three times a year.
Dudley As much as that?
Well, he...he is enraptured.
Dudley Naturally.
But... his affairs would otherwise keep him in Spain.
Dudley Then the King is a fool. What could ever be important enough to keep him from your bed?
Robert, you should not say such things.
Dudley Then I shall only think them.
Dudley When you are Queen...
I am not... I am not Queen yet.
Dudley You will be. Elizabeth, Queen of England. A court to worship you. A country to obey you. Poems written celebrating your beauty. Music composed in your honour, and they will be nothing to you. I will mean nothing to you.
Dudley All that I am it is you.
Such piercing eyes! And very indiscreet!
Dudley My true love has my heart and I have hers. My heart in me keeps her and me in one. My heart in her, her thoughts and senses guide. She loves my heart for once it was her own. I cherish hers because in me it bides. My true love has my heart and I have hers. Marry me.
On a night such as this, could any woman say "no"?
Dudley On a night such as this could a Queen say "no"?
Does not a Queen sit under the same stars as any other woman?
Dudley For God's sake, you are still my Elizabeth.
I am not your Elizabeth! I am no man's Elizabeth. And if you think to rule here, you are mistaken. I will have one mistress here... and no master!
Dudley It matters nothing to me. I can live without her most happily. Better than I could live with her. I have no need of her love. Have I not suffered enough already for loving her and showing it?
I envy you, my Lord. To love a woman so deeply.
Dudley Monseigneur... envy no man for that. Such love is hateful. It tears the soul apart. Envy a man who has never known such love.
Dudley You are in the greatest danger. You must believe me. But you have a friend. Someone who can guarantee your safety and your throne.
A friend?
Dudley The King of Spain.
Dudley He would marry you.
Only to make an alliance. Nothing more. He would not expect to...
Dudley He would live in Spain.
Why do you do this, Robert?
Dudley Because I love you. And though you will not see me, I am the only one who would care for you.
You love me so much you would have me be your whore?
Dudley For God's sake, I do this for us. I ask you to save some part of us!
Lord Robert, you may make whores of my Ladies but you shall not make one of me.
Dudley Your Majesty...
They are all gone to the Tower. Your friends. Tell me, how should I serve thee, Robert?
Dudley My course is run.
Just tell me why.
Dudley Why? Madam, is it not plain enough to you? It is no easy thing to be loved by the Queen. It would corrupt the soul of any man. Now, for God's sake, kill me.
No...I think rather to let you live.
Madam, that is not wise. Lord Robert has committed treason. He must be made example of.
And I will make an example of him. He shall be kept alive to always remind me of how close I came to danger.
