A character in Elizabeth (1998)

Norfolk quotes from Elizabeth (1998)

Christopher Eccleston

Scenes with Norfolk

4 scenes
Servant

Your Grace, Protestants are already returning from abroad.

Norfolk

Yes. And have made plans to massacre every Catholic in England. There would be butchery indeed if such a plan were even conceivable.

Norfolk's Man

They say Walsingham will return from France.

Norfolk

Walsingham is nothing! (to servant) Be sure he does not.

Walsingham

Your Grace is arrested. You must go with these men to the Tower.

Norfolk

I must do nothing by your orders. I am Norfolk.

Walsingham

You were Norfolk. The dead have no titles. You were the most powerful man in England and could have been greater still but you had not the courage to be loyal. Only the conviction of your own vanity.

Norfolk

I think, Walsingham, a man's courage is in the manner of his death. I am content to die for my beliefs. So cut off my head and make me a martyr. The people will always remember it.

Walsingham

No...they will forget.

Norfolk
[about Elizabeth]

She is just a child and yet still you piss yourselves!

Norfolk
[to Mary, on her deathbed, as she refuses to sign a warrant for Elizabeth's execution]

Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?

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