[on marriage]
I do not think you should lecture me on that my lord, since you yourself have been twice divorced. And are now upon your third wife!. [Opposing ministers laugh uproariously]
Elizabeth
Cate Blanchett · 26 quotes
Walsingham
Geoffrey Rush · 9 quotes
Dudley
Joseph Fiennes · 8 quotes
Cecil
Richard Attenborough · 4 quotes
Norfolk
Christopher Eccleston · 4 quotes
Anjou
3 quotes
Most scenes together: Elizabeth & Dudley (6), Elizabeth & Walsingham (3), Elizabeth & Cecil (3)
Elizabeth quotes
Page 3 of 3[to a priest he is having tortured]
Tell me, what is God to you? Has he abandoned you? Is he such a worldly god that he must play at politics in the filth of conspiracy? Is he not divine? Tell me the truth, as if you were face to face with him now. I'm a patient man, Father.
[to Elizabeth]
Madam, if I may. A prince should never flinch from being blamed for acts of ruthlessness which are necessary for safeguarding the state and their own person. You must take these things so much to heart that you do not fear to strike. Even the very nearest that you have if they be implicated.
A man will confess to anything...under torture.
Aye, but marry who, your grace? Would you give me some suggestion? For some say France and others Spain, and some cannot abide foreigners at all. So I am not sure how best to please you unless I married one of each.
Duc d'Anjou: [in French] Elizabeth is a witch...a witch...and her servant is the devil!
Each of you must vote according to your conscience. But remember this. In your hands, upon this moment, lies the future happiness of my people, and the peace of this realm. Let that be upon your conscience also.
I do not like wars. They have uncertain outcomes.
I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.
I say a prince should rather be slow to take action and should watch that he does not come to be afraid of his own shadow.
Kat...I have become a virgin.
Observe, Lord Burghley, I am married...to England.
There will be no more talk of marriage.
This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.
Tonight I think I die.