Mary Queen of Scots 2018 quotes

Queen Elizabeth I

I was jealous. Your beauty. Your bravery. Your motherhood. You seemed to surpass me in every way. But now I see there is no cause for envy. Your gifts are your downfall.

What now, sister?

Queen Elizabeth I

You will still have my protection. Under my terms.

Until you have me killed?

Queen Elizabeth I

I will do no such thing.

Wouldn't you? As Henry killed your mother?

Queen Elizabeth I

I am not my father.

But, you share his blood.

Queen Elizabeth I

As long as you do not provoke my enemies, you have nothing to fear. Your fate rests in your own hands.

If I seek to help your enemies, tis only because you pushed me to their arms. And should you murder me, remember that you murder your sister - and you murder your Queen.

Be wary of these men. Their love is not the same as their respect.

Elizabeth I

England is not Scotland.

Elizabeth I

How cruel men are.

It is enough my own Lords treat me as though I'm but a girl. I will not be treated as such by Elizabeth. I will be the woman she is not. I shall produce an heir, unlike her barren self.

Elizabeth I

Only with suffering do we know joy.

You have not betrayed your nature. I cannot fault you for succumbing to his charms as I did. But we must be more careful now.