- Charles Brandon: Your Majesty, I know what we've both lost. We've lost our youth. there's nothing in the world that can ever return it to us.
- Sir Francis Bryan: [to Anne] You know, the less I know about your husband, the more he fascinates me.
- Sir Henry Pole: [to Edward seymour] You know, my Lord, this is the truth. The King never made a man, but he destroyed him again, so take a care, my lord.
- King Henry VIII: [to the French Ambassador] You have ten seconds to get out of my court, or I will beat you as the dog you are!
- King Henry VIII: [Final lines after the last of Cardinal Pole's family has been executed] There you are, Cardinal Pole. Now... eat your heart.
- [to Cromwell]
- John Lambert: Oh, Thomas. I see now what it takes for a man to make his way in this world. He must make a practice of hypocrisy