- Lucrezia Borgia: [Clearly angry and humiliated that she has to consummate her marriage in front of witnesses] The act may be done in the night, but I will have blood for this!
- Abbess: [after Versucci has returned a deed to the abbey] You're a strange messenger to bring such good tidings. You look like a man in a hurry. What is it you're hurrying from, Father?
- Cardinal Versucci: Oh, at first I thought I was hurrying from, but now I rather think I'm hurrying towards...
- Abbess: Towards God?
- Cardinal Versucci: [Soberly] Towards whatever destiny I have wrought for myself.