- Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: [about her divorce] Your Majesty, I beg that you yield to the King's will.
- Queen Catherine of Aragon: And what is his will?
- Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: As His Eminence proposes, that you join a religious community of your choosing and take a vow of perpetual chastity.
- Queen Catherine of Aragon: [discusted] You speak to me of chastity. Have you not a mistress and two children, Your Eminence?
- Queen Catherine of Aragon: [to Henry, at the trial] My Lord. Sir. I beseech you, for all the love that has been between us, let me have justice and right. Give me some pity and compassion for I am a poor women in a stranger born out of your dominion. I have no friends here and little council. I flee to you, as head of justice in this realm, I call God and all the world to witness that I have been to you a true, humble and obedient wife, ever comfortable to your will and pleasure. I have loved all those whom you have loved for your sake. Whether or not I had cause, whether they be my friends or enemies. By me you have had many children although it has pleased God to call them from this world. But when you had me at first
- [loudly]
- Queen Catherine of Aragon: I take God as my judge, I was a true maid without touch of man. And whether or not it be true, I put it to your conscience.
- King Henry VIII: I want you to go to Rome Mr. Cromwell. I want you to force his fucking holiness into submission. If necessary by telling him that if he does not grant me my fucking annulment, then England will withdraw its submission to Rome and I will withdraw my allegiance to him.
- Princess Margaret: [to her husband, Charles Brandon] You don't know the meaning of the word, Charles. You can love for perhaps a year, a month, a day, even for an hour. And in that hour, I believe you love as well and deeply as any man. But after that hour... you love another, and another. Your *love* is most generous where it is most hurtful.
- Cardinal Campeggio: I have received a petition from the dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk and Lord Boleyn, saying the divorce has an overwhelming support of the people of England.
- Sir Thomas More: As Your Eminence would quickly discover if he stepped outside these doors and saw the people, that is a manifest lie. On the contrary, the people love their queen and they have every reason to do so.