Mary, Queen of Scots:
[
to Queen Elizabeth I] I might have known you'd come to gloat like this - stealthily, under cover of night.
Queen Elizabeth I:
You were born too close to my throne.
Mary, Queen of Scots:
I have loved as a woman loves, lost as a woman loses... My son shall sit on the throne! My son shall rule England! Still, still, I win!
Queen Elizabeth I:
Rebellion! How I hate that word!
Mary, Queen of Scots:
[
to Bothwell] What's my throne? I'd put a torch to it for any one of the days with you.
Moray:
I have only followed my conscience.
Mary, Queen of Scots:
I hope you have one.
Mary, Queen of Scots:
War! Is that all you men know?
Bothwell:
Someday you'll meet a man who won't take no for an answer.
Mary Beaton:
And...?
Bothwell:
And I'll be the godfather.
Bothwell:
Dark or bright, I'll always follow your star, Mary.
Darnley:
You never can count on a woman. Marry her, and she turns to ice.
Bothwell:
[
to Mary] You're the Queen of Scotland, and you've let the woman in you take your senses!
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