"Mary of Guise: Go back to England, and take this to your Queen. Hm? [in French, to herself] English blood on French colors. [turns to her officer] Send him back to his Queen, and make sure he remains alive. Tell that bastard Queen not to send children to fight Mary of Guise!"

"Duc d'Anjou: [in French] Elizabeth is a witch...a witch...and her servant is the devil!"

"De la Quadra: [to Dudley] My lord, what will a man not do for love?"

"Arundel: War is a sin, but sometimes, a necessary one."

"Norfolk: [to Mary, on her deathbed, as she refuses to sign a warrant for Elizabeth's execution] Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?"

"Norfolk: [about Elizabeth] She is just a child and yet still you piss yourselves!"

"Sir Robert Dudley: [to Elizabeth] Remember who you are. Do not be afraid of them."

"To Norfolk The dead have no titles."

"[to a priest he is having tortured] Tell me, what is God to you? Has he abandoned you? Is he such a worldly god that he must play at politics in the filth of conspiracy? Is he not divine? Tell me the truth, as if you were face to face with him now. I'm a patient man, Father."

"[to Elizabeth] Madam, if I may. A prince should never flinch from being blamed for acts of ruthlessness which are necessary for safeguarding the state and their own person. You must take these things so much to heart that you do not fear to strike. Even the very nearest that you have if they be implicated."

"I say a prince should rather be slow to take action and should watch that he does not come to be afraid of his own shadow."

"Observe, Lord Burghley, I am married...to England."

"Kat...I have become a virgin."

"A man will confess to anything...under torture."

"There will be no more talk of marriage."

"[on marriage] I do not think you should lecture me on that my lord, since you yourself have been twice divorced. And are now upon your third wife!. [Opposing ministers laugh uproariously]"

"Aye, but marry who, your grace? Would you give me some suggestion? For some say France and others Spain, and some cannot abide foreigners at all. So I am not sure how best to please you unless I married one of each."

"I have no desire to make windows into men's souls."

"I do not like wars. They have uncertain outcomes."

"Tonight I think I die."

"I brought you flours."

"Kristin Chenoweth as Book Channel host"

"Linda Hunt - Dr. Mittag-Leffler"

"Tom Hulce - Dr. Cayly"

"Tony Hale - Dave"

"Queen Latifah - Penny Escher"

"Maggie Gyllenhaal - Ana Pascal"

"Dustin Hoffman - Professor Jules Hilbert"

"Emma Thompson - Karen Eiffel"

"Will Ferrell - Harold Crick"

"Harold Crick isn't ready to go. Full Stop."

"He's not crazy. He's just written that way."

"Truth is stranger than fiction."

"Harold Crick isn't ready to go. Period."

"Anarchists have a group? ... They assemble? ... Wouldn't that defeat the whole purpose?"

"Apology accepted. But only because you stammered."

"Get bent, taxman!"

"Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes."

"Meeting an insurance agent the day your policy runs out is coincidence. Getting a letter from the Emperor saying he's visiting is plot. Having your apartment eaten by a wrecking ball ... is something else entirely. Harold, you don't control your fate."

"'Little did he know', That means there's something he doesn't know, which means there's something you don't know, did you know that?"

"It's been a very revealing 10 seconds."

"I left my thimble and Socialist reading material at home."