The Borgias (TV Series)
The Poisoned Chalice (2011)
François Arnaud: Cesare Borgia
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Quotes
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Micheletto : It seems someone as pitiless as you...
Cesare Borgia : Yes... ?
Micheletto : ...needs someone as pitiless as me.
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Rodrigo Borgia : I am Rodrigo Borgia no longer. I am Alexander Sixtus.
Cesare Borgia : But you know who you are. My father, still.
Rodrigo Borgia : I am no longer "I." I am "we." We felt so alone out there. When the crown touched our head. Humbled, even. Even frightened.
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Cesare Borgia : That poison was meant for us.
Rodrigo Borgia : You don't poison the Pope!
Cesare Borgia : Do you know what the gossips are calling you? "The mitred ape". Half of Rome is waiting to celebrate your demise.
Rodrigo Borgia : You would poison a dying dog! Not the heir to Saint Peter!
Cesare Borgia : The idea offends you, then?
Rodrigo Borgia : It offends me, it offends nature, it offends God Himself!
Cesare Borgia : Then God will take his revenge.
Rodrigo Borgia : Yes he will... with *our* help!
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Woman in Bed : [Finding out Cesare is a cleric] There was nothing ecclesiatical about last night.
Cesare Borgia : By night? By night I am who I want to be. By day I am thus.
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Giuliano Della Rovere : And what do you do with a monkey that bites you?
Cesare Borgia : You ring its neck.