- Mary, Queen of Scots: [to Queen Elizabeth I] I might have known you'd come to gloat like this - stealthily, under cover of night.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.