Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

William Houston: Don Guerau De Spes

Quotes 

• Queen Elizabeth I : Go back to your rathole! Tell Philip I fear neither him, nor his priests, nor his armies. Tell him if he wants to shake his little fist at us, we're ready to give him such a bite he'll wish he'd kept his hands in his pockets!

  Don Guerau De Spes : You see a leaf fall, and you think you know which way the wind blows. Well, there is a wind coming, Madame, that will sweep away your pride.

  [turns to leave with his ministers] 

  Queen Elizabeth I : I, too, can command the wind, sir! I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare if you dare to try me!

• Don Guerau De Spes : Excuse me, Your Majesty. The air has become stale. I am sensitive to the smell of an open sewer.

  [He stares at Raleigh and leaves] 

  Queen Elizabeth I : [to Raleigh]  I cannot accept the fruits of piracy, Mr. Raleigh.

  Walter Raleigh : Philip of Spain is no friend of England, Majesty. The more gold I take from him, the safer you will be.

  Queen Elizabeth I : Well, well - a political pirate.

• Queen Elizabeth I : It is a Spanish plan. A plan of my onetime brother-in-law, your King, to attack my country!

  Don Guerau De Spes : Your country? It is my country that is under attack. Your so-called brothers, your pirates, attack our merchant ships daily and you, why, you think we don't know where their orders come from? The whole world knows these pirates sail up the Thames all the way - to your Royal Bed!

  Queen Elizabeth I : You will leave my presence, sir!