- Queen Catherine of Aragon: Do you know something, Mr. Brandon... if I had to choose between extreme happiness and extreme sorrow, I would always choose sorrow.
- [laughs ironically]
- Queen Catherine of Aragon: When you are happy, you forget... You forget about spiritual things. You forget about God.
- Anne Boleyn: I'm so sorry.
- King Henry VIII: You and I are both young and by god's grace, boys will follow.
- [Anne nods in agreement]
- Pope Paul III: [Deciding on whether to approve Thomas Cranmer as Archbishop of Canterbury] We want to give the English Church the opportunity to return to its first allegiance, and our true faith. We want to please the King. We want to make him beholden to us. What better way to please him than to approve the appointment of a nobody? After all, what harm can a nobody inflict upon our Holy Church?