The Tudors (TV Series)

Death of a Monarchy (2010)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers: King Henry VIII

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• King Henry VIII : [Voiceover prologue]  When we compare the present life of man on Earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like a swift flight of a single sparrow through a banquet hall on a winter's day. After a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came. Even so, man appears on Earth for a little while, but of what went before this life or what will follow, we know nothing.

• King Henry VIII : [Opening lines]  In these last days I've been thinking a great deal about loss. What loss, your grace, is to man most irrecoverable?

  Charles Brandon : His virtue.

  King Henry VIII : No, for by his actions, he may redeem his virtue.

  Charles Brandon : Then, his honor.

  King Henry VIII : No, for again he may find the means to recover it, even as a man recovers some fortune he has lost.

  Charles Brandon : Then I can't say, Your Majesty.

  King Henry VIII : Time, your grace. Of all losses, time is the most irrecuperable for it can never be redeemed.

• King Henry VIII : I'll tell you, my Lord Hertford, as long as Charles Brandon served me, h-he never betrayed a friend nor took unfair advantage of an enemy. Hmmm... which is more than I can say for anyone else at my court... I never thought he would die.

• King Henry VIII : This portrait is a lie!

• King Henry VIII : Master Holbein It is well done.