The Tudors (TV Series)

Death of a Monarchy (2010)

Henry Cavill: Charles Brandon

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• 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.

• Charles Brandon : But as to religion, I never read the Gospels and never shall. I'm sure they enlighten you, but I prefer them to remain mysterious. As to the promise of a better world, I can only say that England was merry before, and, all things considered, and with all things as they used to be in times past.

  Edward Seymour : Your Grace, if I do not have your support, may I ask if you will act against me?

  Charles Brandon : I'm not sure if this is any answer, my Lord Hertford, but I've always been drawn to a phrase used by the French peasants: "Praise the God of all, drink the wine, and let the world be the world."

• Charles Brandon : [Feverish and in bed]  Has the dawn come yet?

  Brigitte Rousselot : Not yet, not yet.

  Charles Brandon : [Breathing heavily]  I hate the night. It makes me think of perpetual night.

• Charles Brandon : [Answering a question from Edward Seymour about whether he would take sides in, or hold back from, brewing political strife]  There's an old French saying: Praise the God of all; drink the wine; and let the world be the world.