Borgia (TV Series)

Pax Vobiscum (2013)

John Doman: Rodrigo Borgia

Quotes 

• Rodrigo Borgia : Welcome to Rome, eminence. We trust the city agrees with you.

  John Morton : Holiness, if only I could abandon my life in London to the wiles of this most... beauteous country.

  Rodrigo Borgia : The English always have an irrational love for Italy.

  John Morton : It is the food. You have gnocchi and ravioli, I England, we have mutton.

• Rodrigo Borgia : I understand. You're embarrassed being in proximity to a former husband and his new bride, as well as Alfonso D'Este with whom you shared a flirtation, and *his* new bride, while you are alone.

  Lucrezia Borgia : Giovanni and Alfonso almost came to blows over me. And now I am of less interest to them than an empty bottle of wine. Do you blame me for my agido?

• Giulia Farnese : Lucrezia seems more disturbed by the presence of Alfonso, than the disappearance of her child.

  Rodrigo Borgia : What are you implying?

  Giulia Farnese : I imply nothing. I merely observe.

  Rodrigo Borgia : Lucrezia's bewildered. Her son is now her brother.

  Giulia Farnese : I either case, she should show concern. When she thought Cesare might die, Lucrezia was bereft.

  Rodrigo Borgia : I worry less about Cesare's physical death than that of his spirit.

• Rodrigo Borgia : Killing a man with a pen is no easier than with a sword.

  Francesc Gacet : You have sent many men to their deaths.

  Rodrigo Borgia : But not this man.