Popular Reign Quotes
Mary: Oh spare me your lies and excuses! You're not the man that I fell in love with and you're not the King I want to rule beside. You are a coward!
Francis: Mary, everything that I have done...
Mary: Enough, enough! I gave you a chance, I waited for the man I fell in love with to return, but that man is dead and I am finished waiting for him!
Francis: If that is what you truly believe then perhaps you should return to Scotland. Leave me. Leave France.
I may have given up on trying to understand you, but I will not give up on France.
Mary
Bash: Careful brother. If you push Mary too hard, you might not be able to win her back.
Francis: I'd rather she were alive and in Scotland than here and dead.
Ahhh. Rise and shine, Claude. The only people in best past noon are drunks and reprobates.
Catherine
So you're going to let some man prod at me while others watch to marry some Bavarian nobody?
Claude
Conde: A minister much beloved by his flock. The people know nothing of the dire threat he has made. If the minister is killed, the people can use his death as justification for almost any bad act. They would create...
Mary: A martyr.
Conde: And his death would inflame even the most pacifist of Protestants.
Catherine, I know things have been tense, but you have a living daughter who needs your affection now. You say you love Claude, well give her some evidence of it before you send her away. You owe her that much.
Bash
I didn't hear from you about my offer, though attempting to frame me for treason should be reason enough.
Narcisse
Oh the things I have done for you, how I have protected you. You think that I don't love you. You don't see! In my way I have mothered you more than any of my children.
Catherine
You did this to us, to France. For all that you claim you're trying to protect us, I have lost all faith in you and the man I thought you were.
Mary
The only alliance I'm interested is temporary, delicious and bad.
Claude
Conde: Now I feel a creeping sense of unease.
Mary: Because you've know me. I ask for things. And I'm asking you if you will become a symbol, for all of France. Would you consider marrying the Princess, Claude.
