You are my eldest son. It is your destiny to follow in my foot steps.

Pope Alexander

What the Holy Church needs at this juncture is someone who can ensure its survival by whatever means necessary.

Pope Alexander

Micheletto: I believe trust needs to be earned.
Cesare: Perhaps. Perhaps it has been.

Oh what would Rome be without a good plot?

Pope Alexander

Don't challenge me! And never, ever within these sacred walls!

Pope Alexander

This passage goes both ways. Your Holyness must feel free to visit if God's love were ever to leave him wanting.

Giulia

Am I Cardinal already?

Cesare

Pope Alexander: The others bought and sold. We merely proved ourselves better at the game, but we draw the line at murder. Do we not?
Cesare: Orsini drew no such line.

Della Rovere: And what do you do with a monkey that bites you?
Cesare: You ring its neck.

You would surprise yourself if such destiny ever brushed against you.

Rodrigo

I do tend to win whatever battles I fight.

Rodrigo

Vanozza: It's in the hands of God.
Cesare: It's in the hands of the College of Cardinals, Mother, not quite the same thing.

The Borgias Season 1 Quotes

Woman: You're a cleric?
Cesare: Didn't you notice?
Woman: There was nothing ecclesiastical about you last night.

You will fight like dogs over this corpse I leave, for this throne of Saint Peter's, but it was pure once.

Pope Innocent