Bash: You don't believe there's a dark, malignant power in the woods?
Nostradamus: Nature is not malignant.

Politics, back-stabbing, murder--just another day at French court.

Mary

Page: Lady Kenna requests a visit, your majesty.
King Henry: No.
Page: She requests that I inform you that she's naked under her robe.
King Henry: Send her in.

Must I do everything? Shall I catch my head in my own hands, too?

Queen Catherine

Marie de Guise: Mary may be Scotland's queen, but I am its king.
Queen Catherine: Has Scotland noticed that its king has rather overexposed breasts?

Marie de Guise: Marry Francis--not some bastard who might be king some day.
Mary: His name is Sebastian.

So I sent you here to wed a king and find you engaged to a bastard.

Marie de Guise

That girl is broken. She is more animal than human. The greatest mercy would be to have her put down.

Queen Catherine

Mary: Despite what you may think, I never intended to harm your family. I only wanted to save Francis.
Queen Catherine: I wish I could believe that.

I suppose I'll have to get used to other people deciding what I want for my children. They'll be out of my care shortly, when I'm dead.

Queen Catherine

Sooner or later, blood will be spilled. It's just a matter of whose.

Lord Hugo

Oh, good--more sanctimonious talk from my self-appointed redeemer.

Queen Catherine

Reign Season 1 Quotes

My dear, this was not an act of passion. It was treason.

Queen Catherine

Love is irrelevant to people like us.

Francis