The White Princess Quotes
What have they done to us? We are their creatures.
Lizzie [to Henry, about their mothers]
Henry: You are the Queen of England now. Do you feel any different?
Lizzie: I feel as if I've aged a thousand years.
If my mother raises an army, how can I choose between my mother and my son?
Lizzie
He spent his life in brothels and cowsheds. What would he know of politics?
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy [about Henry]
Henry: I have commissioned his own badge for him. [unfurls a drawing] The red rose and the white, combined. A sign of our new unity. I'd hoped for your approval.
Lizzie: [scoffs] Our mothers will not give it. I think they like the war between them.
Lady Margaret: You are taking counsel...from your wife?
Henry: From somebody who knows the will of England.
Guard your heart, my Lizzie. The child is not your own. He belongs to the throne.
Elizabeth
The time has come to be a York [rips letter of peace from Henry Tudor into pieces] and take a stand.
Duchess Cecily
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy [about Henry]: What does he do to inspire such loyalty?
Jasper: When he has a goal, he does not waiver. He was brave in exile, he is strong. He has greater loyalty than any man I've ever known.
Margaret: Then he would make someone a very fine dog.
I have no love of war, but I do not like your king.
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy [to Jasper]
I will have faith in God, and God alone. Mortal men must earn it.
Henry
I don't think I should like to be queen, the clothes are all too ugly.
Cecily [to Lizzie]
