Elizabeth: The Golden Age Quotes

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is a TV show that first aired in 1970 . Elizabeth: The Golden Age stopped airing in 1970.

It features Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Jonathan Cavendish as producer, A. R. Rahman, and Craig Armstrong in charge of musical score, and Remi Adefarasin as head of cinematography.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of Elizabeth: The Golden Age is 114 minutes long. Elizabeth: The Golden Age is distributed by Universal Pictures.

The cast includes: Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh, Geoffrey Rush as Sir Francis Walsingham, Laurence Fox as Sir Christopher Hatton, John Shrapnel as Lord Howard, and Adam Godley as William Walsingham.

Elizabeth: The Golden Age Quotes

Laurence Fox as Sir Christopher Hatton

• (Laurence Fox) "Be warned by the atrocities in France. God-fearing Christians murdered by Papist cut-throats inflamed by hatred of the truth."
• (John Shrapnel) "We know the Catholics take their orders from Spain. The Spanish speak openly of Mary Stuart as Queen of England in waiting."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Mary Stuart is a Queen cast out by her own ungrateful nation."
• (Laurence Fox) "With respect, Majesty: a Catholic Queen. Your loyal Protestant supporters don't understand why Mary Stuart lives under our protection at our expense. Very considerable expense."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Mary Stuart is my cousin. She is our guest. And she is under our control."
• (John Shrapnel) "But while she lives, Majesty, she is a beacon that draws our enemies' eyes and hopes."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "While she lives?"
• (Laurence Fox) "She is the poison at the heart of England. The poison must be cut out."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "You'd have me make a martyr of her. What is her crime?"

• (Laurence Fox) "An Austrian alliance would keep France quiet."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "And put Philip on a leash."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "I've become almost enthusiastic. Send for him."

Clive Owen as Sir Walter Raleigh

• (Clive Owen) "Forgive me, Majesty, my horse doesn't seem to know his place yet."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Have you ever known your place, Mr. Raleigh?"

• (Clive Owen) "I think it must be hard for so great a Queen to know the simple pleasure of being liked for herself."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Now you grow dull."

• (Queen Elizabeth I) "In some other world, in some other time, could you have loved me?"
• (Clive Owen) "I know only one world and in this world, I have loved you."

• (Queen Elizabeth I) "I like you, Mr. Raleigh."
• (Clive Owen) "And I like you."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "You know, of course, that when I like a man, I reward him."
• (Clive Owen) "I have heard that."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "And what have you to say about it?"
• (Clive Owen) "Reward my mission, majesty, not me."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Is the mission not the man?"
• (Clive Owen) "Then you leave me free to like you in return."

• (Clive Owen) "We mortals have many weaknesses; we feel too much, hurt too much or too soon we die, but we do have the chance of love."

• (Clive Owen) "A puddle in the way, Majesty."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "A puddle."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Puddle."

• (Clive Owen) "You like your ladies to jump at your command?"
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Do you think that way? To tell you the truth, I'm very very tired of always being in control."
• (Clive Owen) "Nonsense."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "What?"
• (Clive Owen) "You eat and drink control."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Is that so?"

• (Clive Owen) "Majesty, this is not the Queen I love and serve."

• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Do we discover the New World or does the New World discover us?"
• (Clive Owen) "You speak like a true explorer."

• (Clive Owen) "How am I to win the Queen's favor?"
• (Elizabeth Throckmorton) "Why should I tell you that?"
• (Clive Owen) "I've little enough to offer, but whatever I have to give, ask and it's yours."
• (Elizabeth Throckmorton) "Say what you mean to say as plainly as possible. All men flatter the Queen in hope of advancement. Pay her the compliment of truth."

• (Clive Owen) "We have named it Virginia, after our Virgin Queen."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) ""Virginia"? And when I am married, will you rename it to "Conjugia"?"

• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Are you here to tell me I must murder a Queen?"
• (Clive Owen) "I would never presume to tell my Queen what to do. Only you know where your duty lies."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Was it my father's duty to murder my mother? She was a Queen, for a time. Oh, I would be loath to die such so bloody a death."
• (Clive Owen) "Since when were you so afraid?"
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "I'm always afraid."
• (Clive Owen) "Kill a Queen and all Queens are mortal. We mortals have many weaknesses: we feel too much, hurt too much, all too soon we die, but we do have the chance of love."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Do we? I have given England my life. Must she also have my soul?"

• (Clive Owen) "Why be afraid of tomorrow when today is all we have?"

• (Clive Owen) "I have never known a woman like you."

Adam Godley as William Walsingham

• (Adam Godley) "We will all be judged in the end."

Geoffrey Rush as Sir Francis Walsingham

• (Queen Elizabeth I) "We shall have to look out a husband for you soon, Bess."
• (Elizabeth Throckmorton) "Not too soon, my lady."
• (Geoffrey Rush) "There are husbands to be had."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Don't you want to be married?"
• (Elizabeth Throckmorton) "I'll want the marriage if I want the man."

• (Geoffrey Rush) "Mary Stuart must die."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "MUST? Mary Stuart must die? Where is written? Who says so? Have I ordered it?"
• (Geoffrey Rush) "Majesty, this is no time for mercy."
• (Queen Elizabeth I) "Don't preach at me, old man."

• (Queen Elizabeth I) "How much longer do you think I can play this game, Francis?"
• (Geoffrey Rush) "Virginity is an asset that holds its value well."

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