The Six Wives of Henry VIII (UK) - Episode Quotes

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII (UK) Quotes

	Unknown Episode: Bishop Gardiner: Oh, Mistress Askew. I'll be your friend. Anne Askew: Thus said Judas.
	Unknown Episode: Catherine Parr: My lord, I do not see your children in court. Henry VIII: My children? Catherine Parr: They say you have put aside the Lady Mary and the Lady Elizabeth because the sight of them troubles you. Henry VIII: They say? Who says? Catherine Parr: It is said, my lord. Henry VIII: I love my daughters! Henry VIII: I'll bring them back, Cate, if you will mother them. Catherine Parr: Sire? Henry VIII: Oh, by Our Lady, madam, are we playing tennis? Will you marry me? Henry VIII: Well, madam, you knew that I would ask you. Catherine Parr: Yes, sire. Henry VIII: I told Cranmer to prepare you, and the Bishop Winchester. Catherine Parr: They prayed with me, sire. Henry VIII: Oh, God, did it need praying over?
	Unknown Episode: Henry VIII: So young, so beautiful... yet so corrupt.
	Unknown Episode: Henry VIII: You must surely know that a fresh husband is expected to do more than just look at his bride. Catherine Howard: Lady Rochford's husband spent the night in prayer. Henry VIII: Had I been Lady Rochford's husband, I would have done the same!
	Unknown Episode: Anne of Cleves: I could call myself Your Majesty's most loyal and obedient sister.
	Unknown Episode: Henry VIII: I like her not.
	Unknown Episode: Anne of Cleves: I would rather comfort a shamed child than save a dozen churches.
	Unknown Episode: Henry VIII: Princess Madeleine? Thomas Cromwell: Yes, Your Majesty? Henry VIII: Or this Mary de Guise? Thomas Cromwell: Already spoken for by your nephew James, sir. Henry VIII: Well, does that matter? Yes, perhaps.
	Unknown Episode: Jane Seymour: [referring to Robert Aske's rebellion] I beg you, sir, by the deep love I bear you, I beg you to restore the abbeys. This can only be God's judgment for putting them down! Henry VIII: God and my conscience are on perfectly good terms, madam. And if you wish to follow Mistress Boleyn's end, you will not meddle in my affairs!
	Unknown Episode: Henry VIII: [to Jane] If you had your way, my little nun, every prisoner in the kingdom would go free!
	Unknown Episode: Lady Rochford: I married a jelly. George, Viscount Rochford: And I a tight-lipped bitch!
	Unknown Episode: Anne Boleyn: I am innocent, that is sure. And I am a victim. That, too, is sure. This whole mockery is unworthy of you, uncle. It is unworthy of you as representative of my gentle husband. This trial is no trial, but a signature on a document. The poorest subject is given justice that I am denied. I am the Queen and entitled to better than you have given me. Accusations, papers, lies are easy means of denying the truth to a court of men. But the truth shall be known in that court which shall judge us all in time. I am sorry for you, Cromwell, for in condemning me, you condemn yourself elsewhere. Give your verdict, gentlemen, but remember I am your Queen.
	Unknown Episode: Lady Boleyn: The King will remember what you are to him. Anne Boleyn: They're not building that scaffold for nothing. Lady Boleyn: I am sure he will remember. Anne Boleyn: I know my husband! He is a hunter... Lady Boleyn: Madam... Anne Boleyn: When he has sported, he will kill. 'Tis his nature. And I am the prey.
	Unknown Episode: Anne Boleyn: I would like to confess to Cranmer. He shall bear that burden. He shall know my innocence.
	Unknown Episode: Thomas Cromwell: Go and hear her confess. Better you than some priest with a conscience!
	Unknown Episode: Anne Boleyn: [after confessing her innocence] You will say nothing of what happened today? Archbishop Thomas Cranmer: I can say nothing. Anne Boleyn: And you know my innocence, for what it is. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer: I wish to God I had never known.
	Unknown Episode: Catherine of Aragon: While my husband lives, I am his wife. His own true wife.
	Unknown Episode: Henry VIII: I can bring a hundred learned men to prove that you are not my wife! Catherine of Aragon: Bring your hundred learned men! I can bring a thousand learned men from all over Europe to prove that I am you wife, I always have been your wife and I always will be!
	Unknown Episode: Catherine of Aragon: I would rather die than go back to Spain unmarried. I would rather die!
	Unknown Episode: Henry VIII: I promise you that no one will be unkind to you again. Word of a king. Catherine of Aragon: I would rather have word of a Henry. Henry VIII: Word of a Henry!