King Henry VIII

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King Henry VIII Quotes

	Season 3 / Episode 7: - Episode 307 King Henry VIII: I find her body out of such sorts, disordered and indisposed.
	Season 3 / Episode 5: - Episode 305 Jane Seymour: My love. King Henry VIII: My Queen [they kiss].
	Season 3 / Episode 4: - Episode 304 King Henry VIII: [Crying over Jane's dead body] Just because you have given me everything you promised, please don't leave me! My son needs his mother and I need my queen! [Sobbing]
	Season 3 / Episode 3: - Episode 303 King Henry VIII: [to a lord with a grievance against the court artist] I'll tell you frankly: if I had seven peasants, I could make seven lords. But if I had seven lords, I could not make ONE Holbein.
	Season 3 / Episode 2: - Episode 302 King Henry VIII: These wretched men have filled my whole realm with uproar! They have to, and will be punished for it.
	Season 3 / Episode 1: - Episode 301 Jane Seymour: Mary is so sweet and affectionate. You should bring her to court. Show her off. King Henry VIII: [appearing to be in deep thought] Hmm... Jane Seymour: Why will you no speak to me, Your majesty? King Henry VIII: [sighs] Because I'm disappointed Jane Seymour: Why? King Henry VIII: I'm dissapointed because you are not yet with child.
	Season 3 / Episode 1: - Episode 301 Jane Seymour: I would really like to meet your daughter, Anne. King Henry VIII: [smiles and walks over to her] Never speak of such matters again. [kisses her]
	Season 3 / Episode 1: - Episode 301 King Henry VIII: [in agony from his ulcer] I'll destroy them. [pauses] And after I've destroyed them, I'll destroy you Cromwell.
	Season 3 / Episode 1: - Episode 301 King Henry VIII: [to Jane Seymour] Don't speak of such matters again.
	Season 2 / Episode 8: - Episode 8 King Henry VIII: [Coming to hours after a jousting accident he whispers] Charles? Charles Brandon: Henry? He's alive! Ha ha ha! He's alive!
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Episode 4 Anne Boleyn: These are the jewels of the Queen of England. Anne Boleyn: I don't know what to say. King Henry VIII: Yes you do. Anne Boleyn: I love you, I love you so much, I love you with every fiber of my being. [Henry smiles] You have been so kind to me. Now let me be kind to you. [She gives Henry a "handy"]
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - Episode 1 Anne Boleyn: [about Katherine making Henry's shirts] You told me there was nothing intimate between you anymore. King Henry VIII: There isn't. What's intimate, they're just shirts for Gods sake! Anne Boleyn: No, they are not 'just shirts' they are you and me. They are you and her! It's so hard, when we are to be married but she's still here!
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - Episode 1 Anne Boleyn: [complaining to Henry about Katherine still making his shirts] They are you and me! They are you and her! King Henry VIII: Why does it matter? They're just shirts for God's sake Anne Boleyn: It's so hard when we're about to get married, and she's still here! King Henry VIII: Look, I've have more important things to worry about other than my shirts!
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - Episode 1 Anne Boleyn: [complaining to Henry about Katherine still making his shirts] They are you and me! They are you and her! King Henry VIII: Why does it matter? They're just shirts for God's sake Anne Boleyn: It's so hard when we're about to get married, and she's still here! King Henry VIII: Look, I've have more important things to worry about other than my shirts!
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - Episode 1 Anne Boleyn: [complaining to Henry about Katherine still making his shirts] They are you and me! They are you and her! King Henry VIII: Why does it matter? They're just shirts for God's sake Anne Boleyn: It's so hard when we're about to get married, and she's still here! King Henry VIII: Look, I've have more important things to worry about OTHER THAN MY SHIRTS!
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Episode 10 King Henry VIII: So you were a fucking virgin! That isn't the point!
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Episode 10 King Henry VIII: Have I made you unhappy? Anne Boleyn: No. I would only be unhappy if you ever stopped loving me. King Henry VIII: London would have to melt into the Thames first.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Episode 10 King Henry VIII: The need for reformation in the Church is manifest. The Emperor has a duty to promote it, as do I in my own domain. I'm glad we've had this opportunity to exchange opinions. Chapuys: [bowing] Your Majesty.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - Episode 9 Queen Catherine of Aragon: Have you no kind things to say? King Henry VIII: Kind? Queen Catherine of Aragon: To your wife, the mother of your child. You treat me so unkindly and in public neglect me. King Henry VIII: Katherine, you must accept the inevitable. The weight of academic opinion is against us. We were never legally man and wife. And the court will decide in my favour and if the court does not decide in my favour, I shall denounce the pope as a heretic and marry whom I please.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - Episode 9 King Henry VIII: Wolsey promises me I will have a divorce by summer. Anne Boleyn: Promises are easy.
	Season 1 / Episode 9: - Episode 9 King Henry VIII: Alright, so you were a fucking virgin! That's not the point!
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - Episode 8 King Henry VIII: I want you to go to Rome Mr. Cromwell. I want you to force his fucking holiness into submission. If necessary by telling him that if he does not grant me my fucking annulment, then England will withdraw its submission to Rome and I will withdraw my allegiance to him.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Episode 7 Queen Catherine of Aragon: [about the plague] And your fear of The Sweat is greater than your infatuation with your mistress? King Henry VIII: [annoyed] Katherine, she is not my mistress. I do not sleep with her. Not whilst you and I are still married.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Episode 7 King Henry VIII: [together with Anne Boleyn] Ah! Your Excellence, allow me to introduce... French Ambassador: Is this not Mademoiselle Anne? Enchanté. His Eminence, Cardinal Wolsey, has told me all about you, but he did not tell me how beautiful you are. For a Frenchman, that is almost a crime.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - Episode 6 King Henry VIII: [caressing Anne] Your neck. I love your neck.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - Episode 6 Anne Boleyn: Forgive me, I spoke of things I should not. King Henry VIII: No, no, I give you leave that we may always speak freely with each other, honestly, openly and with a true heart. For me, that is the true definition of love.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - Episode 6 King Henry VIII: [Challenging Charles to arm wrestle] If you can beat me, then you can come back to court.
	Season 1 / Episode 5: - Episode 5 King Henry VIII: [furiously] How dare you look at me! I am your Lord and Master, not your brother! You are both banished from court. You will relinquish your London houses. You will remove yourself from my sight. Do you understand? Princess Margaret: [bowing] Yes, Your Majesty. King Henry VIII: And Margaret... Princess Margaret: What? King Henry VIII: [warningly] I have yet to decide whether to make your bedmate a head shorter.
	Season 1 / Episode 5: - Episode 5 King Henry VIII: [embracing Anne, begging] Anne, I want to say something to you. If it pleases you to be my true loyal mistress and friend, to give yourself up to me body and soul, I promise, I'll take you as my only mistress. I won't have a thought or an affection for anyone else.
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Episode 4 King Henry VIII: [upon seeing the harm from the jousting accident] You almost lost an eye. Anthony Knivert: [laughingly] Never use that one much anyway.

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