Borgia (TV Series)

The Assumption (2013)

Mark Ryder: Cesare Borgia

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Fool : [on stage]  And so gentle souls, follow me now to a place where men are men, and cocks are... cocks.

  [audience laughs] 

  Fool : [with exaggerated bowing]  Welcome, Son of God. Or so he calls himself in all his godlessness.

  Son of God : I come to take my bride.

  [audience cheers] 

  Son of God : As is ordered by my father.

  Fool : [gasps]  Ordered by God...

  Princess : [distractedly adjusting her bodice] 

  Son of God : I am handsome and powerful! Kiss me, and you will swoon.

  Princess : [reaches for him] 

  Son of God : [reaches for her, but slips falls] 

  Cesare Borgia : [angrily unleashes his dogs, and the audience rushes out of the theatre] 

  Cesare Borgia : [to Geraldini]  You once said that I would have plays written about me, but you did not say what would happen to those who performed such plays.

• Goffredo Borgia : God, have mercy on the man who shot the arrow into my ass.

  Cesare Borgia : Let us wait to dispense our wrath until we know the facts.

  Goffredo Borgia : Wait? It is easy to wait when one can sit!

• Cesare Borgia : [realizing it is actually her]  Your lady, is she beautiful?

  Charlotte d'Albret : Some say.

  [turning away] 

  Charlotte d'Albret : Though here is a secret: She looks more innocent than she is.

  Cesare Borgia : You remind me of my sister.

  Charlotte d'Albret : And you remind me of no one else.

• Charlotte d'Albret : You know I already love you.

  Cesare Borgia : Love is mercurial.

  Charlotte d'Albret : We will see.

• Cesare Borgia : I have learned that often, one must lose a point to win the bigger match. Of course I wish to marry Charlotte, but I do not want a lifetime of her father interfering in our lives. If he thinks that I do not care for her, that I will marry out of obligation to you, then he will tread lightly, afraid to set me off again.