- Alessandro Farnese: Do you know who survive untouched in the ancient epic tales?
- Giulia Farnese: Who, some righteous sibling?
- Alessandro Farnese: The people not in the story. If the Farnese are to survive, we must go unnoticed. The gods torment those they see. Especially those they fuck.
- [last lines]
- Agapito Geraldini: The King is a bit mad, for he placed both marital chambers next to each other. I could hear he and Anne making love. And I could hear Cesare breaking his lance not once, not twice, but over and over. Then I heard a door creak and footsteps. I saw the King naked, his ear to Cesare's door. After Cesare had broke the lance for the eighth time, he stepped out naked as well to find the King looking at him in stunned admiration. And he said...
- Rodrigo Borgia: Who? Who said?
- Agapito Geraldini: The naked King. 'You have beaten me in this tournament as well.' And on the spot, increased his stipend to 40,000 francs a year. And granted Cesare the rare honor of placing French lilies alongside the bull on the Borgia coat of arms.
- Rodrigo Borgia: After the King retreated to his suite, I made myself known to Cesare.
- Rodrigo Borgia: All is well. The first sheets were red. Go to Rome, tell my father.
- Rodrigo Borgia: I looked into his room, but I did not see the sweet, young virgin on his bed. And that is because she no longer is. But as he closed the door I could see his smile was one of relief, release, satisfaction, surrender. As if all the women whom he had known in his life had led him to this moment.
- Rodrigo Borgia: Eight times? Eight times in one night, you say? Cesare is a Borgia. France is ours. And all of Italy.
- [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!
- Vannozza Catanei: You seem troubled.
- Alessandro Farnese: I'm losing the ability to hide my true feelings. That I need to survive at the Vatican.
- Vannozza Catanei: Politics is another name for despair.
- 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.
- Lucrezia Borgia: [winning the people over] Forgive. For if even one of you keeps venom in your heart, then all of us are tainted. Forgiveness is a gift which God has given us to give to others. When we die, God will not ask: 'How many men have you avenged?' But: 'How many did you forgive?' If a man is truly sorry and you cannot embrace him, then you have sinned and you will suffer.
- 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.