Don Esteban:
[after getting a shove from behind from Borgia] My Lord!
Cesare Borgia: My garden is filled with beautiful women and you stand here like a brooding nemisis!
Don Esteban: I was thinking.
Cesare Borgia: Good. Practice makes perfect.
[Walking away]
Cesare Borgia: You should listen though. You may learn something.
Cesare Borgia: My garden is filled with beautiful women and you stand here like a brooding nemisis!
Don Esteban: I was thinking.
Cesare Borgia: Good. Practice makes perfect.
[Walking away]
Cesare Borgia: You should listen though. You may learn something.
Andrea Orsini:
[looking at the dead body of Lucrezia Borgia's husband] Would you say the dead man made a reluctant corpse?
Don Esteban: A loose tongue soon loses its mouth, Captain Orsini.
Andrea Orsini: A wise tongue never needs to repeat itself, Don Esteban, nor does a competent assassin.
Don Esteban: A loose tongue soon loses its mouth, Captain Orsini.
Andrea Orsini: A wise tongue never needs to repeat itself, Don Esteban, nor does a competent assassin.
Andrea Orsini:
I asked to be taken to Duke Cesare Borgia.
Don Esteban: By his orders I sit in his seat.
Andrea Orsini: Well, sit lightly, my friend, lest you damage your brains.
Don Esteban: By his orders I sit in his seat.
Andrea Orsini: Well, sit lightly, my friend, lest you damage your brains.
Andrea Orsini:
I believe that I was born and that I must die, and that I must make the best of what lies between the two extremes.
Cesare Borgia:
[to Orsini] The great know only one law: the outcome justifies the act. Have you the stomach for greatness? The stomach and the appetite?
Mona Constanza Zoppo:
[responding to a noise outside her cottage which has disturbed her dog] Mice, rabbits, cats - a widow's dog never rests.