The Tudors (2007–2010)

Sam Neill: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

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• Cardinal Thomas Wolsey : The King commands that you surrender this whole matter into his hands. Otherwise, the court will condemn you.

  Queen Katherine : I am surprised to receive such a request from such a wise and noble man as you. I am but a poor woman, lacking in both wit and understanding. How am I supposed to respond to such a request made to me out of the blue?

  Cardinal Thomas Wolsey : You know perfectly well what the King desires and what he shall have.

  Queen Katherine : All I know, Eminence, is that you, for your own purposes, have kindled this fire. All this time, all these years, I have wondered at your high pride and your vain glory. I have abhorred your voluptuous life and had no regard at all for your presumptuous power and your tyranny! I also know your malice against my nephew, the Emperor. You hate him like a scorpion. And why? Because he would not satisfy your ambition and make you Pope by force.

  Cardinal Thomas Wolsey : Madam, you should never presume to know...

  Queen Katherine : My only satisfaction is that in frustrating you, I hasten your fall from the King's good graces... an outcome I desire above all others.

• Cardinal Thomas Wolsey : Lady Anne, what are you doing here?

  Anne Boleyn : I have an audience with His Majesty.

  Cardinal Thomas Wolsey : [amused]  What would a silly girl like you have to say to a king?