Elizabeth Throckmorton Quotes in Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Queen Elizabeth I: [during a briefing with Walsingham and Bess] We shall have to look out a husband for you soon, Bess.

Elizabeth Throckmorton: Not too soon, my lady.

Sir Francis Walsingham: There are husbands to be had.

Queen Elizabeth I: [to Bess] Don't you want to be married?

Elizabeth Throckmorton: I'll want the marriage if I want the man.

Sir Walter Raleigh: How am I to win the Queen's favor?

Elizabeth Throckmorton: Why should I tell you that?

Sir Walter Raleigh: I've little enough to offer, but whatever I have to give, ask and it's yours.

Elizabeth Throckmorton: Say what you mean to say as plainly as possible. All men flatter the Queen in hope of advancement. Pay her the compliment of truth.

Elizabeth Throckmorton: The puddle man is outside, Majesty.

Sir Walter Raleigh: It is something, after all, to take a blank on the map and build there a shining city.

Elizabeth Throckmorton: Which you will, no doubt, name after yourself.

Sir Walter Raleigh: No doubt.

Queen Elizabeth I: I suspect him of being a professional charmer. Am I right?

Elizabeth Throckmorton: He is certainly charming, my lady.

Queen Elizabeth I: Well, there are duller professions. You like him, don't you?

Elizabeth Throckmorton: He's a man that lives in a world far beyond the court. It's refreshing.

Queen Elizabeth I: Well, we shall let him come again.

Queen Elizabeth I: More lines on my face. Where do they come from?

Elizabeth Throckmorton: Smile lines, my lady.

Queen Elizabeth I: Smile lines? When do I ever smile?

Queen Elizabeth I: [speaking about Walter Raleigh] He interests me, talk to him.

Elizabeth Throckmorton: Him, Your Majesty?

Queen Elizabeth I: [smiling] Him.