Elizabeth (1998)

Fanny Ardant: Mary of Guise

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• [to a wounded boy, handing him a handkerchief stained with his blood] 

  Mary of Guise : Go back to England, and take this to your Queen. Hm?

  Mary of Guise : [in French, to herself]  English blood on French colors.

  [turns to her officer] 

  Mary of Guise : Send him back to his Queen, and make sure he remains alive. Tell that bastard Queen not to send children to fight Mary of Guise!

• Sir Francis Walsingham : [referring to Elizabeth]  Her Majesty rules with the heart... not with the head.

  Mary of Guise : [smiles]  Hm, I understand. It is hard for a woman to forget her heart.

• Sir Francis Walsingham : [how a wise man would change allegiance]  There are but two choices: he would get into bed with either Spain or France.

  Mary of Guise : [laughs, then smiles wickedly]  And... whose bed would you prefer?