Kings (TV Series)

First Night (2009)

Susanna Thompson: Queen Rose Benjamin

Quotes 

• King Silas Benjamin : That laughter at my expense?

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : Merely appreciating the evening; but I can't say I support what you have done - offering away our lands?

  King Silas Benjamin : You don't support peace? After all your words, you'd rather war?

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : I'd rather an undivided nation, as planned - as *promised*.

  King Silas Benjamin : Those plans, those promises, weren't vouchsafed by treaty, by action - *I* did that. You come to my house, drink my scotch, criticize me?

  Queen Rose Benjamin : I thought we agreed to no politics.

  King Silas Benjamin : This is beyond politics. The reverend has recently made this... personal.

  Rev. Ephram Samuels : Ma'am - you have brought art to Shiloh and music to hearts. You have raised the level. *This* is why we end wars. And perhaps it's best I take my leave.

• Queen Rose Benjamin : This country was nothing before it had a king... stone age clans at war. It's why I designed every inch of this monarchy as I did - the color of the flag down to, yes, the china - so they could have something larger than life to be inspired by. Decadence, kings, huge and poreless. You think I care about ballet? They didn't wait in line to see dancing; they came to see *us*, the royal family - *we* are the performance.