Epic Borgias Quotes

Our 5 Favorite Quotes from last season’s The Borgias

5. Cesare Borgia to Florentine diplomat after the falling-out between the Florentine signoria & Vitellozo Vitelli:
“My task is not to tyrannize, but to destroy tyrants.”

4. “During the siege at the castle outside Viana shortly before Cesare died on 12 March 1507 he was reported as saying “when I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared.”

3. Pietro Bembo to Lucrezia: “If during this period you chance to find your ears ringing , it will be because I am communing with all those dark things and horrors and tears of yours, or else writing pages about you that will still be read a century after we are gone.”

2. Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici (later Pope Leo X) on Rodrigo Borgia being elected Pope: ”Now we are in the power of a wolf, the most rapacious perhaps that this world has ever seen. And if we do not flee, he will inevitably devour us all.”

1. Cesare Borgia: “I imagine things. Murders. Blood spattered throats. Poisoned chalices.”