- Georges D'Amboise: [Greeting Cesare at the Avignon gate in his archbishop's garb] My Lord Borgia, you look quite sober for a duke.
- Cesare Borgia: You look quite priestly for a king.
- Joan of France: [Enraged after she has slapped Cesare] May you rot in the circle of Hell reserved for the Borgia family.
- Cesare Borgia: There is no Hell, no Heaven either. This world is what we make of it.
- Rodrigo Borgia: [In bath with Bianca] Scandal may be the perrogative of kings, but we are the Pope of Rome. We have a church to run.