Borgias Quotes

#1. In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#2. My father says the family motto is, 'What would the Borgias do?' That explains a lot, actually.

Liana Brooks

#3. 'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

Holliday Grainger

#4. A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.

Charles Baudelaire

#5. Breakfast with the Borgias.

Agatha Christie

#6. No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

Max Beerbohm

#7. Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Francois Arnaud

#8. Before Ben-Yehuda ... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.

Cecil Roth

#9. The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

Douglas Coupland

#10. Philosophy is listening to warbling posh boys, it is being more bored than you have ever been in your life, more bored than you thought it possible to be.

Zadie Smith

#11. Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

Edward Gibbon

#12. It would be impossible, therefore, to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this - the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. What

Frederic Bastiat

#13. Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

Sarah Dunant

#14. One enemy at the time.

Sarah Dunant