William Shakespeare: I was the more deceived.
Viola De Lesseps: Yes, you were deceived, for I did not know how much I loved you.
Viola De Lesseps : This is not life, Will. It is a stolen season.
[Saying their goodbyes]
William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
William Shakespeare: Love knows nothing of rank or river bank.
William Shakespeare: Love blights the soul we owe to God.
William Shakespeare: A broad river divides my lovers: family, duty, fate. As unchangeable as nature.
Lord Wessex: How is this to end?
Queen Elizabeth: As stories must when love's denied: denied with tears and a journey.
Viola De Lesseps: [to her Nurse] I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play.
William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed.
Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.
Lord Wessex: I have spoken with your father.
Viola De Lesseps: So, my lord? I speak with him every day.
Viola de Lesseps: [as Thomas Kent] Tell me how you love her, Will.
William Shakespeare: Like a sickness and its cure together.
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