Kings (TV Series)

Insurrection (2009)

Ian McShane: King Silas Benjamin

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Quotes 

• King Silas Benjamin : We *will* have peace - and those who obstruct it are wolves, carving out my flock for food.

• Michelle Benjamin : They're already starting to protest. You don't care what your people say about you?

  King Silas Benjamin : A handful - grumbling at the press? No cause for alarm. A healthy exercising of the freedoms I'm pretty sure *I* gave them.

• King Silas Benjamin : The people cannot have what they want at every turn; neither can you. That's the definition of governing - and parenting.

• King Silas Benjamin : [changing clothes after having coffee spilled on him]  Have him hung!

  Queen Rose Benjamin : *Hanged*. Laundry is hung; valets are hanged.

  King Silas Benjamin : So are queens who correct their husbands.

• King Silas Benjamin : You're offering to buy a ministry.

  Katrina Ghent : And overpay.

  King Silas Benjamin : Unlucky for you, there's no positions in my government for sale today; but I admire forthrightness. So I'm gonna pardon you for trying to bribe a sovereign while wet. Good day, Mrs. Ghent.

• King Silas Benjamin : The people have the right to mock, scorn, criticize, and burn unflattering photographs in effigy until morning - but I will *not* have my country drawn back into war by opportunists or fanatics.

• Thomasina : Sir - I have concerns... for your heart.

  King Silas Benjamin : Doctor gave it a clean bill, just winter.

  Thomasina : Not the function; the temperature. I fear it's gone cold... since Serenity, sir. Since you stopped going.

  King Silas Benjamin : I know of no such place.

  Thomasina : So it seems.

  King Silas Benjamin : You have a point?

  Thomasina : Without it... without *her*, you have *not* been yourself as... as I know you. What you spied sharply escapes notice; and what gave you pause, doesn't. And without the countervalence of warmth, you've grown mean, sir. And I don't know how to serve this cold Silas. And my duty is to protect the family.

• King Silas Benjamin : Your words today, at the river.

  Thomasina : Sir...

  King Silas Benjamin : More than I ever heard you string together in a month. Now, you've been in my employ in this capacity for how long?

  Thomasina : I don't keep count...

  King Silas Benjamin : How long?

  Thomasina : Ten years, eight months... some days.

  King Silas Benjamin : Maybe it's time... for a promotion.

• King Silas Benjamin : [to Jack]  You should be careful accepting gifts from your uncle; they're *never* actually gifts.

• [Abner is unaware that Silas believes David to be his divinely chosen successor] 

  Gen. Linus Abner : I don't know why you think he deserves special treatment.

  King Silas Benjamin : Only concern yourself with that I do.