- Lucrezia Borgia: [Seductively] Take off your cloak.
- Alfonso of Aragon: If I remove my cloak, what will you remove in return?
- Lucrezia Borgia: You'll see.
- Lucrezia Borgia: [Presenting herself as her own maid] Just as one would have one's groom break in a new horse, so it is with my lady's loves and me.
- Cesare Borgia: [Referring to Savonarola] Who thought a body could stand so much pain! We've tortured the man near to death.
- Niccolo Machiavelli: The strength of a faith misguided is still a strength. He thought he could walk through fire.
- Vanozza Cattaneo: [to Cesare] So tell me, Cesare, what exactly ae we celebrating... your sister's betrothal or the death of your younger brother?