- Thomas Cromwell: It lies within my power to make Your Majesty still more prosperous yet.
- Henry VIII: But how would I ever reward you, Crom? You have it all: the Privy Seal, the Garter, Vicar General, the earldom of Essex and Lord Chamberlain. What more could I do for you?
- Thomas Cromwell: Your Grace might box my head at times.
- Henry VIII: [gives a huge laugh and playfully slaps Cromwell on the face] That would not be seemly. But I'm keeping his Lordship from his business.
- Thomas Cromwell: You were in a great hurry, gentlemen, to begin without me.
- Norfolk: [as Cromwell is about to take his seat at the council table] Cromwell, do not sit there. There is no place for you, traitors do not sit with gentlemen.
- Thomas Cromwell: [mumbles] I'm no traitor.
- [flings down his cap in rage and screams in a loud voice]
- Thomas Cromwell: Upon your conscience, am I a traitor?
- [tries to run out of the chamber but the guards seize him]
- Thomas Cromwell: Let me speak to the King!
- Norfolk: [the guards fling Cromwell up to the table facing Norfolk] No, Cromwell, but by your own law that no man accused of treason may attend his grace. Send to his house to take inventory, take him!
- Suffolk: [as Cromwell is about to be led away, Suffolk walks slowly up to Cromwell] Wait!
- [Suffolk and the rest of the council, except Cranmer who is disgusted, tear Cromwell's decorations from his person and give him a beating and a bloody nose]
- Suffolk: Now take him away.
- Thomas Cromwell: Your Grace.
- Henry VIII: Whom can a man trust in this world when there is nothing real in it?
- [showing Cromwell a miniature portrait of Anne of Cleves]
- Henry VIII: Is this a true likeness?
- Thomas Cromwell: Yes, sire, I think.
- Henry VIII: Where are the great pits in her face?
- Thomas Cromwell: She has a queenly manner, I think, sire.
- Henry VIII: I like her not!
- [shoving and shaking Cromwell]
- Henry VIII: She is nothing fair and I like her not!