- Waleran Bigod: [burning his long-cherished blueprints for castle improvements, on the eve of being promoted to Archbishop] Canterbury's a much nicer palace... and already built.
- Waleran Bigod: [writing letter, voice over] Brother Remigius, If what you say is true, god's wishes are clear. Jack Jackson's mother is a witch, and he's the Devil's offspring. His blasphemous stonework attests to that. For years he has been an irritant to God's plan, and now God wants him stopped. Spice his dinner with the contents of the enclosed package, a pinch should suffice, and have it delivered to the prisoner by a monk he knows and trusts. Ego te absolvo. In the name of Jesus Christ.
- Johnny Eightpence: You'll be free this time tomorrow. You ought to be happy.
- Jack: She'll be wed this time tomorrow, Johnny. I will never be happy again.
- Ellen: I curse this wedding. I curse this marriage with sorrow. I curse this marriage with impotence! With hatred, with regret and bitterness.
- Regan Hamleigh: I wanted to speak with you in private if I may. I have a rather troubling confession to make.
- Archbishop: Well, I'm sorry. Isn't Bishop Waleran your confessor?
- Regan Hamleigh: Yes. But my sin is for the ears of the Archbishop of Canterbury himself
- Archbishop: I don't understand.
- Regan Hamleigh: I have been asked to... I have been asked to commit a murder.
- Archbishop: Oh, my dear. By whom?
- Regan Hamleigh: Bishop Waleran.
- Cuthbert: She came to be shriven, Your Eminence.
- Waleran Bigod: Not in good time. She will be buried now in unholy ground, which means Philip has sent her to hell.
- Regan Hamleigh: Now tell me, whom do you hate the most?
- William Hamleigh: Aliena. She didn't die in the fire like I wanted her to.
- Regan Hamleigh: And what would you do to her?
- William Hamleigh: Have my way with her again and again until she does die.
- Regan Hamleigh: And so you shall.