- Lady Sarah: Abigail has done this. She does not love you.
- Queen Anne: Because how could anyone? She wants nothing from me. Unlike you.
- Lady Sarah: She wants nothing from you. And yet somehow she is a lady. With 2000 a year, and Harley sits on your knee most nights.
- Queen Anne: I wish you could love me as she does!
- Lady Sarah: You wish me to lie to you? "Oh you look like an angel fallen from heaven, your majesty." No. Sometimes, you look like a badger. And you can rely on me to tell you.
- Queen Anne: Why?
- Lady Sarah: Because I will not lie! That is love!
- Queen Anne: Some wounds do not close; I have many such. One just walks around with them and sometimes one can feel them filling with blood.
- Queen Anne: Did you just look at me?
- [the servant shakes his head sideways]
- Queen Anne: Did you? Look at me! Look at me!
- [the servant looks at her]
- Queen Anne: How dare you! Close your eyes!
- Abigail: Lady Marlborough.
- Lady Sarah: Oh, dear. The servant is dressed in the clothes of a lady. How... whimsical.
- Abigail: My dear friend and cousin, how good to see you've returned from...
- Lady Sarah: Hell. I'm sure you shall pass through it one day.
- Godolphin: Obviously you have chosen to keep the particulars of your dismissal from me. I shall leave a gap in the conversation for you to remedy that.
- [silence and dead stares from Lady Sarah]
- Godolphin: I do not know of women and their feelings, but I know they nurse their hurts like wailing newborns.
- Lady Sarah: Godolphin, I have a surge of desire to see your nose broken. Your point?
- Lady Sarah: Anne, you are too sensitive.
- Queen Anne: And you are too mean and uncaring, some days.
- Lady Sarah: Some days I'm quite lovely though. Let's think on them!
- Queen Anne: [after her fall] They were all staring, weren't they? I can tell even if I can't see. And I heard the word fat! Fat and ugly!
- Lady Sarah: Anne, no one but me would dare and I did not.
- Harley: Might I remind you, you are not the queen.
- Lady Sarah: No, she has sent me to speak for her. She is unwell.
- Godolphin: What says she?
- Lady Sarah: That Harley is a fop and a prat and smells like a ninety-six-year-old French whore's vajuju.
- Lady Sarah: You do not lisp but you are mad. Giving me a palace?
- Queen Anne: I have been wanting to give you something for quite some time now. Seemed like the perfect opportunity with Marlborough winning.
- Lady Sarah: It is a monstrous extravagance, Mrs. Morley. We are at war.
- Queen Anne: We won!
- Lady Sarah: Oh, it is not over. We must continue.
- Queen Anne: Oh. Oh, I did not know that.
- Lady Sarah: [to Harley] Your mascara is running. If you want to fix yourself we can discuss this later.
- Lady Sarah: I love you, but that I will not do.
- Queen Anne: If you love me...
- Lady Sarah: Love has limits.
- Queen Anne: It should not.
- Abigail: [about the war] If he dies?
- Lady Sarah: Did you not sacrifice your cunt to a fatty German to save your father?
- Abigail: Yes.
- Lady Sarah: There is always a price to pay. I am prepared to pay it.
- Abigail: My life is like a maze that I continually think I've gotten out of only to find another corner right in front of me.
- Abigail: [after Sarah slaps Abigail twice in the face] Obviously you still have some anger to expiate. I'll allow it this once.
- Lady Sarah: Congratulations on your wedded bliss.
- Abigail: [snorts dismissively]
- Harley: I wish to make a statement to the Queen.
- Lady Sarah: State it to me. I love a comedy. Is there cake?
- Abigail: When I was 15, my father lost me in a card game.
- Lady Sarah: You are not serious.
- Abigail: He was very upset about it. Took off into the forest with nothing but a scullery maid and a dozen bottles for solace.
- [last lines]
- Abigail: You should lie down.
- Queen Anne: You shall speak when asked to! I feel dizzy, I need to hold on to something.
- [she grabs Abigail's hair]
- Abigail: I hoped I might be employed here. By you. As something.
- Lady Sarah: A monster for the children to play with, perhaps?
- Abigail: You're so beautiful.
- Queen Anne: Stop it, you mock me.
- Abigail: I do not. If I were a man, I would ravish you! Rrrrravish!
- Abigail: The debt was to a balloon shaped German man with a thin cock. Thankfully I managed to convince him a woman has her blood in twenty eight days a month.
- Lady Sarah: None for the queen.
- Queen Anne: What?
- Lady Sarah: Well you cannot have hot chocolate. Your stomach, the sugar inflames it.
- Queen Anne: Abigail, hand me that cup!
- Lady Sarah: [casually] Do not.
- Abigail: I'm sorry. I do not know what to do.
- Lady Sarah: Oh fine, give it to her. And you can get a bucket and mop for the aftermath.
- Queen Anne: Are the people really angry about the land tax?
- Lady Sarah: They'll be angrier when the French are sodomising their wives and planting their fields with garlic.
- Abigail: Perhaps because of my past, perhaps some malformation of my heart. I blame my father, of course. *Cunt*. I must take control of my circumstance. I will need to act in a way that meets the edges of my morality. Or, I will end up on the street selling my arsehole to syphilitic soldiers, steadfast morality will be a fucking nonsense that will mock me daily.
- [first lines]
- Queen Anne: How was my speech?
- Lady Sarah: You were brilliant.
- Queen Anne: Did I lisp?
- Lady Sarah: You don't lisp.
- Queen Anne: I know. That was what was so troubling about it. The thought that I suddenly did.