Don Esteban: [after getting a shove from behind from Borgia] My Lord! Cesare Borgia: My garden is filled with beautiful women and you stand here like a brooding nemisis! Don Esteban: I was thinking. Cesare Borgia: Good. Practice makes perfect. [Walking away] Cesare Borgia: You should listen though. You may learn something. - Orson Welles in Prince of Foxes (1949)

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Andrea Orsini: [looking at the dead body of Lucrezia Borgia's husband] Would you say the dead man made a reluctant corpse? Don Esteban: A loose tongue soon loses its mouth, Captain Orsini. Andrea Orsini: A wise tongue never needs to repeat itself, Don Esteban, nor does a competent assassin. - Tyrone Power in Prince of Foxes (1949)

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Andrea Orsini: I asked to be taken to Duke Cesare Borgia. Don Esteban: By his orders I sit in his seat. Andrea Orsini: Well, sit lightly, my friend, lest you damage your brains. - Tyrone Power in Prince of Foxes (1949)

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Andrea Orsini: I believe that I was born and that I must die, and that I must make the best of what lies between the two extremes. - Tyrone Power in Prince of Foxes (1949)

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Cesare Borgia: [to Orsini] The great know only one law: the outcome justifies the act. Have you the stomach for greatness? The stomach and the appetite? - Orson Welles in Prince of Foxes (1949)

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Cesare Borgia: It is my belief that everything, even death, can be turned into profit. - Orson Welles in Prince of Foxes (1949)

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Camilla Verano: I promise you I know how to hate. Andrea Orsini: Or love, the twin of hate. - Tyrone Power in Prince of Foxes (1949)

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Mario Belli: I never cut a throat without knowing whose it is or why I'm cutting it. - Everett Sloane in Prince of Foxes (1949)

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Mona Constanza Zoppo: [responding to a noise outside her cottage which has disturbed her dog] Mice, rabbits, cats - a widow's dog never rests. - Katina Paxinou in Prince of Foxes (1949)

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