"Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony." "Be quite!" "You can't expect to wield supreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you." "Shut up!" "I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away." ---------------------------------------------------------- One of the few scenes I worked to memorize lol.