Antonia Fraser Quotes

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...

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Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (née Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Kings who become prisoners are not far from death.

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

This time the Empress was supposed to have asked the celebrated healer and pretender to miraculous powers, John Joseph Gassner: Will my daughter be happy? His reply was suitably gnomic: There are cros...

People cannot help their predilections, although they may conceal them.

Was Charles I too stubborn to listen to reason? Could Civil War have been averted if the king had been more willing to negotiate? His great enemy Cromwell always maintained that the king had been sway...

Sunken to that of an old woman in the harsh disguise

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

Though Charles II both craved and enjoyed female companionship till the end of his life, there is no question that by the cold, rainy autumn of 1682 his physical appetites had diminshed considerably....

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Mignon' said the King, 'soon you are going to be a great king'. But he also told Anjou, in a memorable phrase 'Try to remain at peace with your neighbors: I have loved war too much...

It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake

Very last answer which Paulet and Buckhurst were prepared to

It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette

A modern definition of terrorism: 'the weapon of the weak, pretending to be strong'.

Certainly, it is impossible to understand the course of the Powder Treason from now on unless one takes into account the magnetism of Robert Catesby.