Leases, writs, statutes, all are written to be read, and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.
It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.
It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation.
In truth you cannot separate them, your public being and your private self.
In the year 1257, an elephant died in the Tower menagerie and was buried in a pit near the chapel. But the following year he was dug up and his remains sent to Westminster Abbey. Now, what did they wa...
If you are without impulses, you are, to a degree, without joy...469
If Mary's blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.
I was just going over London Bridge and I saw someone had attacked the Madonna's statue. Knocked off the baby's head.’‘That was done a while back. It would be that devil Cranmer. You know what he is w...
I look like a watermelon with a great slice hacked out. I say to myself, it's just another border post on the frontier between medicine and greengrocery; growths and tumour seem always to be described...
I do no damage. This is damage, this.He picked up a paper from Camille’s desk. I can’t read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself.
Há para tudo uma estação: uma estação para passar fome e uma estação para roubar.
High spirits are a foolish waste in those destined for the chain gang of marriage and the mill
Henry glares at him. I will say this for you. You stick by your man. I have never had anything from the cardinal other than kindness. Why would I not?
He cannot lock us all up. He has prisons enough. For bodies, yes. But what are bodies? He can take our goods, but God will prosper us. He can close the booksellers, but still there will be books. They...
But I want him north, Howard says. Tell him to go. Tell him Norfolk says he must be on the road and out of here. Or--and tell him this--I will come where he is, and I will tear him with my teeth.My lo...
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at...
News comes from Rome that the Emperor’s Spanish and German troops, who have not been paid for months, have run wild through the Holy City paying themselves, plundering the treasuries and stoning the a...
Distraught. It seems he claims
You once told me, when you visited my house, how Anne conducts herself with men: she says, Yes, yes, yes, yes, no.’ Wyatt nods; he recognises those words; he looks sorry he spoke them. ‘Now you may ha...
You . . . person, he says; and again, you nobody from Hell, you whore-spawn, you cluster of evil, you lawyer.