Nobody knows how long the arrests wil go on and who else will be taken. He feels even he does not know, and he is in charge of it.
Men, it is supposed want to pass their wisdom to their sons; he would give a great deal to protect his own son from a quartr of what he knows.
He tries not to give offense. He likes to think of himself by nature as reasonable and conciliatory. He can duck out, prevaricate, evade the issue. He can smile enigmatically and refuse to come down o...
Give me a book, she said. A book of sermons, anything.What do you want a book for?I want words. I’ve got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose.
Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.
Elijah told Ahab that the dogs would lick his blood, and so it came to pass, as you would imagine, since only the successful prophets are remembered
Cranmer says, ‘We will try again with More. At least, if he refuses, he should give his reasons.’He swears under his breath, turns from the window. ‘We know his reasons. All Europe knows them. He is a...
But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?398
But Christendom was overturned for the Boleyn marriage, to put the ginger pig in the cradle;
At the top of the Queen’s Staircase at the Tuileries, there is a series of communicating chambers, crowded every day with clerks, secretaries, messengers, with army officers and purveyors, officials o...
A generation back, his family were called Writh, but they thought an elegant extension would give them consequence;Cromwell of Wriothesley
But whenever good fortune has called on him, he has been there, planted on the threshold, ready to fling open the door to her timid scratch on the wood.
At some point on your road you have to turn and start walking back towards yourself. Or the past will pursue you, and bite the nape of your neck, leave you bleeding in the ditch. Better to turn and fa...