The art of happiness is being content with what you have,' she would say, looking with apparent satisfaction out of the dusty windows at the garden, yellowing like an uncut hayfield in the October sun...
The Duke of Clarence, the king’s beloved brother George, is beside him looking like a true York prince, golden-haired, ready of smile, graceful even in repose, a handsome dainty copy of my husband. He...
Some of us are born to a solitary life.
She would have come to me if she could, she would have blessed this baby as she blessed all the others. I had a hard confinement without her here and I expect to miss her for the rest of my life. This...
She prayed while you were raping me? I ask him. It isn’t rape, he says. Stop saying that. You’re a fool to call it that. Since we’re betrothed, it cannot be rape. As my wife you cannot refuse me. I ha...
She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.
She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be that poor Mrs. Fool until the day he dies.
Queen Katherine had been born a princess. From the moment she could talk she had been taught to guard her tongue. From the moment she could walk she had been taught to step carefully and speak kindly...
People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.
One should never offend more men than one can persuade,
One never gets the same summer twice.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that marriage is a sacrament, Anne replies. It was not God who joined us together. The priest says it was; but this is not true. This is the word of the church, not th...
Nothing in the world matters more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that.
My father was exceptionally tall and exceptionally handsome, and he only had to walk into a room to dominate the assembly of people. He revelled in the latest fashions and the most beautiful rich clot...
Meluzina tragédiája – bármilyen nyelv beszélje is el, bármilyen dallam énekelje is meg – az, hogy egy férfi mindig többet ígér, mint amennyit tenni képes egy nőért, akit nem tud megérteni.
Knowing that you do not know is to ask humbly, instead of tell arrogantly. That is the beginning of wisdom.
It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.
In Spain, indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.
If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.
I was taught to be queen by Margaret of Anjou, and perhaps I have taught you how to be queen in turn. This is fortune’s wheel indeed.’ With my forefinger I draw a circle in the air, the sign of fortun...