I’m a lady. It’s none of it mine. Look at you. You’re doing well enough—is your wife a rich woman? He chuckled sheepishly at that. She’s my wife. She does as well as I do. But she doesn’t own anything...
Remember, she needs you now. Don’t sell your services too cheap.
Richard told me I was the most beautiful girl that had ever been born, that one glance from me set him on fire with desire, that my skin was perfect, that my hair was his delight, that he never slept...
She smiled an empty bitter smile that did not reach her eyes, 'Do you think it can be worse than this? I cannot be charged with treason, I am the Queen of England, I am England. I cannot be divorced,...
She was a woman whose spirit had been hammered and forged until she could only ring true. Compared with the rest of us sho was silver, while we were pewter, a common of lead and tin.
She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.
She's ice and ambition and she would see you on the gallows before surrendering her ambition. Anne has dazzled him, and dazzled the court, and dazzled even you.''Not me.' George said gently.'Uncle lik...
So he left her, because in his heart he feared that she was a woman with a divided nature—and he did not realize that all women are creatures of divided nature.
Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your righ...
That’s how it is for women, I said, stung into honesty. It’s not what one would choose—I grant you that. But women are the very toys of fortune.
The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit.
The king smiled at Anne. She dropped him a curtsy straight down, like a bucket in a well, head up, and a small challenging smile on her lips. The king was not taken, he liked easy women, he liked smil...
The more that I learn, the more sure I am that I have very much to learn...
The mown grass is growing again nearly to our knees; we will take a second crop of hay from this field, rich and green and starred with moon daisies, buttercups and the bright, blowsy heads of poppies...
The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if th...
The tragedy of Melusina, whatever language tells it, whatever tune it sings, is that a man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.
This child could not command a pet dove.Harsh but true, lol!
This is a woman who has not been tamed to be as others want; she has not been cut down to fit her circumstances.
This is the man who hopes to be King of England. He has to marry a princess. He’s not going to marry some beggarly widow from the camp of his enemy, who stood out on the road to plead with him to rest...
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