As my wife you cannot refuse me. I have a right to you, as your betrothed husband. From now, till your death, you will never be able to refuse me. There can be no rape between us, only my rights and y...
As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet.Honesty matters so much less.
As he catches my eye he beams at me, his dark face bright with affection. Anyone can see it who cares to look at him, he is hopelessly indiscreet. He puts his hand to his heart as if swearing fidelity...
Any triumph she has is halved if I am not there to see it. And anything that goes wrong for me, any slight or humiliation, she is quick to perceive and she would even be quick to revenge—oh!—but insid...
Anne tried to dazzle him with her high spirits and her beauty. She kept her temper with him, though he was sour and dull. She danced, she gambled, she laughed, she skated, she was all joy, all light....
Anne gave a little giggle. 'Oh what a tragedy Queen! You can smile while your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful...
And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool...
All this is always for nothing, he says. Don’t you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided.
Ah, my dear. Sometimes God takes the most precious children to his own.
Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.
Affection is not important to you, nor to me. You want power Margaret, power and wealth; and so do I. Nothing matters as much as this to either of us, and we will sacrifice anything for it.
A man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, at the same time, know that they are utterly hopelessly different.
A haja szőke, a szeme szürke, napbarnított, nyílt, mosolygó arca csupa báj és könnyed elegancia. Ilyen királyt eddig még nem láttunk Angliában: ezt a férfit első látásra megszeretik az emberek. Tekint...
¿Qué mejor manera de pasar los últimos días del mundo que enamorándose?
Who could deny the Pope when he held the keys of heaven in his hand?
We stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: This is heaven.
She taught me that there is nothing in the world more powerful than a woman who knows what she wants and walks a straight road towards it. It doesn’t matter if you call it magic or determination. It d...
Quando se reconhece que o amado é tudo menos perfeito, tal constitui um verdadeiro teste ao amor.
Might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding of her. It might be that a woman could be a wife without having to cut the pride and the spirit out...
Man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.