Top Henry Viii Quotes

This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that pr...

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth.

Dželat mi prilazi i kaže: Spustite glavu na panj i raširite ruke kad budete spremni, gospo.Poslušno spuštam ruke na panj i nespretno kleknem na travu. Osećam njen miris pod kolenima. Osećam bol u leđi...

I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

The story was certainly current at court, and in 1535 a Member of Parliament, Sir George Throckmorton, accused Henry to his face of 'meddling' with both Anne's mother and sister Mary.'Never with the m...

So now get up.'Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help hi...

Henry stirs into life. 'Do I retain you for what is easy? Do you think it is for your personal beauty? The charm of your presence? I keep you, Master Cromwell, because you are as cunning as a bag of s...

Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the...

Jane, I said quietly.She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying.If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is...

It’s not his friendship I miss,’ Elizabeth said bluntly. ‘It’s him. The very person of him. His presence. I want his shadow on my wall, I want the smell of him. I can’t eat without him, I can’t do the...

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.

He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to d...

I’m not trying to impress you, he replied, glancing up at the front of the room. Gads, he said, blinking in surprise. What is that ?Hyacinth followed his gaze. Several of the Pleinsworth progeny, one...

Jane would be the next queen and her children, when she had them, would be the next princes or princesses. Or she might wait, as the other queens had waited, every month, desperate to know that she ha...

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.