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If we still advise we shall never do.

~ Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I Preach Tudors Wisdom

The thing people don't understand about an army is its great, unpunctuated wastes of inaction: you have to scavenge for food, you are camped out somewhere with a rising water level because your mad capitaine says so, you are shifted abruptly in the middle of the night into some indefensible position, so you never really sleep, your equipment is defective, the gunners keep causing small unwanted explosions, the crossbowmen are either drunk or praying, the arrows are ordered up but not here yet, and your whole mind is occupied by a seething anxiety that things are going to go badly because il principe, or whatever little worshipfulness is in charge today, is not very good at the basic business of thinking. It didn't take him many winters to get out of fighting and into supply. In Italy, you could always fight in the summer, if you felt like it. If you wanted to go out.

~ Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel History Tudors War

Around thrones the thunder rolls.

~ C.j. Sansom

C.j. Sansom Monarchy Politics Tudors

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.

~ Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel Change Gestures History Power Subtlety Tudors

If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through a narrow gateway with a wide wooden chest. A simple rotation of the object solves a great many problems.

~ Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel Adeptness History Practicality Tudors

Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.

~ Joann Spears

Joann Spears Anne Boleyn Audrey Hepburn Historical Fiction Tudors Women S Humor

This building fool could only be Bess of Hardwicke, a woman whose name is seldom seen in print without the word “redoubtable” in front of it. I wondered if anyone ever called her redoubtable to her face. I redoubted it.

~ Joann Spears

Joann Spears Bess Of Hardwicke Historical Fiction Six Of One By Joann Spears Tudors Women S Humor

One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,is that it is full of books.

~ Michael Hirst

Michael Hirst Tudors Witty
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