King Henry Viii Quote Quotes

I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon. ~ David Starkey

And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:
And yet words are no deeds.
King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2 ~ William Shakespeare

Though some say youth doth rule me. ~ Henry VIII Of England

You have sent me a Flanders mare. ~ Henry VIII Of England

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time. ~ Edward VIII

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die. ~ King Edward VIII

I like going there for golf. America is one vast golf course today. ~ King Edward VIII

Two beheadings out of six wives is too many. ~ Henry VIII Of England

My heart is set.
All goodly sport
For my comfort
Who shall me let? ~ Henry VIII Of England

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks! ~ Henry VIII Of England

Henry VIII, for example, who was king of England from 1509 to 1547, ended his days surrounded by a great many young people for the simple reason that he'd had most of his old courtiers exiled or executed. Between the years 1532 and 1540 alone, Henry ordered 330 political executions, probably more than any other ruler in British history. If you worked for Henry VIII, then you really didn't need to worry about putting money into your pension fund as you probably wouldn't live long enough to spend it. ~ John Connolly

I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same. ~ King Edward VIII

Pastime with good company
I love and shall, until I die.
Grudge who list, but none deny!
So God be pleased, thus live will I. ~ Henry VIII Of England

All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!. ~ Henry VIII Of England

There it was, that dreaded word: love. I did not want to be loved, that was the burden. Unwanted love was the greatest burden of all. ~ Margaret George The Autobiography Of Henry VIII

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities. ~ Honore De Balzac

English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge. ~ Ben Miles

[W]hoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven. ~ Henry VIII Of England

I beseech you now with all my heart definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us ... ~ Henry VIII Of England

I see and hear daily that you of the Clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion. Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus. Thus all men almost be in variety and discord. ~ Henry VIII Of England

Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time Working Title and I had debated on whether to do Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. I'd always wanted to do Henry VIII. Like Elizabeth, I'd had this feeling that it had never properly been addressed. ~ Michael Hirst

T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. King Henry VIII. II.3 ~ William Shakespeare

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 mother,' Henry said. ~ Alison Weir

Until the early middle years of the sixteenth century, when King Henry VIII began to quarrel with Rome about the dialectics of divorce and decapitation, a short and swift route to torture and death was the attempt to print the Bible in English. It's ~ Christopher Hitchens

I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it. ~ Geoffrey Rush

Queen Jane Seymour's epitaph, inscribed in Latin, translated roughly to:
Here lies Jane, a phoenix
Who died in giving another phoenix birth,
Let her be mourned, for birds like these
Are rare indeed. ~ Leslie Carroll

We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament. ~ Henry VIII Of England

There is one fold and one shepherd. ~ Pope Boniface VIII

Henry VIII in full armor, it was said, weighed 500 pounds. ~ Oliver Sacks

The curious hunter-up of rare quotations ... the young and struggling scribbler ... ~ William Francis Henry King

Sprinkle a little magic everyday, before you head out on your way" Bookmark Quote ~ C.A. King ~ C.A. King

Law is king of all. ~ Henry Alford

I remember something my mother used to say. The Devil can quote scripture ~ Stephen King

Who's stupid now, Jimbo?! ~ April Henry

I like going there for golf. America's one vast golf course these days. ~ Edward VIII

The devil can quote scripture. ~ Stephen King

The third major rebel against Catholicism was Henry VIII, whose administration burned, on average, 3.25 heretics per year.38 ~ Steven Pinker

These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again. ~ Edward VIII

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 going to scratch your eyes out. ~ Philippa Gregory

Alas, how can the poor souls live in concord when you preachers sow amongst them in your sermons debate and discord? They look to you for light and you bring them darkness. Amend these crimes, I exhort you, and set forth God's word truly, both by true preaching and giving a good example, or else, I, whom God has appointed his vicar and high minister here, will see these divisions extinct, and these enormities corrected ... ~ Henry VIII Of England

God has set popes over kings and kingdoms. ~ Pope Boniface VIII

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. ~ Edward VIII

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal. ~ O. Henry

Magic would not work on Henry. He was too stupid. ~ Stephen King

No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself. ~ Hilary Mantel

Whoever said misery loves company was full of shite. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, however ... that guy was onto something. ~ Stephen King

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all. ~ Henry Ford

The taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind. ~ William Francis Henry King

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 had conceived, knowing each month that it did not happen that Henry's love wore a little thinner, that his patience grew a little shorter. Or Anne's curse of death in childbed, and death to her son, might come true. I did not envy Jane Seymour. I had seen two queens married to King Henry and neither of them had much joy of it. ~ Philippa Gregory

Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?...
...My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all. ~ Judith Claire Mitchell

The guy was tall, and possessed one of those earnest faces Henry associated with middle management. ~ Stephen King

If you go chasing your freedom your fate will only follow you there and force you back. ~ Christina Henry

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time. ~ Henry Louis Gates

Poverty is a mentality not a financial condition". ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Fantasy is unconstrained by truth. ~ Hilary Mantel

For me writing has always been best when it's intimate, as sexy as skin on skin. ~ Stephen King

Henry said, and sat up. His hands clawed at the air, as if for holds which only Henry could see. His gouged eye leaked and dribbled; its bottom arc now bulged pregnantly down onto his cheek. He looked around, saw Eddie shrinking back against the wall, and tried ~ Stephen King

I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIII's knights in another life, riding through a great forest. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Anything done for another is done for oneself. ~ Pope Boniface VIII

Intelligence is not based on how smart you're, but your ability to do things right and achieving the required results. ~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa

We declare, assert, define and pronounce to be subject to the Roman Pontiff is to every creature altogether necessary for salvation ... I have the authority of the King of Kings. I am all in all, and above all, so that God Himself and I, the Vicar of Christ, have but one consistory, and I am able to do almost all that God can do. What therefore, can you make of me but God? ~ Pope Boniface VIII

Cardinal Wolsey, the butcher's son, is indeed the hero of "Henry VIII.," but his humble origin is only mentioned incidentally as something to be ashamed of. ~ William Shakespeare

Why must Justice have a color? Is it the same "REASON" that the sky are "BLUE? ~ Henry Johnson Jr

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

A good quote is worth a thousand words. ~ Jonathan King

Muh-muh-maybe, Bill said, and he felt a sudden helpless fury at his stutter, which made it impossible for him to talk fast. Perhaps they were things he would have found impossible to say anyway - how he felt he could almost see through Henry Bowers's eyes, how he felt that, although on opposite sides, pawns controlled by opposing forces, he and Henry had grown very close. Henry expected ~ Stephen King

In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room. ~ Madonna Ciccone

People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He's also King. If you love the King, you will obey Him. ~ Alisa Hope Wagner

There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together. ~ Pope Boniface VIII

He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me ... ~ Jean Plaidy

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones. ~ Stephen King

Under English law the penalty for eating meat on Friday was hanging. The law remained on the books until the sixteenth century, when Henry VIII broke with the Vatican. ~ Mark Kurlansky

Doctor,' he says, 'I just fucked up.
'How did you do that, Henry?
'I told a patient the truth.
'If we know the truth, Henry, does it not set us free?
'No', he replies to himself, looking up at the ceiling. 'Not in the slightest. ~ Stephen King

You can't build Liberia without developing the minds of Liberians. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists. ~ Kage Baker

But we glared into each other's eyes like men who have ruined each other already, and who only wait to make the full disaster known ~ M.T. Anderson

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~ Edward VIII

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 do this they have to imagine every disaster and shame that can occur between a man and a woman alone in a room in the dark. ~ Hilary Mantel

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king. ~ Henry Ford

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there. ~ Helen Mirren

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

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.) ~ Hilary Mantel

Civil disobedience has almost always been about expression. Generally, it's nonviolent, as defined by Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and King. ~ Marvin Ammori

By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats - that is, dairy products - were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it. ~ Clarissa Dickson Wright

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 precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one. ~ Christopher Hitchens

Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

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. ~ Hilary Mantel

Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same. ~ Henry Louis Gates

A document from the reign of King Henry VIII described one of the two actual axes used for the beheadings. The story was that the relic was displayed in the church; it gave both the church and the street their odd names. In the early 1560s refugees from Spain used it as a place of worship but by then it was in a state of disrepair. It was demolished shortly thereafter, taken down to the foundation. Another building, the one which Thomas and Belinda Russell owned today, was built in 1620 on the ruins of the ancient church. ~ Bill Thompson

And in all truth it can be said- yes the zionist jews were responsible for 9/11. ~ Henry Makow

Be your own King of movement ~ Armin Houman

Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1. ~ Luana Ehrlich

Every big dream begins with a little nap. ~ Yohann Dafeu

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ~ Henry Louis Gates

If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all. ~ Betty Dravis

I want to be the joint that she smokes so that we can finally talk about
everything without having to use words, because I will be a drug in her brain. ~ A.S. King

Uncle Henry can call cremation pagan if he wants to, but this open-coffin shit is the real pagan rite. She doesn't look like my mother, she looks like a stuffed rabbit. ~ Stephen King

If you want success, then be your own success story. ~ Steven Cuoco