"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to……" — Antonia Fraser

"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."

— Antonia Fraser

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34 Quotes by Antonia Fraser

Antonia Fraser has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same…
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington…
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came…
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a…
I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

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More Cromwell Quotes

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Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may… — Patrick Henry
What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's… — Ronald Hutton
The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles… — Simon Schama
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The… — Simon Schama
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may… — Thomas Gray
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels ... — William Shakespeare
When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach… — Mark Steyn
Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin. — Vladimir Putin
The only dangerous scene is when James Cromwell put a stake in my chest. But other than that, it turned… — Andre Braugher
I'm one of the ruins that Cromwell knocked about a bit. — Marie Lloyd

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