History Quote by David Starkey

A strong belief cannot go side by side with a wrong purpose.

— Tasneem Hameed

Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land…

— Eduardo Galeano

I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.

— Steve Bannon

We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

— Damian Lewis

When I did 'The Tudors,' there was massive information available and a ready-made market.

— Michael Hirst

We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here…

— Jean Plaidy

“The Tudors hated to be wrong, and therefore never were.”

— Jeane Westin

The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

“Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.”

— Anne Boleyn

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

— Judith Jamison

It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is…

— Hilary Mantel