Kindlehighlight Quote by Jean Plaidy

“Henry of England had all the virtues and all the faults, and solved the contradiction by making scapegoats and sin-eaters of half his entourage.”

— Dorothy Dunnett

“I hope they will not come upon us now. King Henry: We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.”

— William Shakespeare

“Henry stirs into life. “Do I retain you for what is easy? Jesus pity my simplicity, I have promoted you to a place in…

— Hilary Mantel

“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.”

— Petrarch

“The more Henry though about the shabby old knickknacks, the forgotten treasures, the more he wondered if his own broken heart might be found…

— Jamie Ford

“Although Henry’s death was obviously imminent, his own physicians were afraid to tell him he was dying because they could be arrested for treason…

— Sylvia Barbara Soberton

“They had grown up on shame; it was the nutrient of their soil.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“I have learned that for me, shame is like kryptonite. It was utterly destructive, a boot on my neck for most of my life.…

— Laura Parrott Perry

“Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.”

— Horace

“Kings were always the last to feel the famine.”

— James S.A. Corey

“Henry,that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them.”

— Jason Jack Miller

“And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither…

— Anonymous