Catholic Quote by Peter Padfield

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know.…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“From Venice to Rome, Paris to Brussels, London to Edinburgh, the Ambassadors watched, long-eared and bright-eyed. Charles of Spain, Holy Roman Emperor, fending off…

— Dorothy Dunnett

In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than in any…

— Charles William Chadwick Oman

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

— William John Wills

“NO PEACE TREATY WAS REACHED at Bruges because the English were determined to retain their former possessions in France under their own sovereignty, while…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“By the time of Mary’s second French betrothal, Henry was already beginning to doubt the validity and the usefulness of his marriage to Catherine…

— Charles River Editors

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always…

— Vanessa Kirby

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

— Stephen Gardiner

“Late in the 16th centurt, William Cecil's son, Thomas reortedthat Philip had said that 'whatever he suffered from Queen Elizabeth was the judgement of…

— Alison Weir

I thought she was just the Queen and he was Prince Philip, and that was just who they were, without thinking about them as…

— Claire Foy

For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the…

— Susan Brigden

A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and…

— Linda Colley