If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.

King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus receive my soul.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement.

While I’d like to believe in the possibility of a love that doesn’t involve denial, I haven’t seen an example yet.

Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.

We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."