I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
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.
Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.
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.
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch. It's going to be pornography, 'Sex and the City,' or maybe funny videos of cats.
The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect.