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periwimkle
favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 19 2010, 9:20 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 19 2010, 9:20 PM EST
does anyone have a Tudor quote to share:;
I`ll start:
"here is no jewel be it of never so rich a price which I set before this jewel.....I mean love." Elizabeth I 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    

Reggie19
1. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 19 2010, 9:45 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 19 2010, 9:45 PM EST
I have a few from the series, but not all of them spring to mind right now:

"I mean, who isn't married?" - Thomas Wyatt
"A poet is the least of my sins, you may take my confession after supper" - Thomas Wyatt (followed by a very amused comment from Cromwell - "I wouldn't if i were you, it will turn your hair white!")
"You can't have three people in a marriage, why can't you see that?" - Anne Boleyn
"What given, he can take away, and what taken away, he can give back!" - Anne Boleyn (in reference to Henry VIII)
"Here's the truth, you must shut your eyes, and endure, like your betters have done before you" - Henry VIII
"AND DON'T YOU KNOW, THAT I CAN STRIKE YOU DOWN, AS QUICKLY AS I RAISED YOU!" - Henry VIII
"Serious things always have a funny side" - Thomas Wyatt
"Everything in life is ridiculous, and to presume otherwise is human vanity" - Mark Smeaton
"If you could read Greek, Master Smeaton, you would know that even the Gods have problems with their wives!" - George Boleyn
"Master of the Bedlam Hospital for the insane? Do you plan to visit it? I don't mean as an inmate!" - Thomas Wyatt (in reference to George's recent inheritance)
"Perhaps i've never explained myself properly to you... while to you, and to others, i have attacked the supertitious cults surrounding relics, the crawling to the cross, the veneration of priests. I have no interest in reforming them... no, my real, my only interest, is in destroying them" - Cromwell (i know that isn't the quote properly, and in full, but its late, and i'm tired =P )
"15 pounds? For one stroke? Damn, he makes a damn good living" - Cromwell (in reference to paying the headsman) 2  out of 3 found this valuable. Do you?    
MsSquirrly
MsSquirrly
2. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 19 2010, 10:19 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 22 2010, 11:13 AM EST
From 'the Tudors' series - my favourite or memorable quotes are on this page :

http://tudorswiki.sho.com/page/Memorable+Quotes+from+the+Tudors

From history, Elizabeth certainly said a lot of memorable things, I think the one I like the most is :
"I have no desire to make windows into mens souls"
which showed a religious tolerance that had never before been seen by a Monarch. 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
jrmslady09
jrmslady09
3. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 19 2010, 10:37 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 19 2010, 10:37 PM EST
Reggie your second pick I have to agree with that one and quite a few of your faves are mine as well!!

"I don't think are you mad thinking is dangerous but, I'll wink" - Will Summers
"Aren't you the King of England" - Lady Jane Seymour
That's two of my faves i will think of a few more and post later!! 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    

periwimkle
4. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 19 2010, 11:14 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 19 2010, 11:14 PM EST
i would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. Elizabeth I 1  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?    

periwimkle
5. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 19 2010, 11:18 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 19 2010, 11:18 PM EST
If they`ve broken into a wine cellar, then they can go no further. We`re a marvelous people, we English, we cannot hold our liquor. Elizabeth I 1  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?    
Elliemental
Elliemental
6. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 5:30 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 5:30 AM EST
When Peter O'Toole playing Pope Paul, signs the Papal Bull prohibiting the enslavement of the native Americnas: "The fact is, Campeggio, that the Kings of Europe have power, but no morality. I must act as thier conscience. They are my wilfull children, and I thier Father leading them a long the path of righteousness..........So help me God!" 3  out of 5 found this valuable. Do you?    

Reggie19
7. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 7:42 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 7:42 AM EST
"When Peter O'Toole playing Pope Paul, signs the Papal Bull prohibiting the enslavement of the native Americnas: "The fact is, Campeggio, that the Kings of Europe have power, but no morality. I must act as thier conscience. They are my wilfull children, and I thier Father leading them a long the path of righteousness..........So help me God!""
Oh, i just remembered another one by Peter O' Toole "You and i have done well Campeggio to avoid the craft of women, celibacy is an immense relief". 2  out of 4 found this valuable. Do you?    
jrmslady09
jrmslady09
8. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 10:06 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 10:06 AM EST
Good one and I found that one to be rather amusing actually!!! Considering that so many chose not to avoid the craft of women,but, then again what is so bad about women anyway? 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
henry's7thwife
henry's7thwife
9. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 11:05 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 11:05 AM EST
There shall be but one mistress here and no master - Elizabeth I to Robert Dudley 1  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?    

periwimkle
10. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 11:15 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 11:15 AM EST
There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well. Elizabeth I 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
Kittywake09
Kittywake09
11. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 2:15 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 2:15 PM EST
Cardinal Wolsey

"If I had served God as diligently as I have the done the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs", 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    

Imponthenet
12. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 2:43 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 2:43 PM EST
"Oh, i just remembered another one by Peter O' Toole "You and i have done well Campeggio to avoid the craft of women, celibacy is an immense relief"."
Isn't it interesting, though, that an episode or two later, we see the Pope presenting his grandson the his council members? I guess he didn't avoid it completely. 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
royalfalcon
royalfalcon
13. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 2:47 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 2:47 PM EST
When I am dead and opened you shall find Calais written on my heart. Mary 1st 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
Elliemental
Elliemental
14. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 3:00 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 3:20 PM EST
I'm going to go wildly off topic here, but I was watching "The Virgin Queen", with Hans Matheson playing Robert Devereux. His mother, Lettice Knollys turns around to him and says; "The best part of you was left running down my legs the day you were born." Such a sublime insult! :D 1  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?    
royalfalcon
royalfalcon
15. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 3:14 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 3:14 PM EST
"I'm going to go wildly off topic here, but I was watching "The Virgin Queen", with Hans Matheson playing Robert Dudley. His mother, Lettice Knollys turns around to him and says; "The best part of you was left running down my legs the day you were born." Such a sublime insult! :D"
Hi Ellie

Don't you mean Robert Devereux not Robert Dudley ( he was married to Lettice Knollys).

I can't have such a thing said about my sweet Robin lol 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
Elliemental
Elliemental
16. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 3:18 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 3:18 PM EST
"Hi Ellie

Don't you mean Robert Devereux not Robert Dudley ( he was married to Lettice Knollys).

I can't have such a thing said about my sweet Robin lol"
God, I always get confused between those two! Yeah, lol, I meant Devereux, the earl of Essex 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
Elliemental
Elliemental
17. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 3:20 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 3:20 PM EST
Post edited! :D 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
royalfalcon
royalfalcon
18. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 3:25 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 3:25 PM EST
"God, I always get confused between those two! Yeah, lol, I meant Devereux, the earl of Essex"
It is easy to get them confused - they were both Roberts, both favourites of Queen Elizabeth 1st and both handsome!! 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    

Reggie19
19. RE: favorite Tudor quotes
Feb 20 2010, 3:34 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 20 2010, 3:34 PM EST
"Isn't it interesting, though, that an episode or two later, we see the Pope presenting his grandson the his council members? I guess he didn't avoid it completely."
Was that child his grandson? I don't recall him announcing him as such? 0  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
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