Top 61 Boleyn Quotes
#1. There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
Natalie Dormer
#2. Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.
Lydia Leonard
#3. People ask me if I think Anne Boleyn was a feminist ... but she wasn't striking out on behalf of women, and she wasn't particularly keen on them.
Lydia Leonard
#4. Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.
Kris Waldherr
#5. Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
Natalie Dormer
#6. When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.
Jean Plaidy
#7. She steeled her spine. "Like Boleyn to the chopping block."
Anna smirked. "Queen of England, are we?"
Mara shrugged. "Something to aspire to.
Sarah MacLean
#8. He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right."
"Who is Mark?"
"A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer."
Gregory says, "Did you not know?
Hilary Mantel
#9. I think you underestimate how closely I studied the life of Anne Boleyn. Don't be fooled by my Byzantine-loving exterior.
Dahlia Adler
#10. Only during courtship might a woman briefly gain the upper hand, as both Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour did, but woe betide her if she did not quickly learn to conform once the wedding-ring was on her finger. The
Alison Weir
#11. And then the sword came down like a flash of lightning, and then her head was off her body and the long rivalry between me and the other Boleyn girl was over.
Philippa Gregory
#12. She was a kinswoman of the queen, a member of the most powerful family in England. A Boleyn.
V.E. Lynne
#13. For poor taste in husbands, her judgment rivaled Anne Boleyn's.
Meredith Duran
#14. He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself.
Hilary Mantel
#15. Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
Natalie Dormer
#16. She's a Boleyn and a Howard,"I said frankly."Underneath the great name, we 're all bitches on heat.
Philippa Gregory
#18. In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it's Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it's crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors. It's climbing and climbing. Then a sudden abrupt fall - within days.
Hilary Mantel
#19. Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?...
...My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all.
Judith Claire Mitchell
#20. Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.
JoAnn Spears
#21. a royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms but those he permitted her. Without him, she was nothing. Queens
Alison Weir
#22. Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.
Lydia Leonard
#23. The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.
Alison Weir
#24. In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.
Alison Weir
#25. A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident.
Hilary Mantel
#26. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
Anne Boleyn
#27. The king greeted the document (the Collectanea) not so much as a drowning man greets a straw but as he might a rescue party from outer space.
Eric Ives
#28. For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.
Hilary Mantel
#29. I took piano lessons when I was real little. And you know ... I hated it.
But by the time I was in junior high, I had some kind of knowledge of the keyboards. In my very early years I played keyboards and bass.
Anne Boleyn
#30. I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
Anne Boleyn
#31. The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
Anne Boleyn
#32. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
Anne Boleyn
#33. If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.
Anne Boleyn
#34. 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.
Anne Boleyn
#35. For I am in love. For the first time in my life, utterly and completely, I have fallen in love, and I can not believe it myself.
Philippa Gregory
#36. 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.
Anne Boleyn
#37. When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
Philippa Gregory
#38. The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.
Joanna Denny
#40. In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
Anne Boleyn
#41. Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
Philippa Gregory
#42. For a fair maid of England hath told me
That the crows are departed the Tower.
So I'll seek for my bailiwick elsewhere,
Sniffing out some new dungheap of power.
Paul Christensen
#43. O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
Anne Boleyn
#44. Jane," I said quietly.
She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer.
"Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying."
"If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.
Philippa Gregory
#45. My new world is etched in diamonds and sealed in gold, drowning in pretension.
Dawn Ius
#47. Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?'
More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.
Philippa Gregory
#48. I didn't care whether or not it was acceptable to mainstream society to be in a rock band. This is what I wanted to do.
Anne Boleyn
#49. I had a radio show at the local college and I got kicked off the air and banished forever for playing music from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie because (quote-unquote) "They were gay." So, things have changed quite a bit.
Anne Boleyn
#50. To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.
Anne Boleyn
#51. I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?
Philippa Gregory
#52. But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously.
The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
Philippa Gregory
#53. If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.
Philippa Gregory
#54. I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
Philippa Gregory
#55. If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.
Anne Boleyn
#56. Love overcame reason...I had rather beg my bread with him than to be the greatest queen christened.
Carolyn Meyer
#57. 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.
Anne Boleyn
#58. Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.
Anne Boleyn
#59. Going out on the road as a 14- or 15-year old and playing clubs with 20-year old guys was just not acceptable.
Anne Boleyn
#60. Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.
Anne Boleyn
#61. Gina sat with the extremely quiet Tanberk on one side and Rebecca
Darcie Boleyn
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