Other Boleyn Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Anne Boleyn

#5. Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.

JoAnn Spears

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

Anne Boleyn

#7. Gina sat with the extremely quiet Tanberk on one side and Rebecca

Darcie Boleyn

#8. 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

#9. If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.

Philippa Gregory

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Anne Boleyn

#13. 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

#14. A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident.

Hilary Mantel

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Anne Boleyn

#21. For poor taste in husbands, her judgment rivaled Anne Boleyn's.

Meredith Duran

#22. I was born to be your rival,' she [Anne] said simply. 'And you mine. We're sisters, aren't we?

Philippa Gregory

#23. My new world is etched in diamonds and sealed in gold, drowning in pretension.

Dawn Ius

#24. Anne Boleyn is certainly the most exciting character I have played on stage.

Lydia Leonard

#25. Because she is my sister, and therefore one-half of me.

Philippa Gregory

#26. There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

Natalie Dormer

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.

Anne Boleyn

#31. She's a Boleyn and a Howard,"I said frankly."Underneath the great name, we 're all bitches on heat.

Philippa Gregory

#32. Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.

Anne Boleyn

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Just a little off the top!"- A. Boleyn

Robert Lynn Asprin

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

Anne Boleyn

#38. 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

#39. Love overcame reason...I had rather beg my bread with him than to be the greatest queen christened.

Carolyn Meyer

#40. 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