Author of quotes: Roberta Jellis. Page 2

Perhaps it is natural for some people to believe that since I have an heir, I will smear his path with blood. I probably would have done that for Arthur's sake, but blood doesn't make the road smooth, it makes it slippery.

The problems will not become less serious if they are postponed.

People can be led astray by a few wicked people who have played on their fear. Some thought that in the future I would treat them harshly and unfairly because in the past they were on the side of my enemy. It's not true. The past is the past. All Englishmen, Northerners and Southerners, from the east or from the west, are perceived in my heart equally as my subjects. So this time I demonstrated mercy and loving forgiveness. This time! But the innocent and guilty need to know that mercy is not a weakness, and what was once seen as stupidity will not be considered stupid again.

Rain cannot stop a real Englishman who was born wet, baptized wet and usually drowned if he left his country.

You're playing a very dangerous game, sir.
When I was six years old, Edward called me to the court. If my mother had taken me, I would have died. When I was fourteen, my uncle ran with me to Brittany, and we landed right in the teeth of a storm that promised to drown us. When I was eighteen, Edward offered me my current wife as bait and sent two killers for me. When I was twenty-six, Richard bribed Landois to kill me or send me here to bloodshed. I don't count the killers who tried to kill me and failed. So what did you say about the danger?

“That’s not true at all, sire. At least you do not lose your temper when you ask for the moon, and I bring you a silver plate.

The stability of the kingdom is nothing more than a thin crust of ice over the stormy streams of riots.

The king's body was as much an instrument of politics as his mind.

Alcock called him "a second Jesus, a passionate, unshakable warrior, called to bring with him a golden age," Parliament greeted him standing. After all, he really set out to bring about a golden age, if only his efforts could contribute to it. He hoped that he would not need to show himself as a warrior, for war never brought gold.

I married England, although no, more than that, I became England, he thought. - This land and I are now one. If it prospers, so will I prosper, and if the body of the country is torn apart, blood will flow out of my body.

It often happens that the most sworn enemies do more good to a person than his best friends.

Parliament is an institution that no king can neglect.

Citizens also crowded around, shouting cheers as a sign of approval of the mayor's words and throwing flowers. Henry was relieved, for Londoners tended to remain silent with a sullen look or to express their disagreement more vigorously by using stones and garbage. Someday, Henry pondered darkly, it might be his destiny, but today they loved him.

- No, - Heinrich answered, smiling, - I am only wiser than my predecessors. What good is it to take a horse and a sword from a man who is deprived of everything? Pick up a few coins from the village squire, who will then turn into a beggar and intriguer? The king must defeat his enemies, and the common people of England are not his enemies.