“People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.”

“Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)”

“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”

“But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.”

“Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.”

“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”

“When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.”