"Bring Up the Bodies" Quotes
"Bring Up the Bodies" follows Thomas Cromwell's ruthless pursuit to secure the downfall of Anne Boleyn and elevate Henry VIII's new love interest.
historical fiction | 412 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
You must not betray your king's secrets, you must not betray your own.
Men do not easily assume the task of opposing their ruler's will and it is perilous to oppose it openly in a tyrant's presence.
If they are to be loved, they are to be loved for their works; and the king's works are his laws and his judgments.
If you step out of line, you will be whipped, or worse; and what is worse, no one will speak up for you.
I do not see why the past should not be altered. I do not see why the past cannot be altered.
The world is not run from where he thinks. Not from his border fortresses, not even from Whitehall. The world is run from Antwerp, from Florence, from places he has never imagined; from Lisbon, from where the ships with sails of silk drift west and are burned up in the sun.
Silence makes the mighty seem mightier, the weak more weak.
The king is not a man to suffer contradiction.
A prince should not be seen to travel in the same ship as his subjects; it makes them anxious.
These are no longer the times for you to be a woman and a scholar, both.
