20 Quotes by Anne Somerset

I go out an honest man, but you stay in a rogue.

I had rather live in a cottage with you than reign empress of all the world without you.

The princess reiterated to Sarah that "her faithful Morley . . . will never part with you till she is fast locked in her coffin.

So ended . . . a royal friendship which once could not be contained within the common bounds of love.

Sitting still all summer . . . was the height of my ambition.

I am apt to think she was too artful to rail at me, but rather pretended to have a kindness for me, and like Iago gave, as she saw occasion, wounds in the dark.

Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards.

I hope in the next world I shall be at ease, but in this I find I must not expect it long together.

From now on Anne saw herself as someone indelibly marked by suffering. Her letters to Sarah often ended with an allusion to her tragic history of bereavement, for she took to signing them "your poor unfortunate faithful Morley.