54 Quotes About English-history

As the Charters themselves stated, in return for the concession of the liberties, everyone in the kingdom granted the king a fifteenth of their moveable property.

Invention, after lying fallow for centuries, was to bloom again with the suddenness which can turn a desert into a riot of lupine overnight.

In spite of poor government and the strife it produced, England was merrie.

Public memory is short and public taste sups avidly on sentiment.

The fact is, just as Anne’s contributions towards the reign’s triumphs should not be overlooked, so she cannot be absolved from her part in less praiseworthy events. The idea that Anne was hopelessly weak and ineffectual, and constantly imposed on by others does not stand up to scrutiny.

Tudor historians were fond of reminding their readers of the horrors of the Wars of the Roses, recounting how the realm had been plunged into the vicious civil war over a disputed crown that lasted more than thirty years.

Virgil had no difficulty in believing that God has visited the sins of Henry IV upon his descendant, Henry VI, yet he did not explain how this was to be reconciled with the triumphant career of Henry V.

Tudor historians were adept at rewriting history.

Self-interest usually governed political loyalties.