Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

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

Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.