When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.

Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.

When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.