Murder Most Royal Quotes

“What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wander away from her, let him dally with others--it would but be to compare them with his incomparable queen.”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal