They were seated at the banquet side by side, immediately good friends, their great attraction being that each of them knew there was nothing to fear from the other.
Jean PlaidyStichwörter: feelin-sentimental
Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!
Jean PlaidyNature 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 PlaidyWhat a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!
Jean PlaidyWhen More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.
Jean PlaidyHer 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 PlaidyHe 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 PlaidyShe took his hand and kissed it fervently. "I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.
Jean PlaidyHe had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid--or, if he did, he liked it.
Jean PlaidyIs is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.
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