Henry Viii/final Years - 1540%e2%80%931547

Famous quotes containing the words viii, final and/or years:

    “I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.... I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.”
    —Edward VIII (1894–1972)

    “Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very moments of most zealous discord because humankind will never be able to live and work without this consoling delusion of its ascent into morality, without this dream of final and ultimate accord.”
    —Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    “Though her years were waning,
    Her climacteric teased her like her teens.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)