Joan Boyle

Joan Boyle may refer to:

  • Joan Naylor (1529–1586), mother of Richard Boyle
  • Joan Apsley (1578–1599), first wife of Richard Boyle
  • Lady Joan Boyle (1611–1657), fourth daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork

Famous quotes containing the words joan and/or boyle:

    And that good Joan whom Englishmen
    At Rouen doomed and burned her there,—
    Mother of God, where are they then? . . .
    Francois Villon (1431–1465)

    Logic, reason, disease, and the menace of death, these things meant nothing at all to us. We were committed to other values by which the poet has always lived in defiance of all that society demanded of him.
    —Kay Boyle (1903–1993)