Mary Boleyn/sister%e2%80%99s Rise To Power

Famous quotes containing the words boleyn, rise and/or power:

    “Toll on, thou passing bell;
    Ring out my doleful knell;”
    —George Boleyn (d. 1536)

    “May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “Don’t you see what my power does for me? I could sit in on the councils of kings and dictators. It makes me king. It makes me—Nemesis.”
    —Lester Cole (1904–1985)