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)

    From this fat dungeon I could rise to skin
    And human title, putting pig within.
    Thom Gunn (b. 1929)

    By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
    C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)