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)

    What dire offence from am’rous causes springs,
    What mighty contests rise from trivial things,
    I sing—
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man’s power in the world.
    Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)